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Category: Web Design

11
Nov
2018

Choose the Best Toronto Web Design Company for Excellence

Website is only the sole medium of interaction between an online business and the outer world. The way your website looks, reflects your status and position in the corporate world. Therefore, it is necessary to set your first impression right to make long term potential customers and excel in the business world.

The reason behind building a website can be anything. Whether it is about gaining profits from the business market or making potential customers, nothing matters. You still need an interactive and responsive website design which is possible if you hire one of the renowned designing companies around you.

Toronto web design companies deals with all web development services from the scratch. Whether it is about planning, designing, programming or uploading, once you hire, they are sure to stay with you at every step till the final process and make your business a boom.

Since, customer’s interests and needs for the design of website are on the upper hand; such companies facilitate with custom design services, where one can choose and suggest innovative ideas and thoughts for their website’s appearance. Customers directly interact with the designers and specify their designing goals. As with custom design, user can alter and manipulate the entire website according to need so it is highly preferred services now days.

Another web design solution which makes you look more professional is the WordPress design. It offers pre made designing elements like templates, themes and layouts from which the customer can choose the suitable one. It counts lesser cost and is the fastest of all web designing services as coding portion is not involved. All you need to do is make use of plug-ins and tools for creating an approachable design.

Since customers wish to deal and purchase from a business having strong identity, the logo design services helps in visualizing your corporate identity through the glance of logo. They help in communicating targets, quality and workmanship of your business all over the world.

Choosing the best company out of numerous options is really a challenging task. It needs lot of planning and decision making, so that you do not have to switch from one company to other in middle of your designing process. Therefore, you should make sure that you have made a right choice in choosing the company that can offer services according to needs and requirements with cent percent customer satisfaction.

You should keep in mind the budget limit as well as time period for completion before making the first move.

07
Nov
2018

Web design firms Kelowna

categories: Web Design

DotCom Media – Kelowna based web design agency

DotCom Media is a Kelowna based web design agency founded in 2000 that utilizes the scalability and the power of the Internet to develop functional website solutions for companies that are looking for ways to increase their competitive advantage while controlling costs. Working with clients over the past 12 years we know that not everyone can afford a custom branded solution, but still want a design that works for their business strategy and provides maximum dollar benefit. From that need we developed Csek Creative to provide the Custom Branded experience and DotCom Media will work with companies requiring a functional design with CMS that allow them to be in charge of costs on a go forward basis. Every company has different needs and depending where they are at in their business cycle the choices need to be available. We can now offer those choices.

With over a decade of experience, DotCom Media’s work includes web design, online software development, content management systems (CMS), eCommerce shopping carts, advanced flash and action script, search engine optimization and positioning, and excellent technical support. We meet with you to hear about your business, we learn about your services and/or products, we ask what challenges you face and what goals you would like to achieve. We ask what programs and software you use to determine integration opportunities. Asking a series of questions, we are able to determine the technical skill set of employees and make suggestions to close any identified gaps. We look at your marketing materials and your day to day process to identify any technical inefficiencies. Based on information gathered, we create a realistic strategy. From that we also can determine whether your needs can be met by either DotCom Media or Csek Creative. Once we determine what it is you wish to do, we match a technology or group of technologies to achieve your objectives and goals. We offer real solutions for real businesses.

You can contact us at 1 866 862 8010 or 250 862 8010, email or visit us at our Kelowna office at 206 – 1441 Ellis Street. Website: http://www.dotcommediainc.com

03
Nov
2018

Html5 – Not Designed For Business Applications

categories: Web Design

HTML5 – Not Designed for Business Applications

HTML5 is the next version of HTML to come along since version 4.0 in 1997.

HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language and HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of web pages. The Internet would not exist as we know it today without HTML.

But HTML is not a programming language at all. This concept is confusing to some people. Web pages rely on a scripting language such as JavaScript in order to respond to user input. Think of it as HTML being a car and JavaScript being the engine.

