Web Development

Internet Development

Task 1

Emerging Standards in Web Development

More with less, this seems to be the impossible task of web designers: Go to more customers, to a growing audience, with greater diversity of browsers, improving accessibility, with users who want more speed, and this reduces maintenance costs or redesign the site. Caught between a rock and a hard place, webmasters face a formidable challenge. But have an unexpected ally in the battle, the web standards (Perr et.al, 2010). This report will present the new apprentices with a set of web standards that are essential in the establishment of an effective and efficient website (Hendler, 2009).

Uniform Design

Separating content from presentation web designers has many cattle. The CSS style is defined with a presentation-oriented language. Save the code in a separate CSS (style sheet) and apply it to a set of HTML documents can completely change the design for all your documents easily. The HTML strict (unlike the transitional marking) does not allow the use of style tags in HTML documents, naturally forcing the separation of content and presentation.

Improved User Experience

The HTML is usually much more compact when used in conjunction with CSS, and therefore is easier to read and maintain. CSS enables the transformation of tables based layouts in CSS based designs. Typically this reduces the size of the pages between 25 and 50%. This results in a better user experience.

Improving SEO Ranking

Getting to the top is one of the greatest challenges facing by webmasters. In this case, every bit helps. The search engine robots crawl the web to index. Compared to a person, see the Web robots in a very different. The dynamic effects are ignored JavaScript created (flash or talk), and the text within graphics will not be read (Hebert, 2011). The separation of content and presentation information significantly increases / code, making CSS-based documents most appropriate for viewing by human users, improving its position in search engine results.

Adaptation to multiple platforms

Standards and multiplatform go together. While some capricious browsers have different behaviors depending on the platform, Mozilla-based browsers are designed to behave the same on all supported platforms (Mac, Linux, Unix, Windows).

Extensibility

Use HTML strict and separate the content structure paves the way for XHTML, which is a version of HTML supports XML. Using XHTML allow web developers in the world to use XML tools such as XSLT to manipulate XML data easily.

The use of XHTML is an introduction to the family of standards that make XML technologies such as XML, XSLT (transforming documents), SVG (animated graphics), MathML (mathematical expressions). These technologies are designed to be interoperable, and are the basis of Web Services. This goes far beyond simple web design.

Website Compatibility

Increasingly, browsers, and IE, used to surf the web:

Windows: MSIE, Gecko based browsers, Opera

Mac: MS-Tasman (layout engine IE / Mac 's), Gecko based browsers, Safari, Opera

GNU / Linux: browsers based on Gecko, KHTML based browsers, Opera

Roughly, for surfing the web use 5 different rendering engines in dozens of browsers, for all 3 major ...