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Introduction

Every so often, you get offered a behind-the-scenes look at the cogs and fan belts behind the action. Today’s your lucky day. I’m going to usher you behind the scenes of one of the hottest technologies that you might already be familiar with: the World Wide Web. Cue theme music.

This article covers the underlying technologies that power the World Wide Web:

• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Web servers and web browsers
• Static and dynamic content

It’s all pretty fundamental stuff—while most of what’s covered here won’t help you to build a better web site, it will give you the proper language to use when speaking with clients and with others about the web. It’s like a wise nun-turned-nanny once said in The Sound of Music: “When we read we begin with ABC. When we sing we begin with Do Re Mi.”. In this article I will briefly look at how computers actually communicate using HTTP and TCP/IP, then go on to look at the different languages that go together to create the web pages that make up the Internet.

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Tags: asp.net, coldfusion, CSS, dynamic websites, php, static websites

The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008

Since the Internet emerged as a major force, altering everything from the way people work to the way they date, it has been a roller-coaster ride that made the world giddy. Microsoft ,   Netscape,  et al. fought the browser wars, Web standards were championed, and the Web became community-minded and social, ushering in the reign of Facebook, Flickr, and You Tube. From boom to bust and back again, with staggering amounts of money changing hands at every point, the online industry rides on with no end in sight.

The Net has also attracted prophets, gurus, theorists, and evangelists of every stripe. Many of their promised game-changing technologies—Jini, DHTML, and countless others—never panned out, while seemingly simple innovations—metadata, XML, and CSS—have led to major breakthroughs. Meanwhile, Web design vogues from the effervescent jumble of HotWired to the stark utility of Google have continued to evolve and become more contradictory—and entrenched.

To try and make sense of it all, BusinessWeek.com canvassed a broad range of Internet luminaries to discover the design rules they live by right now. Contributors ranged from the guru of Web usability, Don Norman, co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, to the design director of NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh, and John Maeda, president-elect of the Rhode Island School of Design. These 10 commandments of Web design for 2008 are the combined results of our survey. For the full list of contributors, see the end of the story.

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Tags: Apple, CSS, DHTML, Facebook, Flash, Flickr, Google, internet, smart Web sites, top online designers, Web, Web 2.0, Web Design, Web standards, XML, YouTube

Our website showcased on CSS Based, a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.

What are Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?

Cascading Style Sheets describe how documents are presented on screen in the browser. CSS separates the presentation from the content. Changes to the presentation can be made in the style sheet and the changes are automatically reflected throughout the whole document.

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Tags: Cascading Style Sheets, CSS, CSS based, W3C, website

And here it is.. It was just a matter of time before we upgraded our old blog to one run on Wordpress. After all we’ve been offering this kind of blogs for quite some time now to our customers - it was about time to make the switch ourselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: bespoke design, CSS, Web Design

We’re proud to present our lates creation - inspiritlondon.com

Inspirit London works together with employers to promote employee health and wellbeing, providing exceptional quality massage at their workplace. OMdeSIGN prepared a bespoke design of the new website and company logo followed by company stationery. Built into the site is extended contact form with built-in spam prevention filter. The whole website has been created using HTML/CSS programming and is written up to W3C standards.

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Tags: bespoke design, CSS, html, logo, stationery, Web Design