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		<title>Facebook Disconnects Google Friends Connect</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/facebook-disconnects-google-friends-connect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 21:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook cites violation of its terms of service as grounds for blocking Google&#8217;s Friend Connect from accessing social network&#8217;s members&#8217; data.

Friend Connect violates Facebook&#8217;s terms of service because it &#8220;redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users&#8217; knowledge,&#8221; Facebook official Charlie Cheever wrote on the company&#8217;s blog for developers.
&#8220;Just as we&#8217;ve been forced [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facebook cites violation of its terms of service as grounds for blocking Google&#8217;s Friend Connect from accessing social network&#8217;s members&#8217; data.</p>
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<p>Friend Connect violates Facebook&#8217;s terms of service because it &#8220;redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users&#8217; knowledge,&#8221; Facebook official Charlie Cheever wrote on the company&#8217;s blog for developers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just as we&#8217;ve been forced to do for other applications that redistribute data in a way users might not expect or understand, we&#8217;ve had to suspend Friend Connect&#8217;s access to Facebook user information until it comes into compliance,&#8221; Cheever wrote.</p>
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		<title>Domain Name Registration Of All Popular Top-Level-Domains - Hostway</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/domain-name-registration-of-all-popular-topleveldomainshostway-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 20:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Page Domain Names]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Domain Name Registration of all popular Top-Level-Domains - HostwayHaving your own domain name is the first step to building an online presence. We make your domain name registration or domain transfer process quick and simple.
domain - WiktionaryThe translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Domain Name Registration of all popular Top-Level-Domains - Hostway<br />Having your own domain name is the first step to building an online presence. We make your domain name registration or domain transfer process quick and simple.</p>
<p>domain - Wiktionary<br />The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those
<p>Domain-Names-Etc.com    Low domain names,    domain transfers, web   <br />Pay less domain names.    Register your .com, .net and .org domains. Bulk pricing and private domain name registration options. Web hosting and email accounts available.</p>
<p>Domain Registration and Management<br />Let our Domain Names    consultants help you choose, register and manage your domain portfolio for your online business. Lynter.net offer a superior service to   We   </div>
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		<title>I Remember When</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/i-remember-when/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 17:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a trip down memory lane.&#38;nbsp; Enjoy and add your own memories.
I remember when:

$20 / Hour sounded like a lot of money
DBML was replaced by CFML
216 colors of mostly nasty yellow, green and blue
A REALLY expensive TV was $500
Perl was the most popular way to write &#8216;back end&#8217; code for a website.&#38;nbsp;
Web hosting was local [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a trip down memory lane.&amp;nbsp; Enjoy and add your own memories.</p>
<p><strong>I remember when:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>$20 / Hour sounded like a lot of money</li>
<li>DBML was replaced by CFML</li>
<li>216 colors of mostly nasty yellow, green and blue</li>
<li>A REALLY expensive TV was $500</li>
<li>Perl was the most popular way to write &#8216;back end&#8217; code for a website.&amp;nbsp;</li>
<li>Web hosting was local and profitable</li>
<li>Your ISP lived nearby</li>
<li>ASP became the most popular solution</li>
<li>IHTML was packaged with Website Pro (or something like that)</li>
<li>Homesite was for still for sale</li>
<li>Spam was funny</li>
<li>Online Journals were just called online journals and nobody cared about traffic and readership</li>
<li>A splash page was &#8216;hot&#8217;</li>
<li>Newspapers still mattered</li>
<li>Cable news still mattered</li>
<li>Viruses just tried to destroy your computer rather than take it over</li>
<li>All of my clients sent me email one day saying &amp;quot;I Love You&amp;quot;</li>
<li>Ruby On Rails was thought to be perfect</li>
<li>I weighed 20 pounds less and had more hair</li>
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		<title>Definite Host</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/definite-host/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 17:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know why DefiniteHost is one of the top rated hosting servers in the world then you will have to look at the fact that they are 100% debt free. Now, you may be asking what that has to do with you? Well, the truth is the reason why so many other [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to know why DefiniteHost is one of the top rated hosting servers in the world then you will have to look at the fact that they are 100% debt free. Now, you may be asking what that has to do with you? Well, the truth is the reason why so many other companies have to charge so much is because they are trying to pay off their loans of getting started. Thus, you are the one left holding the bill. However, DefiniteHost has been in business since 2002, and they are here to give you the lowest prices that you can get anywhere on the web today.</p>
