Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a term describing a stylesheet language used to control the presentation of a page written in HTML or other markup language.
Like other web-related standards and languages, CSS was introduced and is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Magic Web Solutions blog has been created to answer questions frequently raised by our current and prospective clients, and also to create a knowledge base that many website owners will find useful.
If you have established an online presence, developed a web application or other software for your business - or are thinking of doing one of those things - it’s quite possible that you or your colleagues will be trying to stay abreast of the latest Internet trends: e.g., Web 2.0, Social Networking or blogging.
If you run an email marketing campaign and don’t ever want to be marked as a spammer, it is very important to comply with the highest industry standards. Keeping your mailing lists clean, by regularly removing invalid email addresses, is one of the most important tasks for any email marketer.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Sounds boring. No…worse than that, it sounds like something only the geeks in your IT department talk about, regularly dropping it into their conversation alongside talk of ‘RAM’, ‘CPUs’, ‘Gigabytes’ and ‘Hypertext Transfer Protocol’.
Let’s cut to the chase: these are the reasons we moved away from PHP and focused on Java, as we developed more complex applications:
1.PHP is an interpreted language (the same is true of Python and Ruby, incidentally), Java is a compiled one. The nature of Java allows us to find many of the errors at an early stage, which makes an application more stable. Some simple errors in PHP code can be found only during application testing or even after release.
Online social networking is a modern phenomenon that has become widespread with recent developments in Internet and Web technology. Online social networks are also often referred to as “virtual communities”, which is an extension of the traditional definition of a community. Unlike a traditional community, the virtual one can comprise people living in different geographical locations.
Podcasts are media files (usually audio or video) distributed online. Their location is made known via a standard RSS (or Atom) feed, which makes it possible to subscribe to particular podcasts and receive updates automatically. Apart from downloading and then listening to them on user’s PC or media device, you can access them as audio/video streams directly from the server that is hosting them.
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a relatively new web discipline (about 10 years old), with standards and rules still evolving. As it concerns search engines, and search engines are ever-changing entities, so the rules of SEO are constantly changing, becoming more and more sophisticated.
Interface usability is a very important factor for both a standalone application and a dynamic website. If the application provides useful and sophisticated functionality, but the users can’t figure out how to use it, this application will never be popular.
Among the basic usability principles, the following are most often cited by usability experts: simplicity, consistency, understandable language, accessibility and good means of control of the current status.
Why is it important to make your HTML code compliant with the accepted standards? There are several reasons to that.
In the earlier days of the Internet, the majority of websites were coded with no standards in mind. As long as they looked more or less acceptable in browsers, nobody bothered to check the code and verify proper nesting of tags. It was also quite common to use tables for controlling layout, which is very easy and often works even if the HTML of the site looks like “tag soup”. Of course, sometimes an attempt at adding more content to the website resulted in having the layout of the website totally broken, but it was often fixed by adding yet another nested table. It added to the code bloat, but nobody cared.