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Understanding Web Development

{ March 26, 2008 @ 9:28 pm } · { web design articles }
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Web development is an extensive description of various actions pertaining to the creation of website for the internet of intranet. This may comprise e-commerce business development, web content development, web design, web server configuration, client-side or server-side coding. Still, according to web experts, web development pertains merely on non-design features of creating websites such as writing markup as well as coding. Web development may begin from creating of uncomplicated static sole page consisting of plain text up to the highly complex web-oriented internet applications, social network services or electronic businesses. To huge corporations and businesses, web development groups may include hundreds of web developers. Minimal organizations may just necessitate for a sole and permanent or contractual web developer, or alternative task associated with the work positions like graphic designer or information systems support.  Web development became among the rapid evolving industries all over the place. The evolution of this business is being ignited by huge industries which want to promote their merchandise and services with their clients as well as to automate business progresses and the advancement of several short web design as well as development corporations. The price of web development and web hosting has marked down gradually today. Rather spending a lot of cash which is the situation for past websites, now, anyone can create a simple website for the cost of lower price, relying on the intricacy and quantity of information. Minor website development organizations are now equipped to create design that is accessible to smaller organizations and individuals that is helping the progress of web development business.  Until the web development tools and the platforms are related, a lot of systems are accessible publicly and free of cost to assist in the development. Such tools and platforms are Linux, PHP, Apache and MySQL which are typically delivered at no extra cost. This thing has showed something to a lot of individuals worldwide who are putting up a brand new web site everyday as well as to add up to the enhanced web development recognition. Another thing that contributes to the popularity of web development software is due to the release of Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Front Page. With the utilization of this software, anyone has the power to create dynamic web pages in just a short period of time. The skills on HTML or various programming is not necessary but may be advisable for excellent outputs. The latest web development tools are employing strong advancement of Linux, PHP, MySQL and Apache  as well as Microsoft.NET technologies in order to administer the website as a medium to make use of applications on the internet. Web professional today assist to distribute applications to be web services that are conventionally accessible application though an offline computer. Rather employing executable code through a local pc, users are connecting through applications on the internet to develop a new content. This has made way for latest methods to communicate and permit various chances to disperse information as well as media delivery. End users now have the capability to access applications coming from various areas, rather than being stocked on a particular location.

How to overcome those annoying css bugs

{ March 26, 2008 @ 6:50 pm } · { web design articles }
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There are a number of different browsers that you must compensate for when designing your webpage’s in any format (CSS, tables etc.), some of the most common browsers are : Internet Explorer 6/ 7, Firefox and Safari. The main issues that arise with CSS design is that all browsers interpret CSS differently, for example Firefox does not understand some of the CSS commands that Internet Explorer does and vice a versa.

One of the main issues I have found when designing with CSS is a problem with margins in Internet Explorer 6. I found that when using a float on a div tag that also had a margin set, the margin would actually double and then knock the whole pages layout out. After numerous late nights and an insane amount of coffee I finally found a solution to this double margin bug. By inserting a simple line of code the double margin no longer double ! That solution is as follows, by adding this line of code to your CSS div tag ‘display: inline’.

Another problem I have found with CSS in Internet Explorer 6 is a problem when trying to define a div tag that has a smaller size than the base font size. This problem again can be fixed with a simple line of code this time all we need to add is the following line of code to the div tag: ‘font-size:0px’. There is also another solution to this problem that should have the same effect, because the div tag auto stretches to compensate for content overflow adding ‘overflow: hidden’ should also resolve the problem.

Unfortunately I have been unable to cover all of the cross browser issues that you may experience when designing with CSS, but most of the problems that you may encounter can be resolved pretty easily with simple trial and error. Happy designing!