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<p><strong>DefiniteHost Hosting Features</strong></p>
<p>There are a lot of great features that you get from DefiniteHost. One thing that you have to look at to understand how great their features is at most web sites. The fact is that most web sites only take up about 10MB of space. DefiniteHost is going to give you 500MB of space to put your web site on! That means that you are going to have fifty times the amount of other sites. On top of that you are going to get 25GB of bandwidth a month, which is more than what other sites use over the span of many months. To top it off you are going to get free email forwarding. There is no limit to the number of emails you can forward.</p>
<p><strong>DefiniteHost Support</strong></p>
<p>If you want to talk about great support then you have to look no further than DefiniteHost. They offer 24 hour live support for all their customers. That means that no matter what time it is or where you are located in the world, there is always going to be someone on the other end of their chat line to make sure that you get the help that you need. After all, when it comes to your web page you should be able to get help when you need it.</p>
<p><strong>DefiniteHost Reliability</strong></p>
<p>There are two main reasons why you should trust the reliability of DefiniteHost host. First of all, they have a 99.9% up time, meaning that your web site is going to be down less than those other guys. Second, they have a 30 day money back guarantee, meaning that you can try their system first. If you do not like it, in 30 days you get all of your money back! Now that is a promise that not everyone offers.</p>
<p>Overall, DefiniteHost is a great web hosting provider that is going to be able to answer all the questions that you have when you have them. They are going to strive to make sure that you get all the support you need for your web site. This is one of the only web sites that cares more about your own web site than what you do! So do not waste your time with the other guys, go with the company that cares about your needs.</p>
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		<title>DK Is Doing What Nuffnang And Other Blog Advertising Networks Should Have Done</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/dk-is-doing-what-nuffnang-and-other-blog-advertising-networks-should-have-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 17:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DK has just created a simple banner you can put on your blog to raise awareness how you can help with the earthquake in China.  You can see it on the left of this post.  I think it is a great and sincere idea.  
I wonder why the blog advertising networks didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DK has just created a simple banner you can put on your blog to raise awareness how you can help with the earthquake in China.  You can see it on the left of this post.  I think it is a great and sincere idea.  </p>
<p>I wonder why the blog advertising networks didn&#8217;t do this.  Think about it.  Nuffnang has a placeholder image on all blogs that currently don&#8217;t have any adverts to display.  It wouldn&#8217;t have been that hard for them to have switched those images and link to the Red Cross page.  It would have generated a lot of goodwill and also proved their worth.  I mean, if you are a blog advertising network, won&#8217;t you actually be in the best position to galvanize the blogosphere for a worthwhile cause?  Unless of course your ads and ad space inventory doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s not go there.  For now.</p>
<p>You can grab the code over at DK&#8217;s blog.  In case you are having trouble inserting the code, note that you might not be able to just copy and paste what he has on his blog.  You need to change the quotes as well as remove the blank spaces.</p>
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		<title>Open Question: I Need Help Making A Website?</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/open-question-i-need-help-making-a-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok so i work for a mobile Hawaiian Shave Ice place, My boss has been running it for 15+ years and has never gotten a website. He offered me 200 bucks if i could design one, with links to the menu, health certificates and stuff like that. We also want links to a page showing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok so i work for a mobile Hawaiian Shave Ice place, My boss has been running it for 15+ years and has never gotten a website. He offered me 200 bucks if i could design one, with links to the menu, health certificates and stuff like that. We also want links to a page showing his mom&#8217;s business(Baloons, costumes and party supplies) and his   inflatable thinks you jump around in!).Now i can make little websites like for guilds on  world of warcraft, or myspace(I&#8217;m good at that). But making an actual domain is a problem, i need links to tutorials, all the help you can give! Im not talking like 5 lines of BS, i want the real deal! Thank you so much. We will have all pictures of the carts and what not by the end of the year. I appreciate all answers, best answer = 10 points!!!<br />
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		<title>RE DESIGNS - Quality Custom Web Sites</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/re-designsquality-custom-web-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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What We Do:
We design all aspects of your site. We build all of your logos and graphic webdesigns for your site ourselves. We receive your email for specific updates to yoursite, we maintain your site for you and take care of all aspects of your sitesmanagement, at one great price.
