Importance of high-end web design and search engine optimization cannot be ignored and disregarded. In fact both have their own importance and at any cost the company or the individual involved in Internet marketing should have a good and appealing website as that is considered as the effective and persuasive online portfolio of the individual or the company. Once you have developed this you can explore more and more strategies to enhance and sustain your business’s overall objectives related to marketing.

The website represents the company, sells its name, attracts more visitors, creates further business leads, promotes sales and services and so on. If you too want to prepare a website that is well designed and attractive and at the same time easy to navigate and full of relevant information, you should contact a company that works on professional web design projects. There are companies that will take the whole and sole responsibility of promoting your business and services.

In fact whether it is designing of the website or SEO content development the main intention is to attract visitors and generate more and more traffic so that it promotes sales and the concerned business. For this you need to select company that offers high-end web services and uses a state-of-the-art content management system to fulfill your dreams and aim. In fact this system is a collection of procedures that is applied to manage the workflow in a mutual environment.

There are web designing companies that make use of the latest technologies and they make sure that their designers use creative approach to design unique and specific website up to your satisfaction. They also assure to bring your website to the top rank of all the search engines and distribute your products or listings throughout the Internet world. There are companies that work for specific regions like Boston Internet marketing service, Boston web design or Boston SEO company and so on. Now it is up to your requirement and desire what you choose.

However the Internet is filled with lots of services and before dealing with any of them, you should get assured of the legitimacy of the company. This is important, because there are lots of fake individuals and Spam companies spread on Internet and to look for a genuine one, one needs some time, effort and research work. Look for an authentic service provider that deals with varieties of businesses and has a successful track record. It is also important that it gives you 100% satisfaction regarding the service and helps you promote your business as well.

After a long delay I finally found some time to write a new post. This time about CSS. I believe may people will find these tips useful, not only the beginners but also some experiences programmers since there is no limit to perfection

BTW most of the professional CSS editors have built in font collections. Enough of notepad programming already

Hello Everyone,

css

After a long delay I finally found some time to write a new post. This time about CSS. I believe may people will find these tips useful, not only the beginners but also some experiences programmers since there is no limit to perfection

1. Use global resets

Global reset is used for more or less similar website rendering in the different browsers. Different browsers have different default values for various elements. Global resets help you fight with these issues.

2. Differentiate id and class in elements

Id attribute specifies that this element is all alone – unique, for example there is only one header on a website. Class however describes a few elements with similar style and preferences.
3. Use short preferences

Using short preferences values is very convenient. Doing so will also reduce you CSS file size.

4. Organize your CSS files

A good alternative to dividing files is better commenting inside the actual files. It makes your code easier to read and edit.

5. Use CSS frameworks and toolboxes

Doing so will help you save time. You can use the existing framewfork or edit it to make it wok better with your project.

6. Avoid redundancy

You all know that tags td (tbody/thead/tr) is only allowed within the table tag. The same goes for li and ui. So instead of:

table td { … }   ul li { … }

you can write:

td { … }   li { … }

This is a very easy case, but I think you got the idea.

7. Don’t overuse !important

This flag raises the priority of the described preference, so if you have a contradiction down below the preference with !important will be prioritized. Some beginners like to abuse !important but remember you can always replace it with stricter inheritance.

8. Differentiate media types

Media types with connected CSS files allow you to correct website rendering on different platforms (monitor, cellphone, printer). Using media types is cross-referenced with using different files, using these will make your website more accessible.

9. Specify multiple fonts

Every time you specify fonts make sure to specify more then one since different platforms use different fonts.

font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

BTW most of the professional CSS editors have built in font collections. Enough of notepad programming already

10. Use tools to check CSS in the browser. it will make your work easier and faster.

I hope everyone found the article useful. I hope it will make your coding better (at least a little)

Please feel free to add more points in the comments!

The rumor has it that the information leaked from the developers themselves breaking the NDA. Official release will be announced on MIX09.

You can download the program here

The preview version only has different IE version and free. The picture provided is for Expression Web 3 and is not a free option.

So once the RSS came around I got rid of that folder. RSS gives you the ability to have access to all of the updates as it comes and then you can actually read it later when you are not connected to Internet.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Adding another site to your RSS reader you get constant updates from those sites.

Why is this useful?

1. It is faster – you will only see the updates without old news, navigation challenges, annoying ads, etc.
2. You will see ALL updates from all of the sites you follow.
3. All news are organized in the same fashion so all the navigation challenges are gone.
4. Saves your time traffic.
5. In order to subscribe you don’t need to give any of your personal information away.

RSS reading through other sites

There are many website that offer RSS reading online. They will collect feeds on one page – so instead of collecting all the information on your local machine you will have other sites collect your information for you and access it when you like.

