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Web Design

Web design encompasses a multitude of different skills to present content (usually in the form of hypertext) that is delivered to a webuser through the World Wide Web (www) by a variety of mean, but most typically a web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox) but can be through other means such as Really Simple Syndication Reader (RSS Reader).

The disciplines that can be involved in the production of a web page or a web site include:

  •   Animation (e.g. usually Flash)
  • Authoring (writing content)
  • Communication design
  • Corporate identity
  • Graphic design
  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • Photography
  • Search Engine Optimisation

 

Mysql Sorting Records By Longitude and Latitude

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Sometime it is necessary to list items which are close by geographically. If you have the longitude and latitude then this is a simple matter and can be done within one sql statement.

An example implementation is shown below. As companies very rarely change location, and this query will cause MySql to traverse each row in the table everytime it is run, the results here are cached using Zend Cache.

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Upgrading PHP on a mac and getting Zend Running

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The mac is an assume machine and the Zend framework well worth the investment in time in getting used to it for later rapid development.

However the version of PHP installed with a mac is a very limited set and doesn't have the PDO_MYSQL adapter that the Zend framework wants.

 There are various resources on the web on how to roll your own and compile a version of PHP for your mac to overcome this, however one of the most simplest versions which takes less than a few minutes (including the download) is to just over write your exisiting PHP files with a new version.

 

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History Of Web Design

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Tim Berners-Lee published what is now considered to be the first website in August 1991. Berners-Lee was the first to combine Internet communication protocols (which had been carrying email and the Usenet for a considerable period of time) with a special language called hypertext (which had also been around for decades, but limited to browsing information stored on a single computer rather than over a network, such as interactive CD-ROM design). Now if I had invented the system I would have patented it - imagine the revenue that could be made. Websites nowadays are written in a markup language called HTML. HTML started off very basic  only giving a website's basic structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link to other pages using hypertext. This was entirely new and different from the previous forms of communication - users could easily navigate to other pages on the same computer and more importantly on other connected computers by following hyperlinks from page to page.
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Accessible Web Design

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To be classified as accessible, web pages and web sites must conform to certain accessibility principles. These accessibility principles are known as the (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) when talking about content. These can be grouped into the following foremost areas:
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Web Design - Planning

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Purposing web design is often a complex, but essential ongoing activity for anything other than a simple site with an extremely limited content. Before creating and uploading the components of a website, it is important, as with most complex projects,  to take the time to plan exactly what is needed on the website. Thoroughly considering the target or intended audience as well as defining the raison d’etre or purpose and deciding what content will be developed are extremely important factors.

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