We provide you with a 10 [...]]]></description>
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<p>What We Do:</p>
<p>We design all aspects of your site. We build all of your logos and graphic web<br />designs for your site ourselves. We receive your email for specific updates to your<br />site, we maintain your site for you and take care of all aspects of your sites<br />management, at one great price.</p>
<p>We provide you with a 10 page web site, 5 email addresses with your site. All you<br />have to have is an idea for which we can then create a site for you, using that idea<br />and incorporating your sites title into your sites web address. We provide you with<br />a simple high quality, custom designed web site, at fair and reasonable pricing.</p>
<p>Pricing for our basic sites:<br />No Hidden Costs, Ever!</p>
<p>Our flat price to design your basic site is $125.00, included with your site is a WordPress Blog, it may be controlled by you the client, solely after it has been built.<br />Our monthly Web Hosting fee is $12.95 per month, due on the anniversary date to which you purchased your new site.<br />To pay for one to three pages or updates of any kind 1-25 updates, the flat price will be $50.00, the update charges will not start until after your site has been initially built.</p>
<p>Basic Site<br />Description</p>
<p>We will custom design your web site for you, manage and maintain it, all at fair and<br />honest pricing. We will also, design your logos and graphic web designs for your site at the same price.<br />Once your initial payment is received, we will email you and find out your sites color choices, your desired<br />site title, variations or grouping of choices for your sites URL and the particular information you wish for<br />your sites to consist of.  Within two weeks we will have your site up and running on the Internet. There are<br />basically only two requirements needed from you, after your original purchase. For the record, we will only<br />build Moral and Legal web sites for others, we will not except funds from anyone wishing to have us build<br />sites that of a hate nature, porn, discriminatory or illegal in any manor. We are a Christian owned and<br />operated site.</p>
<p>These are as follows:</p>
<p>First: Simply to email us with any updates to which you&#8217;d like added monthly to your site.<br />Second: Keep up with your monthly payments, so that there will be no interruption in your sites<br />service.</p>
<p>10 page web sites, with 5 email addresses</p>
<p>Fair and honest prices</p>
<p>High quality custom designed web sites</p>
<p>We can add audio or video to your site.</p>
<p>We can add images to your site.</p>
<p>We look forward to doing business with you and pray that you&#8217;ll consider<br />hiring us for your web site needs.</p>
<p>After the initial build of your site, we will be updating sites, twice monthly.</p>
<p>Sites we build, will only have our logo at the bottom of each page, they are<br />guaranteed, Ad Free.</p>
<p>Our Site - RE Designs, has Ad&#8217;s throughout the site because we have<br />placed all of these Ad&#8217;s within our own site for the benefit of our visitors.</p>
<p>No Hidden Costs, Ever!</p>
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		<title>Beamhost Review</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/beamhost-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beamhost is a company that is not happy with just being good, they want to be the best. They are the leading UK provider of web hosting on the internet. Beamhost is one of those companies that is going to put your priorities first meaning that you are always going to get the best possible [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beamhost is a company that is not happy with just being good, they want to be the best. They are the leading UK provider of web hosting on the internet. Beamhost is one of those companies that is going to put your priorities first meaning that you are always going to get the best possible service. Although they offer great service, the thing that they pride themselves in the most is their outstanding customer service. At Beamhost they have the motto, <i>If your not happy, their not happy.</i></p>
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<p><strong>Beamhost Hosting Features</strong></p>
<p>The best thing to look at before you sign up with any web hosting company is their web hosting features. Web hosting services are the goods that you will be paying them for. Hosting features change from company to company so it&#8217;s important to keep a close eye on everything they offer. However, it seems like Beamhost has more to offer than most of the other sites. For example, you can get 1500MB of storage space and 50GB of monthly data transfer free for 14 days. With that you also get a free front page extension, as well as full protection for your email accounts (which means you get spam and virus protection). These are deals that you are not going to find anywhere else.</p>
<p><strong>Beamhost Support</strong></p>
<p>In the end, there is one area that Beamhost shines in more than any other site, and that is their support. You can reach them by normal mail, email, and phone. However, most people choose to reach them by phone, because they have an amazing staff that is going to be there to help you every step of the way. When they are talking to you on the phone it&#8217;s not like they are talking to a customer. It&#8217;s like they are talking to a friend, and that makes you feel good. After all, you would never talk down to a friend, and Beamhost is never going to talk down to you.</p>
<p><strong>Beamhost Reliability</strong></p>
