Blog: A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is
a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function
as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and
links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.[MORE]
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): In web development,
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe
the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most
common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but
the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG
and XUL.
CSS is used to help readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and
other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable
the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup
language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation
can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control
in the specification of presentation characteristics, and reduce complexity
and repetition in the structural content. CSS can also allow the same
markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering
methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based
browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. CSS
specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more
than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called
cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules,
so that the results are predictable.
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Liquid
Format: (Also called liquid layouts) adjusts to fit the browser's width—whatever
it may be. Your page gets wider or narrower as your visitor resizes the window.
While this kind of design makes the best use of the available browser window
real estate, it's more work (more costly) and on very large monitors, these
types of designs can look ridiculously wide. [source:
CSS The Missing Manual]
Fixed Format: (Also called fixed layouts) is
the preferred choice by designers. Regardless of the browser window's
width, the page content's width remains the same. In some cases, the
design clings to the left edge of the browser window, or, more commonly,
it's centered in the middle. [source: CSS
The Missing Manual]
Flash: Flash technology has
become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web
pages; Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various
web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently,
to develop rich Internet applications.
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Framesets: Each frame
displays a different HTML document. Headers and sidebar menus do
not move when the content frame is scrolled up and down. For developers
frames can also be convenient. For example, if an item needs to
be added to the sidebar menu, only one file needs to be changed,
whereas each individual page on a non-frameset website would have
to be edited if the sidebar menu appeared on all of them.[MORE]
HTML: (HyperText Markup
Language), is the predominant markup language for web pages. It
provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information
in a document — by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs,
lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive
forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the
form of tags, surrounded by angle brackets.[MORE]
SEO (Search Engine Optimization):
is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to
a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic")
search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site
is presented in the search results or the higher it "ranks", the
more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different
kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific
vertical search engines.
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