JavaScript was introduced in 1995 by Netscape and coincidentally, that’s when the web started to really “take off”. This is an important fact to consider before we dig deeper into HTML5.

The open source nature of HTML and JavaScript has contributed to the growth of the Internet as a whole. Source code and design ideas are often borrowed from around the web and even from competitor’s web sites. This is facilitated by the fact that HTML and JavaScript are impossible to hide or protect.

HTML5 is no different!

There has been a lot of talk about HTML5 over the past couple of years and developers think that HTML5 is “cool” and “fun” to work with. But the logic ends there.

As usual with most new technologies, there has been confusion and misinformation over when HTML5 should be used and for what purpose. We aim to enlighten you about what HTML5 can and can’t do in this article.

New Features Same Old Concept

HTML5 includes new features such as the “Canvas” element, along with audio, video and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) content, some of which replace the “object” tags of HTML4. There have also been some modifications and standardization of tags such as (a, cite, menu) but the basic concept of HTML remains the same in HTML5.

Who’s Promoting HTML5?

HTML5 was originally proposed by Opera Software (makers of the Opera web browser) and designed by the World Wide Web Consortium, also known as W3C.

An important point is that the W3C has been criticized as being dominated by larger organizations and thus writing standards that represent their interests.

The large organizations (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Google and Facebook) have promoted HTML5 as the most up to date technology for web development. In fact the late Steve Jobs termed HTML5 as the win-win solution for consuming any kind of web content on all types of web platforms. But it is important to note that Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook each have an incentive for promoting HTML5; each own and operate very profitable “app” stores such as the Windows Marketplace, Google App Store, iTunes App Store, Facebook Canvas Apps, etc. Protection of intellectual property and trade secrets is of little or no concern to those companies and in fact it is almost a conflict of interest.

Fact #1: HTML5 is based on JavaScript, which is impossible to protect. Yes, that’s a fact!

As we discussed a moment ago, JavaScript is the core “language” of HTML5, whose source code is impossible to protect. The most evident reason is that anyone can view HTML5 and JavaScript source by just a simple click. JavaScript was never intended to be anything more than an engine for client-server communication and re-useable web content, including menus, buttons, tabs and the like.

Developers may argue that they can mangle JavaScript source code by obfuscation and pseudo-encryption (such as “minification”, where the code is compressed and “minified”). But this is a dangerously false sense of security. Any skilled developer can reverse engineer a “minified” or “obfuscated” JavaScript application. By design, JavaScript cannot be encrypted and it cannot be hidden. JavaScript files must be downloaded in order to run in a web browser.

To make matters worse, JavaScript also cannot be locked down to a specific web domain.

The code is accessible to be hacked by any competitor. No matter how many steps are taken to hide the JavaScript, the web browser eventually downloads the JavaScript file to run it within the client’s web browser.

For comparison, hacking a Flash or Silverlight application just by viewing the source is not very easy but anyone with a little knowledge of HTML5 can do it in minutes.

The hacks of famous HTML5 games like AngryBirds, Texas Holdem and many others are excellent examples of the insecure techniques employed by HTML5 developers. All security measures are useless once the code has been obtained and reverse engineered. No matter what any HTML5 or JavaScript developer may claim, these facts are true and irrefutable!

Fact #2: The concept of HTML5 Canvas is nothing new.

As we discussed already, HTML5 is based on the same concepts of HTML4. The most useful and talked about feature of HTML5 is the new “Canvas” object. Canvas makes it easy for JavaScript developers to “paint” within a web browser, simplifying the design of applications that utilize graphics. But you may be surprised to know that this functionality has been available in a simulated manner with very little attention since the release of HTML4.

Fact #3: There is a widespread misconception about HTML5

HTML5 has been labeled as a “cross platform programming language” which is a serious misconception. It is true that HTML5 is capable of running on all types of platforms such as Windows, Linux, Android and other mobile operating systems but let’s not forget that HTML5 is nothing more than web page markup, which is controlled by JavaScript. Classifying HTML5 and JavaScript as a true programming language would be incorrect. It is a browser integrated language that cannot utilize all the features of the underlying operating system.