<p>Reliability is an important thing to look at whenever you are thinking about signing up with a web hosting service. When you sign up with Beamhost you can rest assured that their servers are being monitored very closely to avoid any big problems. In fact, their emergency response team is possibly the best in the industry. They monitor their up time very frequently, and also have it monitored independently by Alertra. This means you get double the safety, which is something most sites can not offer.</p>
<p>There are many reasons to choose Beamhost over the other web hosting companies. However, the best way to find out if Beamhost is right for you is to try it free for 14 days, and see what you think of it. By doing this you will get a first hand look at how great this company really is. Do not be fooled by the other guys that offer you empty promises. Go with a company that truly does care about your needs.</p>
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		<title>Affordable Web Design - Web Designing Tips For You</title>
		<link>http://www.pageminder.com/2008/05/19/affordable-web-designweb-designing-tips-for-you-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A website&#8217;s success is very much dependent on web pages you design. It&#8217;s been seen that beginners are not much successful first time when it comes to website designing. New enthusiastic website designers generally design poor web pages and thinks they have done a good job. Just thinking those pages are ready to upload doesn [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A website&#8217;s success is very much dependent on web pages you design. It&#8217;s been seen that beginners are not much successful first time when it comes to website designing. New enthusiastic website designers generally design poor web pages and thinks they have done a good job. Just thinking those pages are ready to upload doesn t make so. The reason they think they have done a good job generally because they are the one who have design that stuff, In most cases-  first time . Like all areas of expertise, designing a webpage also requires a fair amount of practice. So guys never under estimate the power of practice, it does make perfect and the more time you design you will get better and better on your craft.</p>
<p>We are not trying to discourage you but it s almost impossible to design a perfect website on your first attempt. Actually you can expect this miracle only if you are a very good observer and ready to follow the same path of experts. Of course, there are other ways to achieve this. Say, by using a user friendly templates or getting an experts help.<br />You can t ignore this-Even by reading this article! It would not be a bad idea to follow our tips and advices to achieve great results while designing your web page</p>
<p>If you are from the group of people who still thinks more graphics and more colours will make a great website, we would like to discourage you. In a standard style of designing that would be a completely wrong advice for anyone. Please understand the value of space. When it comes to designing a web page, less is always better. Stay away from adding lot of strange fonts and thousands of colours; that will put your visitors off and will also give jarring effect on eyes. Think how much loading time it will increase for your web page. A general observation says that most people get distracted and bored after 10 seconds of uploading. Most people hate to wait and get impatient very easily.</p>
<p>Think about the most popular websites for a second. Take Google for an example. It has more plain background than any other website; still it is the most popular search engine in the world. Now take a look at its features:<br />     lots of empty space (white space)<br />     a beautiful logo<br />     few links in blue <br />     And a search box</p>
<p> That s it! More people will agree on point of simplicity when it comes to design better web pages. We can give plenty of examples for this. eBay, hotornot.com and papal are just some of these websites following the same path. </p>
<p>Some thorough tips for making great looking WebPages: </p>
<p> Using more frames and background music is never a good idea, follow the same rule when it comes to colour.</p>
<p> Layout lines are desirable to be simple. </p>
<p> Font colours should not exceed more than two or three max. Any kind of overuse is a strict no-no. <br /> Flaming taxes, animated GIF images will kill the beauty of your webpage.</p>
<p> Be sensible while you apply a contrast between webpage background and colour of the text and vise versa. </p>
<p> Deciding about the font size? Don t overlook the thumb rule of balance, too big or too small fonts will not do any good to your website. </p>
<p> Verdana and Arial are the widely used fonts because they look just right on your computer screen. </p>
<p> Making very wide website is a mistake you should not do. Better test it on multiple sized screens and even on several screen resolutions</p>
<p>Keep the above points in mind while you are designing your webpage, remember that great design is not much better than better design but it s always good to aim for better design because it is better than the average one. Don&#8217;t forget, webpage designing is important but not more than content. It s content of your website that is making your website famous and successful.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behind the scenes we&#8217;ve kicked off the design of the website that will surround the National Broadband Map. This is an interesting part of any web project and can be a welcome diversion from the more technical aspects. This is where we are creating the look and feel of the website, it&#8217;s where we&#8217;re working [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Behind the scenes we&#8217;ve kicked off the design of the website that will surround the National Broadband Map. This is an interesting part of any web project and can be a welcome diversion from the more technical aspects. This is where we are creating the look and feel of the website, it&#8217;s where we&#8217;re working out how to best communicate information around the mapping application and it&#8217;s the stage where we make sure we have an accessible website and adherence to web standards.</p>
