Thaidoweb 2008

Why hire a designer or a programmer?
You might ask this question yourself when there are 100s of easy to build software on the internet. But building a website yourself and a professional designer makes a lot of difference. The designer put in years of expertise in building your website. He knows all the web standards as well as a professional look after it is done. Apart from that business owners dont find time and patience in maintaining and promoting the [...]

Once you’ve written a web page, you can upload it to an HTML
validator. This site, run by the web’s standards body, will
check that your site is valid (‘correct’) HTML, and give you
some idea of how to fix it if it isn’t. This is an essential
step in the development of any website – as vital as running
your text through the spell checker – but whenever I recommend
it there’s always someone who wonders why it’s so important.
Well, here’s why.
You Know Your Code [...]

Welcome to our website; unless of course youre
blind, dyslexic, using a screen reader, magnification software,
text-based browser, webTV, cell phone, or PDA, running Linux,
Unix, BEos, Solaris, OS2 or FreeBSD, or havent updated your
browser in the last year or so. Youre not important to us.

Is that a message youd proudly display on your company
homepage? The truth is, if youre not using web standards, this
is what youre saying to roughly 20% of internet users.
I know youre probably asking what are web standards? Well,
web [...]

Are you a web owner? Are you wondering why your site is not
doing very well in the e-community in spite of your glamorous
web designs? Arent you making any money at all? If all your
answer to these questions is YES then its high time you sit
back and examined in what aspect of your web site you have made
a mistake.
There are certain consumer facts that should be considered in
conceptualizing the designs for your web site. Take for
instance, the fact that [...]

Why your business benefits from adhering to the web
standards
Web standards are created to give benefits to the developer and
the visitor. As a business, your website must be accessible,
usable, attractive and convey a message of trust and
professionalism. Getting this right can be both expensive and
difficult if done outside of the W3 standards.
Let’s look at the main benefits of web standards.
Accessibility
Valid XHTML and CSS will ensure that a site is constructed in a
way that seperates the content from presentation.
There are huge [...]

For those not familiar with CSS Hacks, they are ways of using styles/classes that only apply to particular browsers. They are used to overcome the display problems mentioned previously by exploiting CSS structure and code. Most involve simple punctuation tricks to fool the problematic browser into accepting a different style to the browsers that display correctly.
CSS Hacks work, but there are two main points to consider.
Firstly, the validity of the CSS may be affected. Invalid CSS hardly seems worthwhile as [...]

Hire a designer or a programmer for your website is a daunting for any business entrepreneur. Remember that youre the important part of a design process. It is your decision makes the final outcome or success of a website. Your website is a one which works better and sells your products and have good feel for the visitors.
Why hire a designer or a programmer?
You might ask this question yourself when there are 100s of easy to build software on the [...]

Your web site should always adhere to standards!

A professional web site designer will provide you with a standard compliant web site that is cross-browser supported.
What does this mean to you? Why should you care? Any site that isn’t standard compliant can “break” in older browsers, or simply not display at all in, say, text-based browsers. If you are a small business, this could be the difference between a conversion and a lost sale. That potential customer [...]

Web standards is the new buzz phrase on the web. What are web
standards? Web standards are basically the use of correct web
coding standards as laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C). The web standards which are of most concern to modern
business are XHTML and CSS coding practices. In the words of the
W3C, “The XHTML family is the next step in the evolution of the
internet.”
In order to achieve appealing presentation it used to be the
case that various HTML hacks [...]

The History of tables
Before tables came along, the web was a pretty dull place. Using
tables for layout opened up new vistas of possibilities of
visually “designing” a page. It could well be argued that table
based layout was responsible for the popularity of the web and
the field of web design.
Worse still, over the last few years, table based layout has
come under severe criticism and was widely demonized. Web
purists claim that tables were never meant for layout so one
shouldn’t use them for [...]