DIV v/s Table based design

Filed under: Basics — Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Posted by: Editorial

There has been a metamorphosis in the field of web design and web development ever since the impact of web 2.0 technology. Developers started shifting to more flexible and user friendly techniques which are compliant to web standards.

When we talk about web development, the only thing which strikes many web developers is whether to use divs or tables in their web layouts. Websites that are developed today are more inclined towards the div-based structures rather than a table based structure.

Tables and DIV’s are an intrinsic part of web design. Web developers have decreased the usage of tables and made a gradual increase in DIV usage to reduce the complexity in coding and increase semantic standards in their layouts.

We have made an attempt to discuss some of the common problems encountered in web design. We shall divide the article into 3 major parts and discuss in detail. The first part would give a brief introduction about the design basics of tables and divs. Second shall discuss on CSS and tips on writing clean and semantic code and the final part shall discuss their pros and cons.

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Google OS is coming in 2010

Filed under: News — Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Posted by: Editorial

Great news for the Google lovers, Google is going to launch its first operating system “Google Chrome Operating System” after the successful release of Google Chrome Browser. Finally, the mystery and speculations behind launching the powerful operating system are going to evade. Though Google Chrome browser did not reach a wider audience in terms of downloads and usage, experts say that this operating system is designed to meet the standards of the present era. Their urge to develop an operating system emerged as they think that the present operating systems were designed when there was no web. Intellectuals at Google say that this would be their attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

The official release for the end users would be available in the second half of the year 2010. The initial release of Google Chrome Operating System is targeted at netbooks, it is going to be open-source and consume lesser memory on the computer’s hard-drive. They have published an article on their official blog stating that they are soon going to discuss with their partners and open source community before they announce the authorized release.

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Newsletter and Email Marketing

Filed under: Marketing — Friday, July 3, 2009
Posted by: Editorial

HTML email newsletters are now seen as the latest and the smartest way to promote products presented in a visually appealing manner to the readers and also as a means to advertise a company’s services in a jiffy. Conventional e-mailing may soon be outdated as they get lost among hundreds of similar emails which viewers do not care to even read and just rush to delete them.

HTML newsletters offer various benefits to the companies generating them. Firstly, it helps publishers track the number of e-mails that were opened, forwarded or clicked through which in turn helps them gauge the popularity of their product or know what interests the readers about their products. Plain text may not capture the reader’s attention due to its boring presentation. HTML email newsletters on the other hand have an upper edge in terms of visibility and which distinguishes them from the other promotional emails.

But creating HTML newsletters is not a cake walk and requires careful coding in order to display well in various email software. Let us see what are the problems associated with creating HTML email newsletters and how we can achieve success with the same.

HTML email newsletters do not display the same in all desktop software and web based email services. It is somewhat similar to websites not being compatible with all browsers. Different readers have different ways of reading the emails; they may resize the mails to read them which may again cause a problematic situation. Does it mean that we cannot use HTML newsletters? Of course not! We can once we clear all the obstacles that come on the way. Let us understand the different kinds of newsletter layouts, issues with different email services and how we can alleviate these problems.

Types of Newsletter Layouts:

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About CSS Templates

Filed under: Basics — Friday, July 3, 2009
Posted by: Editorial

CSS templates are templates created using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS helps in keeping content and presentation separate which in turn provides more flexibility to your website. The benefit of using CSS is just endless. You can easily format and style the web pages using CSS. Templates built using CSS successfully pass major browser tests and are also compliant across various platforms.

Most web users use CSS supporting browsers. Thus, you can be assured that your site will look good in Windows, UNIX as well as Mac browsers. Once we complete the template designing process, we run them through various browser tests to ensure better requirement compliance.

You can save a lot of time and work if you use CSS as they provide a default font styling for HTML. So if you want to change your font, you don’t need to change each and every piece of text. Simply, edit the CSS file, which will convey the change to the all the text and links. It is that easy and fast. CSS also uses simple coding which in turn reduces download time and less usage of bandwidth.

CSS templates can easily be edited using web editors like Macromedia Dreamweaver and MS-FrontPage. Other web editors too handle CSS better than HTML code.

It is prove to be a Herculean task to modify the layout of sites built using HTML. But this is not the case with CSS templates. This is because CSS templates make use of blocks in place of tables. This gives the freedom to drag and drop the blocks easily in the HTML editor. In addition, these tags are better understood by JavaScript and other web programming languages.

When you use CSS, it helps you modify your website easily. All templates provided by us are based on w3c.org technologies and standards that make your website more user-friendly.

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Firefox 3.5 is Here!

Filed under: News — Friday, July 3, 2009
Posted by: Editorial

Mozilla Corporation has just launched the fastest Firefox web browser, Firefox 3.5. Developers say that this release is stable, robust and fast in browsing. It has many advanced features when compared to its previous releases and supports new web technologies.

We have made an attempt to highlight some of the interesting and innovative features added by the Mozilla Corporation in this new release.

Speed does matter!

This is considered to be the fastest browser when compared with its previous releases. The results were baffling when they compared the loading time of Firefox 2, Firefox 3 and the latest release Firefox 3.5.

  • Firefox 2.X – 18,148 ms (load time)
  • Firefox 3.0.X – 3,669 ms (load time)
  • Firefox 3.5 – 1,524 ms (load time)

Privacy!

It has enhanced security features to protect your private data. Firefox 3.5 release has introduced “Private Browsing Mode” by which the user can browse websites by surpassing the web history being saved on his/her local machine. This feature was earlier introduced in Google Chrome as “Incognito”. This feature would be helpful to users who use a public machine to browse websites. In this mode, Firefox won’t keep track on browser history, search history or download history. The cookies and temporary internet files will be deleted automatically once the session is closed. In case, if the user wishes to save a website, then the only option would be to save it in bookmarks.

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