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| What is Web Design? |
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Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of technologies (such as markup languages) suitable for interpretation and display by a web browser or other web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
The intent of web design is to create a web site (a collection of electronic files residing on one or more web servers) that presents content (including interactive features or interfaces) to the end user in the form of web pages once requested. Such elements as text, forms, and bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs) can be placed on the page using HTML, XHTML, or XML tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. Plug-ins are also embedded into web pages by using HTML or XHTML tags.
Improvements in the various browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance of XHTML and XML in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements. The latest standards and proposals aim at leading to the various browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing plug-ins.
Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic.
Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a human (web master or programmer) manually updates the page.
Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on the end-user’s input or interaction or changes in the computing environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) Content can be changed on the client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Actionscript, media players and PDF reader plug-ins, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (PHP, ASP, Perl, Coldfusion, JSP, Python, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.
With growing specialization within communication design and information technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics of all web-based services. |
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- .NET
- The .NET framework created by Microsoft is a software development platform focused on rapid application development, platform independence and network transparency. .NET is Microsoft's strategic initiative for server and desktop development for the next decade. According to Microsoft, .NET includes many technologies that are designed to facilitate rapid development of Internet and intranet applications.
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- ASP
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Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. It was initially marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, but has been included as a free component of Windows Server since the initial release of Windows 2000 Server. Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functionality useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 2.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Web pages with the ".asp" or ".aspx" extensions use ASP, although some Web sites disguise their choice of scripting language for security purposes.
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- CMS
- a content management system (CMS) is a system used to organize and facilitate collaborative creation of documents and other content. A CMS is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles.
- HTML
- In computing, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a hypertext markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. HTML is used to structure information denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists and so on and can be used to define the semantics of a document.Originally defined as a highly simplified subset of SGML, HTML is now an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000). The HTML specification is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- CSS
- In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markuplanguage. Its most common application is to style webpages written in HTML and XHTML,but the language can be applied to any application of XML, such as SVG or XUL. The CSS specifications are maintained by the WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C).
- PHP
- PHP is a popular open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, other software. The name is a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".
- XML
- The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages. It is a simplified subset of SGML,capable of describing many different kinds of data.Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, RDF, RSS, MathML, XHTML and SVG) are defined in a formal way, allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form.
- CRM
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) purpose is to enable organizations to better serve their customers through the introduction of reliable processes and procedures for interacting with those customers. A successful CRM strategy is usually implemented through a software package designed to support these processes.
- OLAP
- OLAP is an acronym for online analytical processing. It is an approach to quickly providing the answer to complex database queries. It is used in business reporting for sales, marketing, management reporting, data mining and similar areas.
- ERP
- Enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) are management information systems that integrate and automate many of the business practices associated with the operations or production aspects of a company. These typically include manufacturing, logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping, invoicing, and accounting.
- SCM
- Supply chain management (SCM) deals with the planning and execution issues involved in managing a supply chain, such as demand planning, order promising, production and distribution planning and production scheduling.
- WAP
- Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication, for example Internet access from a mobile phone.
- J2EE
- Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is a Standard for developing distributed Multi-tier architecture applications, based on modular components. It uses several technologies, including JDBC and CORBA, and extends their functionality with Enterprise Java Beans, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages and XML technologies.
- PSA
- Professional Services Automation is used when describing software which allows an organization to manage people and skilled resources.
- PLM
- Product Lifecycle Management describes the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from the concept and design phase, product analysis (Finite Element Analysis) through production planning, visualization and marketing to the end of life of a product.
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