RSS reading via email

In my opinion it defeats the purpose of RSS and your identity security however there are a few services such as feed my inbox that will send all the updates to you via email.

Receiving RSS using standalone program

FeedDeamon is one of the best programs in my opinion for the fob, however there are tons of programmes these days for all tastes. Most mail agents are doing pretty good job.

If your site doesn’t have the RSS feed

There are still many companies with intensive and constant updates that do not allow RSS subscriptions. This is wrong – and you are loosing readers. Have your web design company implement RSS feed or use services like FEED43 that allows to create feeds from the content updates of your choice.

I want to conclude that RSS has become a big part of the web. If you still don’t subscribe or do not provide I highly recommend to start.

I will list here a few free tools that allow building dynamic graphs in your projects. All of the tools are very easy to tweak.

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1. API Google charts

This service offers many different choices in various diagram building: linear, circular, columnar, Venn’s diagrams, diffusion diagrams and others. Besides, has many parameters for fine tuning of your graphs

2. PHP and SWF diagrams

Using this tool you can create dinamic diagrams. In order for the tool to work you need to have flash and PHP installed.

3. Open flash chart

4. Simile Timeplot

This service is based on DHTML and AJAX. The service allows you to create functional graphs using minimal ammount of scripts on your server.

Enjoy

Alright, let’s go:

1. Smooth color change

Very cool thing, you got to install Colour Animation plugin and code:

$(document).ready( function() {
$(“.mainMenu a, .articleTitle a”).mouseover( function() {
$(this).animate({color: “#cc4e4e”}, {queue:false, duration:250 });
}).mouseout( function() {
$(this).animate({color: “#0e8db7″}, { queue:false, duration:350});
});

});

2. Check all checkboxes of certain object

// context = id of the element checkboxes inside of which we need selected
function checkall(context){
$(“#”+context).find(“input[@type$='checkbox']“).each(function(){
this.checked = checked;
});
}

3. The amount of elements selected

$(‘element’).size();

4. Radiobutton status

var var_name = $(“input[@name='radio_name']:checked”).val();

5. Class switch

$.fn.swapClass = function(c1, c2){
return this.each(function(){
var t = $(this);
(!t.is(‘.’+c1)) ?
t.addClass(c1).removeClass(c2) : t.addClass(c2).removeClass(c1);
});
}

or shorter:

$(‘#element’).toggleClass(’selected’);

6. Check for window size change

function doSomething() {
alert(“I finished changing the window size”);
};

var resizeTimer = null;
$(window).bind(‘resize’, function() {
if (resizeTimer) clearTimeout(resizeTimer);
resizeTimer = setTimeout(doSomething, 100);
});

Well so far this is all I got. If you guys have any snippets you wouldn’t mind sharing, please submit them below! Snippet topic is limited by client-side web applications (JS, CSS, HTML)

Have a great day!

Let’s checkout a fresh useful plugin jQuery – magnify tool.

All you got to go is to make 2 proportional images one of them should be small, another one should be normal sized, html markup, and a small piece of JavaScript code.

It looks like this:

jQuery magnify tool

You can make easy changes:

jQuery magnify tool 1

Tester on:
Windows: IE 6, IE 7, FF 2+, Safari 3.1;
Mac: FF 2+, Safari 3.1.

Some Notes:

* Picture proportions MUST be the same
* If you got a very big picture you can set an event on which the image pre-loading starts (mouseover, click)

HTML

Alright let’s get our hands dirty. HTML is very easy and self-explanatory. Connect jQuery, plugin and mark the images.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />
<title>jQuery magnify tool</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.magnify-1.0.2.js"></script>
<style>
img {
border: 1px solid #CCC;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Subway</h1>
<p>Subway with magnify tool</p>
<h3>Default Settings</h3>
<p><a href="walkmap.gif" id="magnify1"><img src="walkmap_small.gif" /></a></p>

<h3>Modified settings</h3>
<p><a href="walkmap.gif" id="magnify2"><img src="walkmap_small.gif" /></a></p>

</body>
</html>

JavaScript

The first time around we will call the tool with default image loading procedure on mouseover)

<script type="text/javascript">
$("#magnify1").magnify();
</script>

Now let’s make the image load on click and add a few settings.

<script type="text/javascript">
$("#magnify2").magnify({

showEvent: 'click',
hideEvent: 'click',
lensWidth: 60,
lensHeight: 60,
stagePlacement: 'right',
lensCss: { backgroundColor: '#cc0000',
border: '0px',
opacity: 0.5 },
stageCss: { border: '4px solid #33cc33' }

});
</script>

Advanced Parameters

Have a good day!!!