Many of my Clients As Me These FAQs:

"Static Website":

Typically a website with no interaction to a database. For example it can be a simple website that is meant to inform. It has no shopping cart. A static website can even include a list of products, but this list is manually typed in - not "pulled" dynamically from a database.

"Dynamic Website":

A website that has interactivity. For example, a website that displays images, descriptions, and prices of products. This display is pulled automatically from a database. The website requires programming to achieve this. Further, these products may be tied into a shopping cart. More programming is required to add a shopping cart feature to your website.

tableless design

Tableless Design is the way of the future. Actually it's here now! In the past, many websites were driven by table-based layouts and font tags. While this produces acceptable on-screen results, rendering nested tables is slower than with a Tableless-based layout. Tables and font tags also create bloated amounts of code (increasing file-size), and have to be edited on a per-page basis because they are embedded in the actual HTML.

The layout of this new tableless design is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and XHTML. CSS can be implemented site-wide, producing considerably leaner code while providing the same visual output. Some companies have cut their monthly bandwidth consumption literally in half as a result of switching to CSS/tableless based design, drastically reducing costs.

In addition, CSS makes updating and maintenance a much easier and less time-consuming process. Therefore, I use XHTML, CSS and JavaScript with efficiency and ease-of-use in mind.

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css

Abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheet, a feature of HTML developed by the W3C. With CSS, both web designers and end users can create style templates (sheets) that specifies how different text elements (paragraphs, headings, hyperlinks, etc.) appear on a web page.

CSS also controls the layout in a tableless environment. CSS can be implemented site-wide, producing considerably leaner code while providing the same visual output. Some companies have cut their monthly bandwidth consumption literally in half as a result of switching to CSS/tableless based design, drastically reducing costs.

In addition, CSS makes updating and maintenance a much easier and less time-consuming process. It is important to you that your developer uses CSS on your site for the reasons mentioned.

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xhtml

XHTML is the next generation of HTML and is a hybrid between HTML and XML. XML was designed to describe data. HTML was designed to display data. XHTML is much stricter than HTML and developers must carefully follow rules. XHTML 1.0 became a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on January 26, 2000. The final version of HTML is 4.01, there will be no HTML 5. All developers should be using XHTML instead of HTML.

It is important to you that your developer uses XHTML on your site as HTML will eventually be faded out.

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seo - search engine optimization

A form of online marketing, search engine optimization (or search engine marketing - SEM) is the process of making a site and its content highly relevant for both search engines and searchers. Successful search marketing helps a site gain top positioning for relevant words and phrases (in the free section - aka "organic" - of the search engine results page). This is FREE advertising! This is NOT the PPC model.

Bottom Line: Improve your business through your website.

How do you do this?: Attract as many people to your website as possible. The higher number of visitors to your website, the higher numbers of possible customer conversions.

How do you get people to your website?: Your website appears high on the Search Engine Results page (SERP) as a result of a user inquiry. Statistics shows that most users click on the first page of SERPs (top 10).

How do you get your website to appear in the top 10?: You must have an SEO expert Optimize your website! There is a long list of procedures an SEO expert can do to optimize your site.

It is important to you so that your website will work for you. And work FREE! You must attract customers to your website.

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Different Types of eCommerce:

eCommerce: Ecommerce is selling and buying goods and services over the Internet. It includes: consumers using the Internet to purchase goods and services online (B2C); as well as businesses selling and communicating with other businesses through the Internet. (B2B) Required components include a secure server, a payment processing system and shopping cart software.

OS Commerce: osCommerce (for “Open Source Commerce”) is a powerful e-commerce and full-featured online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available for free under the GNU General Public License. Websites created with osCommerce can be easily maintained and administered by a non-technical person using the Administrative interface and a web browser. visit their website

CRE Loaded OS Commerce: (ready made on-line shop) CRE Loaded is a Commercial Open Source Ecommerce web application with File Distribution and Content Management Systems. Products are managed from the Web based product manager. Products from 0 to 50k can be imported via spreadsheet. CRE Loaded offers ready-made templates. visit their website


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