<p>We can break this part of the project into four parts, that may appear separate but are all dependent on each other. The component parts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Information architecture</li>
<li>Visual     Architecture</h3>
<p>When you visit a website you expect to find the information you want and when you do you probably don&#8217;t notice how easy it was, you&#8217;ll probably notice when you can&#8217;t find what you want leading to frustration and annoyance. Good information architecture in this context is about constructing and presenting the data to the user in a meaningful, logical and intuitive way to avoid that frustration and annoyance and more importantly to make the website more usable and relevant to the user. With the web we can&#8217;t pick our audience, but we can identify it and we&#8217;re very aware that we can have a wide and varied audience with the National Broadband Map from central and local government, to network suppliers to a curious New Zealand public to developers; we&#8217;re covering Grandmas to geeks. We need to make the information relevant and navigable to these audiences and this is where information architecture comes in.</p>
<p>There are a number of outputs from the information architecture process these include a site map, a navigation structure and wire-frame diagrams of the website outlining where content components are to go.</p>
<p>The sad thing is if we do a great job of the information architecture you probably won&#8217;t notice. If we get it wrong you will.</p>
<h3>Visual Design</h3>
<p>Visual design is the look of the website, it takes some of the outputs of information architecture and pulls them together into a design, it&#8217;s not about making the website visually stunning, it&#8217;s about making the website more usable in a visual way. As human beings we think visually and we look for visual cues to help us use websites, good visual design provides these cues. Part of it is ensuring the website is visually attractive but more importantly its about communicating in a visual way and making it easier for a user to traverse the website.</p>
<p>The outputs from the visual design phase include the graphics and logos for the site, some iconography to help identify demand points (for the mapping part of the website) and a more complete design of all pages, we now know what colours will be used, what graphics will be used, how wide the web pages will be and where individual content elements lie on the pages. We&#8217;ll have three &#8217;styles&#8217; of pages; the home page, section pages and detail pages.</p>
<h3>CSS/HTML Production</h3>
<p>HTML and CSS are where we bring the the visual design into the web so as it works with your web browser.</p>
<p>CSS, or cascading style sheets, define the look and layout of the site. They tell the web browser where to put everything and how to make it look, they tell the web browser to put the banner at the top and the footer at the bottom, they tell the browser what colour and size the headings will be, what font the text will be and how the menus behave.</p>
<p>HTML, or hypertext markup language, is where we put our content, it&#8217;s the information we display on the website. The way that we are applying HTML deals specifically with content, we don&#8217;t define they way anything looks within HTML, we only define what the content is. We will define that an item of text is a heading but it is the CSS that defines what the heading looks like.</p>
<p>A great demonstration of how CSS can change the entire look of a website can be found at CSS Zen Garden, under the &#8217;select a design&#8217; menu you can select a design and see the entire look of the website change. The HTML and hence content isn&#8217;t changing, only the CSS.</p>
<p>There are very good reasons why we use the combination of CSS and HTML in this way when we could build the entire site in HTML and not even use CSS. Here&#8217;s why: </p>
<ul>
<li>Ease of site management - we can change the the look and layout of the website by changing the CSS rather than changing every single page. If we need to create a new page, we only need to create content, not design.</li>
<li>Accessibility - separating content from layout makes the content more accessible. Not every user will be using a common browser, some may be using tactile braille machines, screen readers or text only browsers, the content will render much more effectively when the HTML contains only content rather than content and layout.</li>
<li>Editors of the site can concentrate on writing content rather than defining its layout.</li>
</ul>
<p>The outputs of the CSS/HTML stage are some text files, some with a .css extension and some with a .html extension.</p>
<h3>Technical Integration</h3>
<p>This is where we pull everything together, we need to get the CSS, HTML and images on the web-server and in the right place so our content management system can read them. We need to make sure everything is working and working as it should across a range of browsers, unfortunately not all web browsers behave the same.</p>
<p>The output of the technical integration is a functioning website that looks and behaves how we want it to.</p>
<p>Post from: In Development</p>
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