When Should You Use HTML5?

The answer is quite simple. Use HTML5 when you do not care about your source code, intellectual property, or trade secrets. If you do not care that a competitor may steal your source code after it has been uploaded to your web site then use HTML5. As you can see, HTML5 is perfect for buttons, menus and website specific content, for which it was designed.

The Bottom Line – Better Options Available

The bottom line is that HTML5 and JavaScript are great for a lot of things, but you can’t effectively protect anything that you develop with them. This clearly doesn’t add up if you are using these technologies for developing business applications, which they were not designed for.

If you are developing a web application then consider using Flash or Silverlight, both of which run in all popular web browsers for desktop operating system, including Windows, Mac and Linux.

If you are developing a mobile application, there are far better options for iPhone, iPad and Android development that afford better protection of trade secrets, better security, performance and usability for the end user and also allow you to take advantage of the native features of the underlying operating systems. For iOS (iPad and iPhone), use the Object C programming language. For Android, use the Java programming language.

For Windows development, consider C++, C#, Delphi or other proven languages.

Although slightly more difficult to develop with, Objective C, C++, C#, Java and other low level languages are always the best option no matter if you are developing desktop, web, or mobile applications.

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About the Author

Richard Gardner is Founder/CEO of Modulus Financial Engineering, Inc. In addition to his leadership role of the firms team members, Richard is an influential member of the financial technology industry at large, a globally-respected professional trader and software engineer, a guest speaker at industry conferences and among the inventors on over 70 technology patents.

29
Oct
2018

Good Web Design – Why attraction is never good enough

categories: Web Design

Most web designers mistakenly focus on designing web sites that attract customers. This leads to websites that are not well designed to meet the needs of the visitor or customer. After years involved in web design and the evaluation and optimization of websites, which recently concluded that the vast majority of web sites today is a better design than they were 5 years ago.

Yes, websites designed over the past five years certainly look better and have more features and impressive effects wow, incredible graphics and intelligent video. But that does not mean that web sites that perform better meet the needs of the visitor or the owner of the website. In fact, very often these effects, graphics and flash videos while enhancing the visual appeal of the web page of the website and actually worse in terms of performance. By performance I mean how well the site meets the goals that should have been designed to meet.

When you are looking to have a website designed or redesigned first thing to establish is what are the objectives of the web?

What is the purpose of the site?

It is the purpose of:

1. Stun visitors with a jaw dropping graphics and effects? 2. Getting good reviews for his website from other web designers? 3. Inform and educate visitors? 4. Attract visitors interested in what the right of the website has to offer? 5. Sell products or services? 6. Attract potential customers or subscribers?

If you want evidence of the extent to which web designers are focused on the visual aspect of a website rather than fit for purpose, it suffices to look at dozens of websites that show what they consider to be good designs web.

These sites are a good showcase of web design 1000 ‘s of websites submitted by web designers to be reviewed and voted for many of their peers, or so it seems. Examples are siteinspire.net, unmatchedstyle.com, csselite.com, beautiful2.com, webcreme.com, creattica.com, divinecss.com, foliofocus.com, and bestwebgallery.com cartfrenzy.com. Some but not all sites show the state what they consider web design as well the guidelines of your presentation.

Unmatchedstyle. com is dedicated to recognizing those who have made exceptionally gorgeous web sites through the use of web standards and best practices of use.

Foliofocus.com is a web design gallery exists to show the best collection of sites and web designers portfolio, photographers and other professionals.

Cartfrenzy.com is a design gallery for the best-designed e-commerce and shopping Web sites.

Bestwebgallery. com offers a wide range of quality websites in the design (Flash and CSS). They will declare what quality design means to them, which is: Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity Note here the emphasis is on visual appearance, explosion technical wiz and creative merit.

Based on my own experience auditing and evaluating Web sites and on sites that appear to show how the above is why I have concluded that the designers are too focused on creating good looking websites that attract their peers.

