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Designing with Web Standards Standards enable you to create sites that will work as well tomorrow as they do today. It also allows you to work seamlessly with XML-based Web services and tools, and can help you stay on the right side of accessibility laws and guidelines. read more: Welcome to Makadco : Web Designing, corporate Identity, Multimed Welcome to Makadco : Web Designing, corporate Identity, Multimed. web design: web designer Makadco is a team of enthusiastic and self-motivated confident professionals who are in market to incorporate the latest trends of advertising and marketing in Pakistan, in particular, and in globe, at large. Our prime services are graphic designing, desktop print advertising, website design development and multimedia interactive CDs. We do have several satisfied partners internationally in these service areas along with local. . . read more: Finding Luggage Restrictions on Airline Sites Airlines post policies on their web sites. Can passengers find the relevant ones?... read more: Finance Sites: Yahoo Leads, Google Lags Google's site has not yet gained the popularity to challenge other financial sites. read more: CSS Vault A gallery of inspirational, CSS-designed sites, as well as many CSS resources. A good place to check out examples of CSS applied to real (commercial) Web sites. New material is added every month, on top of a large archive. read more: Why Most Web Sites Suck Most people making web sites today simply don't know the essentials of design and how to apply them to the web. Hunt, Ben read more: AdsenseReady - 150 AdSense Web Sites. Instantly build your own Google AdSense Empire with 150 Content Web Sites. read more: Official Google statement: Can links to other web sites hurt your rankings? Linking to other web sites can hurt your rankings if you link to the wrong web sites. A Google official has recently commented on bad neighborhood links and how they affect your web site rankings on Google. read more: How to get high Google rankings with Flash sites Flash movies are a great way to add multimedia elements to a web site. Unfortunately, Flash cannot be indexed by most search engines. For that reason, it is very difficult to get high search engine rankings for Flash sites. This article explains how to get top rankings on Google with Flash sites. read more: The Weekly Standards There are plenty of Web design and development sites out there, both personal and professional, with clean, structured markup and standards-based designs. But how often do you see corporate sites doing this? This site showcases a few each month. read more: Plasticpilots: News from all Over Alex has a nice interface here, that aggregates news from a number of design related sites (many of which have resources listed here). He also has a program that features well-designed sites, one anyone can submit entries too. Lots of great stuff at PP. read more: With a Little Help from Your Friends ?Social Sites? are apparently this month?s big thing on the Net. Building networks of friends, both for fun and business, is proving extremely popular and sites like Friendster, Tribe.net, LinkedIn and Meetup are drawing large numbers of visitors. Of course... read more: RSSTop55: Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites If you don't have RSS feeds of your site content, I recommend getting on top of it before you get left in the dust. This marketing tool is quickly become just as important as search engine optimization. This page lists the top submission sites. read more: Bad, bad, pages. Check out the web sites you think suck. Enough suckers to raise your blood sugar to diabetic levels. Bad Web Sites @ Web Pages That Suck. read more: An Introduction To Accessible Web Design Intermediate, 23rd November 2002, Nigel Peck. Making your site accessible to all of it's users is essential, but many sites aren't. In this article we introuduce accessible Web Design and the current initiatives to improve the accessibility of Web sites. read more: 97% of websites still inaccessible United Nations Global Audit of Web Accessibility, conducted by accessibility agency Nomensa on behalf of the United Nations, shows that 97 percent of websites fail to meet the most basic accessibility requirements. One hundred websites from twenty different countries and five different sectors, including travel, finance, media, politics, and retail, were tested. Only three of those one hundred sites passed all Priority 1 checkpoints of WCAG 1.0. Three. A story on the BBC News website, 'Most websites' failing disabled, notes that 93 percent did not provide alternative text for all images, 73 percent relied on JavaScript for important functionality, and 98 percent of the sites did not use valid markup. Sadly, the results do not come as a surprise to me. In fact, they were highly expected. It is a sad fact that most Web 'professionals' still do not even try to make the sites they build accessible. I have performed similar surveys, focusing on Swedish websites, with similar results. Public sector sites are generally slightly better than those in the private sector, but only slightly. A couple of years ago I believed that by now, the majority of people who make their living from designing or developing websites would have realised the importance of accessibility. I was wrong. Unfortunately the majority are simply not interested in creating high quality work as long as they can produce junk and still get paid. Visit site to read or post comments…Add 456 Berea Street to your Technorati favorites. Posted in Accessibility. read more: A new Google trick: how to get links from high PageRank sites There's a new trick that some webmasters use to get high rankings on Google. Just