Web Design Competition

There are a variety of software packages for web designing available at different prices. Each one has special features and requires special expertise. If you are going to design and maintain a website, it is advisable to use a professional software package such as Dreamweaver or Adobe Golive. Software packages allow you to control some if not all components of the design of a website.

HTML of Hyper Text Markup Language is the principal markup language for web pages. HTML is the basic and core software tool for simple web design. It provides web programming from scratch by applying HTML coding on simple HTML documents. Later on, the web learner can move forward to other editing tools. HTML programming involves formatting of text, use of table and lists, and other information on using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

Advance levels of HTML programming include how to make a website of the customer’s choice, familiarization with HTML scripting, and understanding the basics of CSS. This also includes the complex structure of tables, forms and image maps. By using HTML, the web designer can pass input data to functions to check its accuracy and reject unwanted or wrong data input.

Web programming allows web learners to apply techniques of basic scripting like variables, statements, loops, functions and others. The major focus is on program flow, a well-structured program, and web designing using good web techniques and debugging process.

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a scripting language. It was originally designed to produce dynamic pages for web development. PHP is a powerful tool for making websites and can be used to make a simple web application or a complex web structure. It is usually embedded in HTML. PHP is a server-side language. One very useful application of PHP is in building a shopping cart facility. This facility is very much needed and used in online business transaction involving sales and processing payments. By using PHP, complex tasks can be performed such as maintaining cookies, cryptography, and other security issues relating to e-commerce.

Java is a general-purpose programming language specifically designed to let application developers write programs that will look the same and provide the same features and services regardless of what browser or platform is being used. With Java scripting, your website will look the same to all users.

Cold Fusion is a scripting language that enables web developers to build interactive, exciting and dynamic sites. It provides standard HTML files with database commands and conditional operators plus other high-level formatting functions to build web applications with powerful capabilities.

.NET development introduces the ASP.NET applications using the C# language. This course can be used by website designers, web programmers, IT project managers, web design project analyzers, and many more. A.NET page is officially known as a “web form”. A webform allows the user to enter data that is sent to a server for processing. It can be used to enter credit card data or to order a product.

Aside from the languages and web programs described above, there are many other software packages for web designing also available.

By: J Klein

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Designing and publishing a website that you’re proud of is not as hard as you may think. Especially nowadays, because there is software available that automates much of the work that used to be relegated to the webmaster (which is you!).

It used to be that in order to build a website from scratch, you had to know HTML, or “Hyper Text Markup Language.” And truth be told, you are still better off knowing at least the basics of HTML. Nevertheless, it’s not required. Especially if you find easy web design software that takes care of this for you. Now, every single HTML editor on the planet now features a “WYSIWYG” interface. (What You See Is What You Get.) So, theoretically, you shouldn’t have to know the first thing about HTML.

The reality, however, is that not all HTML editors (or “web design software”) does WYSIWYG well. Little annoying problems tend to crop up. For example, say you typed the following sentence using your handy HTML editor:

“Discover the best places to SCUBA dive in the Cayman Islands.” You want “best places” to be italicized and “Cayman Islands” to be bolded, as shown. The way it’s supposed to work is this:

Behind the scenes, your HTML editor is supposed to ‘type’ the phrase as such: Discover the < I >best places< /I >to SCUBA dive in the < B >Cayman Islands< /B >. (I put extra spaces between the tags for this example, in order to keep the article publishing software from parsing it like normal HTML.)

But instead, this is what you get: “Discover the best places to SCUBA dive in the Cayman Islands.” Even though you highlighted the words “best places” and clicked the little graphical icon on your html editor’s toolbar that represented italics, your phrase comes out non-italicized. And/or your bolded words are not bolded.

Well, in this instance, you’d have to go to the “Source View” of your HTML editor and manually insert the above HTML tags to make these things happen. This is a very annoying problem with too many popular web design software titles nowadays.

Another problem that will have you pulling your hair out, is seeing a totally different result in the web browser than you see in your HTML editor window. For example, your formatting changes are (apparently) taking effect as you type–just as it should (remember it’s supposed to be WYSIWYG)…

However, they don’t show up when you publish the page to the internet! I don’t know why, but this problem still plagues most web design software.

Fortunately, there are a few (very few) shining stars that work for cheap, while doing all the other things to make your website pretty and (if you’re so inclined) draw customers.

By: Chuck Brown

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