Web Design Technologies

 Web designers use a variety of different tools depending on what part of the production process they are involved in. These tools are updated over time by newer standards and software but the principles behind them remain the same. Web graphic designers use vector and raster graphics packages for creating web formatted imagery or design prototypes. Technologies used for creating websites include standardised mark up which could be hand coded or generated by WYSIWYG editing software. There is also proprietary software based on plug-ins that bypasses the client’s browsers version, these are often WYSIWYG but with the option of using the software’s scripting language. Search engine optimisation tools may be used to check search engine ranking and suggest improvements.
Other tools web designers might use include mark up  and other testing tools for usability and accessibility to ensure their web sites meet web accessibility guidelines.

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Peroids of Webdesign

In 1996, Microsoft released its first competitive browser, which was complete with its own features and tags. It was also the first browser to support style sheets, which at the time was seen as an obscure authoring technique. The HTML markup for tables was originally intended for displaying tabular data. However designers quickly realized the potential of using HTML tables for creating the complex, multi-column layouts that were otherwise not possible. At this time, as design and good aesthetics seemed to take precedence over good mark-up structure, and little attention was paid to semantics and web accessibility. HTML sites were limited in their design options, even more so with earlier versions of HTML. To create complex designs, many web designers had to use complicated table structures or even use blank spacer .GIF images to stop empty table cells from collapsing.CSS was introduced in December 1996 by the W3C to support presentation and layout; this allowed HTML code to be semantic rather than both semantic and presentational, and improved web accessibility. In 1996 Flash (originally known as FutureSplash) was developed. At the time it was of a very simple layout basic tools and a timeline but it enabled web designers to go beyond the point of HTML at the time. It has now progressed to be very powerful, enabling it to develop entire sites.

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History of PHP

PHP was conceived in 1994 and was originally the work of one man, Rasmus
Lerdorf.

PHP is an Open Source project, which means you have access to the source code andcan use, alter, and redistribute it all without charge.PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page but was changed in line with the GNU recursive naming convention (GNU = Gnu’s Not Unix) and now stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed specifically for the Web.Within an HTML page, you can embed PHP code that will be executed each time the page is visited.Your PHP code is interpreted at the web server and generates HTML or other output.

• Used to create dynamic web pages
• server-side scripting language
• Embedded in HTML
• parsed into HTML on the server

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HTML | HyperText Markup Language

 

 

 

 

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) enables you to mark up text so that it canfunction as hypertext on the Web. The term markup comes from printing; editorsmark up manuscript pages with funny-looking symbols that tell the printer how toprint the page. HTML consists of its own set of funny-looking symbols that tell Webbrowsers how to display the page. These symbols, called elements, include the onesneeded to create hyperlinks.

HTML and HTTP were both invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who was then working as acomputer and networking specialist at a Swiss research institute. He wanted to givethe Institute’s researchers a simple markup language, which would enable them toshare their research papers via the Internet. Berners-Lee based HTML on StandardGeneralized Markup Language (SGML), an international standard for marking up text
for presentation on a variety of physical devices.

 

 

 

 

By 1996, many Web experts were worried that HTML standards were spiraling out of control. The newly founded World Wide Consortium, hoping to keep at least some kind of standard in place, tried to standardize existing practices, including the use of presentation and structure.

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Open Sources ERP Softwares

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate internal and external management management information across an entire organization – embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application. The purpose of ERP is to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organization and manage the connections to outside stakeholders.

ERP systems can run on a variety of computer hardware and network configurations, typically employing a database as a repository for information.

ERP Importance :

1. Accounting is the fundamental basis of all business activity.
2. ERP has accounting in the backend and supply chain in the fore.
3. Supply chaining means non redundancy and automation to the whole process.

Open Sources ERP Software:

1. Open Source has now moved higher the value chain to encompass business enterprise applications.
2. Focus on business solutions and independent of other Open Source utilities such as Linux, Apache and MySQL.
3. Highly complex to implement as ERP in itself is complex.
4. Shall compete with proprietary ERP Software such as SAP, MS Navision, Oracle Financials and JD Edwards.

Examples of Open Source ERP:

• Compiere ERP/CRM
• OpenERP
• OpenBravo ERP
• ADempiere Bazaar
• Dolibarr ERP/CRM
• Erp5
• Pentaho (BI)
• SugarCRM (CRM)
• Xtuple postbooks
• webERP

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Stepping Of Web Design

 In 1989, whilst working at CERN Tim Berners-Lee proposed to create a global hypertext project, which later became known as the World Wide Web. Throughout 1991 to 1993 the World Wide Web was born. Text only pages could be viewed using a simple line-mode browser. In 1993 Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, created the Mosaic browser. At the time there were multiple browsers however the majority of them were Unix-based and were naturally text heavy. There had been no integrated approach to graphical design elements such as images or sounds. The Mosaic browser broke this mould. The W3C was created in October 1994, to “lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.”This discouraged any one company from monopolizing a propriety browser and programming language, which could have altered the effect of the World Wide Web as a whole. The W3C continues to set standards, which can today be seen with JavaScript. In 1994 Andreessen formed Communications corp. That later became known as Netscape Communications the Netscape 0.9 browser. Netscape created its own HTML tags without regards to the traditional standards process. For example Netscape 1.1 included tags for changing background colours and formatting text with tables on web pages. Throughout 1996 to 1999 the browser wars began. The browser wars saw Microsoft and Netscape battle it out for the ultimate browser dominance. During this time there were many new technologies in the field, notably Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, and Dynamic HTML. On a whole the browser competition did lead to many positive creations and helped web design evolve at a rapid pace.

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