like the trick we mentioned in a previous issue of our newsletter, this new technique exploits security holes of other web sites. read more: ADA applies to commercial and private Web sites Anitra Pavka reports the news that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to commercial and other private Web sites. read more: Global Error Handler. Part 2 One of our first articles using .Net (beta 1) was on a Global Error Handler that was included in our Global.Asax file. Since then we have modified the original code with a few additional features. We also use the same functions in several web sites so we also set up a special web (Errors.yyyZ.Net) to handle all the errors from all of our sites - seems to work great. read more: UK government web sites investigated for accessibility Ian Lloyd from Accessify.com is looking for accessible websites that 'don't look like a dogs dinner'Also on Accessify.com: 'The UK?s first e-Minister, Patricia Hewitt, gave a commitment in February 2001 that all new government websites should be accessible. Two years later, UK government sites are a long way from being accessible' read more: Disability Rights Commission find most sites unusable by disabled people Disability Rights Commission (DRC) tested a 1000 websites and found that most were not accessible to disabled people. 19 per cent of home pages passed W3C WCAG level 'A' , 0.2 per cent passed 'AA', (2 sites from 1000) and no sites passed 'AAA'.Those who are blind or have a visual impairment were found to have the most problems accessing the content and services on websites.Website owners were warned by Bert Massie, the chairman of the DRC, to improve accessibility or be prepared to face legal action. Disability organisations fail to meet challenge on accessibility'Disability 50' show that the majority of disability organisations do not address accessibility needs sufficiently in their web and digital communications. read more: Does it help RSS: Does it help . RSS By nygirl from see username 2 comments. I have seen many websites state that they have a rss feed but can someone tell me what it is for It is supposed to bring more traffic to their ... ---Last comment Sun Nov 26 18:28:12 2006 by jennifer from Detroit: It's a great thing and can certainly help.[1] RSS readers are becoming more and more popular and sites are looking to syndicate other sites' content a lot more these days.[2] So you basically make it easier for people to get to your latest content and in turn your site becomes more ... read more: Let's Design A Website That Sells Designing a website to market you products on the Internet read more: Rural Property Web Sites Link Buyers and Sellers Farm Credit financing institutions in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas have formed a strategic alliance with LandsofAmerica.com to provide an online resource for buyers and sellers of rural land. The result is a network of Web sites offering more than 9,500 rural and waterfront property listings, as well as rural financing information. (PRWEB Jul 5, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/TG92ZS1Qcm9mLUhhbGYtUGlnZy1JbnNlLVplcm8= read more: Better Structuring and Designing There is something to be learnt from the way a good architect works. Oehmig, Peter read more: Don't Decorate, Communicate! When you're designing a web page, it's easy to get sucked into the detail. But... Brisk, Phil read more: The Business Value of Web Standards Does designing to Web standards give organizations a return on investment? Does the transition to XHTML and CSS make financial sense? The answer to those questions is yes. read more: Designing URIs Although you may have never thought of it as "design" (I do), it is important to carefully think about site structure and how URIs to different resources are related. Failure to do so can come back and haunt you. I speak from experience. read more: The Design Spectrum When designing a product, the techniques and priorities a designer should use change according to its purpose. Hunt, Ben read more: Creating Websites with CSS and XHTML A wonderful set of 30 tutorials on designing with CSS and X/HTML. Raphael first covers a few basics, then moves on to tableless layout, menus and advanced topics. These articles are translated from French, so there are a few spelling and other mistakes. read more: Lazyweb: full list of Sony BMG owned domains? A non-spam comment recently arrived on the old Boycott Sony site, which is something of a rarity these days. Reader PJ asks whether there is a known list of sites that are owned by Sony BMG, or Sony generally, so that he can block those sites for showing up in AdSense ads. I don’t have such a list. Does anyone out there? I suspect that part of the issue may be that Sony Music/Sony BMG registers unique domains for its artists, meaning that blocking ads for them may turn into a game of whack-a-mole. But I’ll throw the question out to LazyWeb anyway. read more: Shift code Web - Design: Shift code . Web - Design By delta from sweetwater 3 comments. I was checking out a few sites and I notice a lot of them use shift code for their scripts.[1] Has anyone used this site before I know it is mostly used for gpt get paid to or ppc paid per click sites.[2] I think the site is ... ---Last comment Mon Nov 27 03:54:16 2006 by Nancy from Los Angeles: Here is the link for ... read more: Article Writings Content Service: Article Writings. Content Service By Nancy from Los Angeles I am looking for someone s to write some articles on a variety of topics.[1] They would need to be fun and interesting and in the ballpark of 300-500.[2] They could and would be encoraged to include link s to relate websites, but quotes from those sites would need to be limited to about 1/4 of the content.