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Social Media - The New Breed of Media Moguls
Social media, as suggested by its name, is characterized by its social aspect. The methods used for distributing social media content almost always involve a community or, at the very least, some form of interpersonal exchange. Social media also encourages feedback from viewers or receivers of the media in an almost conversational manner, as opposed to the one-way methods employed by traditional broadcast and print media. Read more »
Blogs: The Digital Diary
Blogs are basically online journals, maintained and updated by any number of individuals or groups. Content in blogs is predominantly text, although bloggers have been known to include other forms of media. The popularity of blogs has skyrocketed in recent years because of the greater availability of internet access and the creation of many free blog hosting services. Read more »
An Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a method of adding styles (such as font, font color, font size, spacing) to a collection of web pages or documents. The primary benefit of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is that they save the web designer time. If implemented correctly, stylesheets allow the designer to make global formatting changes to their site simply by editing one file. Read more »
The World Wide Web Untangled
The World Wide Web is an information space where items of interest (resources) are identified by Uniform Resource Identifiers, or URI’s, which are global identifiers. Most people think that the World Wide Web is synonymous with the Internet; however, the WWW is a service that operates over the Internet. Read more »
Web Usability: Organizational Benefits
The term ‘web usability’ refers to the features of a website that determine how easy it is to use. Usability is important for all types of websites and can be improved through the use of usability testing. While large companies have been know to invest millions of dollars in usability testing, organizations of any size can benefit from testing and even do so inexpensively. Read more »
Professional Web Design Associations and Organizations
There are many benefits to joining trade associations or organizations including professional development and networking. Professional associations often provide newsletters, magazines, and web sites with information on current industry trends. Many associations also offer online classes, training seminars, and national trade shows. Read more »
Expression Web - Microsoft’s New Standard for Web Design
Expression Web is a professional web design tool to create modern, standards-based web sites. Replacing Frontpage, Microsoft's popular WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web editor, Expression Web competes more directly with other professional web design applications such as Adobe's Dreamweaver and GoLive. Read more »
Dreamweaver vs FrontPage
There are two leading WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editors on the market available to help you design your web site. They are: Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver. Read more »
Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) Certification
What is a Certified Internet Webmaster? What is the value of the CIW Certification? The CIW (Certified Internet Webmaster) program is the world's largest and fastest-growing Internet certification. CIW is a comprehensive information technology certification for the knowledge economy, with specific job roles and vendor-neutral content covering multiple hardware and software vendors. Read more »
Outsourcing: Choosing the Right Web Designer
Tips for choosing the right web designer for your business. While many people are capable of building a web site, you want to look for someone with demonstrated experience. Does the web site designer have references? You want a web designer not only with the technical knowledge necessary to design a web site for your business, he or she should also posses a knowledge of your industry. Read more »
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