Case Study

As if to prove the point that conducted a detailed study of a highly rated website listed in unmatchedstyle.com. In choosing the site of this case study was also looking for the site of a web design company since it must represent all that is best in a good web design. The site received a 9.1 out 10 for the good site design exhibition and a video review.

After my detailed case study evaluation of the site that determined the design of web pages quality rating of 3.9 on main page 10 and the website as a whole was rated 4.2 out of 10. Of course, I have used different criteria to my qualifications for the good quality web design that made the exhibition website that gave a rating of 9.1.

To homepage using a list that evaluated 12 design categories, with 135 elements and page layout throughout the website using a list that evaluates 91 aspects of site design.

The 226 design aspects of web pages that are not present also were given a severity rating. This classification of severity is based on the level of impact of missing aspect in the design and the frequency with which it occurred.

The number of aspects that went along with the website or website with the severity level is used in a formula to determine a rating of good quality web design.

What emerges from this case study is the location used in the study received high marks 9.1 for good site design showcase based on assessment criteria very different from mine, which gave the site a rating of only 4.2.

So the question is, what classification for good website design is to the right, a showcase site classification of 9.1 or 4.2 my score?

Well, that depends on whether you want to base a rating for a good web design largely in good condition, or a detailed assessment of 226 aspects of good web design you would expect in a well designed website.

Decide on what is a good web site design also depends on whether you want a website that looks good and is designed for one purpose and to meet clearly defined objectives. If you want a website that does more than look good, then you need to look a little closer at the design of your website as just looking good is never good enough, at least not for me.

Just having a good looking web site good enough for you?

Author is an associate editor for Professional Web Designing. Get all possible information about Web Page Creation and Website Designing India. we also provide Web Design,Internet Marketing,Web Development in India.

24
Oct
2018

Specificity & Cascade Rule Css External, Internal, Inline Style Sheets

categories: Web Design

External Style Sheet:
Enter Following Code between HEAD tags of web page.
eg. Available Continued Link
This will links to your .css file once you define your path.
NOTE:
(Site Editor does not allow CSS Code but can view Article Continued Link)

eg. @import method – use within the STYLE tags:
Available Continued Link

eg. import file within a CSS style sheet: @import
Available Continued Link
(NOTE: @import rule must come before all other content in .css (comments included) or .css may not load properly)
(Efficient; global changes for large web sites can occur automatically by altering only one file. Ensures a consistent look, easier maintenance, improved flexibility for updating, saves download times (style sheet is cached, net weight of page decreases).

Internal Styles are EMBEDDED within HEAD tags using STYLE tags
eg. Available Continued Link
(NOTE: Styles within this method SUPERSEDE styles in External Sheets).
(Increases load time but useful if testing pages; saves time)
(NOTE: The More Specific Rule between internal and external style sheets WINS the SPECIFICITY contest).

Inline Style Attribute:
Code is entered within tags using the XHTML style attribute (this case paragraph tags).
eg. p tags Available Continued Link
(Inline styles have the highest priority, HOWEVER keep in mind this could interfere with the Cascade Rule. Benefit; quick to alter one-off or less occurring situations). This method mixes content with presentation losing many of the advantages of style sheets.

The Cascade Rule influences the flow down effect of the CSS selectors with a Weight or Order of importance assisting browsers to interpret hierarchy of selectors to parse. Basically it Resolves conflict between selectors.
Specificity (determines how specific a CSS rule is) it’s determined by ID attribute count, how many pseudo-classes are in the selector, and number of element names in the selector.

The rule coded last takes precedence if two+ style rules are considered equal in specificity.

Specificity is calculated by ranking selectors; Inline Selector TOP > NEXT ID’s Selector > THEN classes/pseudo class Selectors > LAST Tag Elements/pseudo elements (CSS 2.1). Calculation represented in this fashion 0-0-1-1 (the higher number wins specificity race).

Remember Inline Styles take Precedence over ALL.

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