[3] ie: you could quote 125 words from other sites and write 375 word.[4] The articles need to be your own writing and style not copied from the web .[5] They may be used in blogs or other websites.[6] Click my profile and let me know the ballpark of your cost per article and areas of interest / ability as well as the number of articles per week you would be looking to write.[7] For the right person s this would be an ongoing ... read more: W3C release new beta version of Markup Validation Service W3C release new beta version of markup validator:'Welcome to the W3C Markup Validation Service; a free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.'A very good article from Ian Lloyd: 'Attractive, Accessible Web Sites (AKA disproving the myth of ugly) - When you are selling the concept of web accessibility be sure to pick the good-looking sites when demonstrating the possibilities, otherwise you might as well not bother. 'Juicy studio have published a Assistive Device Behaviour Chart.I have decided to maintain a chart of the capabilities of assistive devices so that developers can keep track of how they behave under certain circumstances. read more: No-One Looks at the Screen One of the most fundamental factors in designing for screen-based media is: No-one likes looking at a computer screen. Hunt, Ben read more: Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! Another article on designing your site, and the URLs used to navigate it. Well thought out, with many good points that I seemed to have instinctively adhered to here (and few people do): point number six: Well Designed URLs are Readable and Heirarchical. read more: Why the 'statistics defence' doesn't stand up I was recently involved in a discussion about whether website designers should be expected to accommodate Netscape 4 users. The case against accommodating Netscape 4 users is invariably backed up with statistics about how few people now use this, admittedly flawed, browser. I've heard 'the statistics defence' (as I will call it) so often over the years that this latest evocation prompted me to think about why I don't agree with this approach. My thoughts and arguments against the statistics defence are not yet fully formed. I would welcome any feedback on the subject. It is such a common argument against accessible web design in general, that a page containing counter arguments would be a good resource for web accessibility advocates.Examples of the 'statistics defence': 'We design for 17' screens because that's what most people use these days' 'We assume 92dpi resolutions because most people use a PC' 'We use IE 5 as a baseline because very few people use old browsers now.' 'We don't provide an alternative to our flash site, because everyone has the flash plugin these days.' 'We don't need to make our site accessible because it isn't aimed at, and doesn't get used by disabled people.' 'We design our site to work on 600 * 800 because that's what most people use.'My arguments against this approachI'll give my conclusion first: content on web pages needs to be accessible to Netscape 4 users - and all the other user agents accessing web content. The argument that we can ignore a particular set of users - because they only make up a small percentage of our audience (i.e. they use a particular browser or a particular bit of access technology) - isn't one web designers should be buying into. It is irrelevant whether a person is using Netscape 4, a screen reader, or a keyboard driven text only browser - the issues are basically the same; it is about accessibility of web content.The statistics defence assumes users needs and user agents are predictableWhat assumptions do many web designers make about their intended audience. e.g. what browsers do they assume they are using? what Screen size? screen resolutions, bandwidth, colour pallette? Are those assumptions based on the computer they have on their own desk, i.e., the one they are using to design the website? Probably - but is this a good approach? - probably not.Have any of the following things changed in the past: browsers, hardware devices connected to the web, screen size, screen resolution, Markup versions? Will these things change in the future? Yes - all of them. Designing for a specific configuration of hardware and software isn't a good way of making pages future proof. Even users with the same hardware and software resize their browser windows to suit their own preferences.A vital lesson to learn is - change is the norm: the most predictable thing we can say is that everything changes. The best chance we have of dealing with this unpredictability is: Use standards so that sites have the best chance of working on the widest range of user agents. Create sites that are flexible enough to deliver our content - no matter what the end user is using. That is not to say that the presentation will be the same on every device - it won't be. The presentation is important - but if the content isn't accessible - the presentation doesn't matter - because there is nothing to present.The web isn't paperCross platform/cross browser compatibility is the strength of the web - that was the problem it was designed to solve. Designing a web page is not like designing an advert or a bus shelter or a magazine page or a document to be printed on a sheet of A4; where the amount of 'real estate', colours, text size and so on is predictable. To take the specific issue of access for disabled people; do we have to accommodate the needs of disabled people? Do we have perfect knowledge about their access needs? The answer to the first question is yes; in the UK, the Disability Discrimination Act tells us that we can discriminate against disabled people. The answer to the second question is no; we don't