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The start of a new web design and development project is probably the most important step in the entire lifecycle of the project. Get it wrong here and the project is going to struggle, believe me. This forum intends to discuss some vital aspects of the early project phase.
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The scope statement may well include the following information.
Strategy - Deliverables - Assumptions - Scope Management - Roles and Responsibilities - Budget - Change Management - Sign-Offs - Communication. So now, where to begin?
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Even with the right planning designing a site is still a massive undertaking and fraught with pitfalls. Once again starting with the basic underlying principles of what we are trying to achieve will help a great deal at this stage of the project.
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Establishing the goals for your project is vital for the future success of a Web Development and resulting Web Site. Critical Success Factors need to be identified and acted upon.
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Information Architecture is a complex subject area> However by getting to grips with the fundamentals of page and site design we can use this 'tool' to greatly improve the web pages and sites we build.
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Web Site accessibility is the process by which a website is made usable to all visitors, including those with disabilities, such as impairments of sight, hearing
or tactile deficiency.
Under UK law (the Disability Discrimination Act), all non-personal websites must be made accessible to all. This is widely believed to mean meeting a minimum of Priority 1 of the W3C guidelines.
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For those unfamiliar with accessibility issues pertaining to Web page design, consider that many users may be operating in contexts very different from your own.
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A Series of Extracts from Version 1. of the W3C Recommendations on Web Site Accessibility. Released on 5th May 1999 and which is still the 'working' Version.
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More than just design 'comps', color schemes, typography and the layout of text and graphics. Site Design encompasses SEO and a host of other disciplines if we're going to get it right first time!
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Cascading Style Sheets
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.
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Workarounds for the common browser rendering bugs.
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EXtensible HTML is a markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. Over the years, HTML coders have become sloppy, because Web browser software was originally written to tolerate many variations in HTML coding. With XHTML, coders must conform to the rules.
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Performance issues of: Web Site, Web Page, Web Server, Web Application, Web Graphics.
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Performance Optimisation tips and tricks, workarounds, methods and procedures.
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1 | 1 | 4 years 9 weeks ago by Bob |
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Guidelines from one of the experts in the field
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1 | 1 | 4 years 1 week ago by Bob |
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Overviews of the Top Ten CMS and some a little less known. Some on the list so far include 'Drupal' (of course), 'B2Evolution', Mambo, Wordpress and that beast 'Moodle'. In some cases we may get into a little more detail in describing the workings of these systems.
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b2evolution is an advanced web log tool (software) allowing the creation of blogs, news feeds and photo galleries. The software is free and distributed under a GNU General Public License and can be downloaded for installation on a private server (unlike the blog you might create on, say the 'Blogger' website.
Current features include: Advanced browsing (paged, calendar, categories, search etc), Extended & multi-paged posts, Image/file upload & management, Multiple and sub-categories, Draft and quick publishing, RSS & Atom feeds, Automatic pinging of blog directories, Skins and Themes, Plugins.
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Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is used in a variety of web sites including: Community web portals, Discussion sites, Corporate web sites, Intranet applications,Personal web sites or blogs, E-commerce applications, Resource directories, Social Networking sites. Drupal is an Open Source System and is a registered trademark of Dries Buytaert.
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Issues, Repairs and Workarounds
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1 | 1 | 4 years 10 weeks ago by Bob |
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Listing any Drupal Implementation Issues and Tips. If you know of a particular problem or workaround.
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Drupal user warning are generated when an SQL or PHP error occurs.
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2 | 2 | 4 years 8 weeks ago by Bob |
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Moodle is a 'course', as opposed to a 'content', management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.
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