have perfect knowledge about the access needs of disabled people.10% - 20% of people in most populations have some kind of impairment: some of those impairments are not obvious: 8% of men have colour blindness (.4% women) - approx 5% pop with visual impairments - approx 5 - 15% Dyslexia. Once people get older (say over 40) their eyesight, hearing and motor skill start to deteriorateIn the university where I work we have many disabled students - not all of them are registered as disabled, but approximately 500 are. Impairment Approximate Numbers Dyslexia 230 Blind/partially sighted 24 Deaf/partial hearing 25 Wheelchair.mobility 21 Autistic or Asperger 2 Mental health 10 Unseen disability (Epilepsy, diabetic,etc) 91 Disability not listed 101 Two or more of the above 21 We don't have perfect knowledge about the access needs of each individual listed above - so we need general strategies to deal with this unpredictability. In terms of approach, dealing with the diverse needs of disabled students isn't much different from dealing with the problem of making sites work on different browsers and different hardware platforms. We have to assume that we don't know what the end user will be using - or what their access requirements will be - and think about what this when we make design decisions. If it turns out that our content isn't accessible on a particular browser - we need to find a workaround to solve the issue (while maintaining standards markup and accessible design). There is always an answer - even if sometimes it take a bit of time to find it.We have to make our websites accessible because it is the law.In the UK we have the Disability Discrimination Act and the Special Needs and Disability Rights Act: and in a university that means we can't discriminate against a student on the grounds of their impairement; reasonable adjustment and anticipation of students needs is required. We can't argue that we won't accommodate disabled students because they only make up a small percentage of the student population. Equally we shouldn't argue that we won't accommodate users with particular browsers because they are part of a minority. In relation to the particular case of Netscape 4, it is legitimate to ask users to upgrade so that they get both the content and the good design - but not legitimate to argue that they won't get the content if they don't upgrade. read more: Web Designing Tips Easy that’s how you’d like life to be, right? Especially when you’re creating a website on your own. But that doesn’t mean you want the site to look severe and just functional. You want it to be pretty, smart and also respond and move when you interact with it, while saying all that you want to say to its visitors. There are little tips and Features incorporated into software just for people like you read more: Banner Exchanges Website Promotion: Banner Exchanges. Website Promotion By Holly from Middle of Nowhere USA 2 comments. I have noticed quite a few sites use banner exchanges.[1] I suppose this is free to each site, am I ... ---Last comment Fri Dec 29 00:58:43 2006 by Shiny Joy from India: Hi, It is true, banner exchange is done for free.[1] But there are some sites that have fixed a price on it.[2] Do you own a site Would you like to have a banner exchange with us.[3] For further details please mail to me.[4] Thanks Regards Shiny Joy ... read more: Useful Web Design Tips There are many aspects to designing an effective web site. Whether you own a company and are looking for advertise, promote, and sell your products and services, or you just simply want to create a web page that will tell others more about you, you want to be sure people will notice it. That is why effective Web Design is essential to the promotion of yourself, your product, and, of course, your site. read more: News.com.au This just in: standards-oriented design continues to speed sites, increase intelligence. Bonzer! read more: Note to Pastors: #1 - Why Website Maintenance Sucks Creating and designing websites is sexy and hi-profile - whereas maintaining code and a consistent stream of compelling content is difficult and is about as glamorous as the janitor who keeps the toilets clean. This is why we should not be suprised to hear that data-driven, CMS-based church websites are being replaced with FrontPage brochure-ware. read more: DRC report - more feedback Maurice Franceschi has e-mailed me his response to the recent Disability Rights Report on Web Accessibility.'However, given that the vast majority of sites cannot even achieve the basic issues I cannot see any clear way forward to getting sites to address the more advanced and broader issues above as long as the DRC takes a softly, softly approach - I mean, they do not even list the 1000 websites tested in the report. In the accompanying webcast there was an obvious reluctance to go to court but at the same time the Australian Olympics case is mentioned as an example of what can happen. I think a high-profile case is going to be what it takes, in the end, to force compliance. If Ryanair can be taken to court and lose over the wheelchair charging, I do not see what the problem is. 'He makes some useful and valid points: read the full e-mail about the report.I think Maurice is right - a high profile court case is going to make all the difference. read more: The Paradox of Choice I don't like to just link to stuff, but outsourcing choice at 37 signals is worth linking to. The post talks about designing interfaces with fewer choices. Really, the interesting thing here is Barry Schwartz and his book, The paradox of Choice. The paradox of choice being that having more choices makes [...] read more: My Java Web client gets the wrong site! 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