Rapid application and web site development. Increasing demand for web standards. New standards and technologies appear, grow, and morph together within shorter and shorter cycles. Webmasters must be more productive than ever. These guidelines will help you become a more productive webmaster.
The building blocks of a productive webmaster are:
Webmasters can find plenty of excellent tools now to:
The old saying, "Use the right tool for the right job", remains true today. Invest time today in finding yourself the right tools for the jobs you do.
The net houses a myriad of web developer software. Some of the best web development applications and tools are free or open-source. Yes, many excellent web design applications still cost, yet can be worth paying for.
Script Name: Bible Search
Script URI: http://www.christian-web-masters.com/2006/08/25/bible-search/
Web Service URI: http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/share/services/
Description: Bible Search PHP Script Based on the ESV (English Standard Version) Web Service
Features include:
1. Search results on your website
2. Seach by Passage reference (e.g., John 1 or Gen 16)
3. Find Verses
a. containing all the words
b. containing the exact phrase
c. not containing the words
4. Focus search by:
a. book of the Bible
b. Match
- Anywhere in words (the also finds father)
- Beginnings of words only (the also finds there but not father) - slower
- Exact matches only (the only finds the) - slower
c. Complete text of the Bible, including headings and footnotes
d. Text of the Bible only
The Internet is exploding and a lot of companies are thinking about placing a "home page" on the World Wide Web. For maximum impact and user friendliness, keep the following guidelines in mind when designing your web presence.
Users will not wait. You have about 10-seconds to catch and keep a visitor. Your home page should load quickly. Ensure this by keeping graphics small and backgrounds simple and by using height and width tags with every graphic. The height/width tags will force the text to load first giving the user something to read while the graphics load. It is also a good idea to use ALT tags with the graphic tag so that the graphic is identified to the user while it loads.
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Let's dissect the pieces of my company roster XML document to see each piece's role and responsibility.
Header:
The header tells the document's user that this is an XML document - using version 1.0 of the XML specification in this case.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <company name="Information Strategies"> <employees> <employee id="1">Hank Aaron</employee> <employee id="2">Babe Ruth</employee> </employees> </company>
Envision a world in which you buy a new home appliance and it introduces itself to all of your other appliances and they figure out how to work together. Went you start your movie player it orders the lights to dim, the microwave to pop the popcorn and the telephone to hold all your calls until the movie is over.
This may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but it is just around the corner thanks to an extensible markup language called XML. It sounds like your t-shirt size, but it is a powerful new addition to the e- world and it is going to rock your world good.
If you're doing business on the internet, one of the most important aspects of your businesses success is your web site. If your web site doesn't look professional, no matter what product you're offering, your chances of success are minimal.
Before you begin, if you've never designed a web page, it would be wise to become familiar with HTML. (Hypertext Markup Language). A great place to start is NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML - http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Gen...
Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
The main page of your web site should be under 60KB in size and take only 30 seconds to load. If a page takes too long to load, your potential customer will not wait. Ultimately costing you business.
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Let's hear from some Church webmasters
Other Christian website experts say...
More expert advice...
Conclusion with an important example site...
Paul says,
?You also have to consider how people enter your site - they may not visit your front page first, so making links to the visitors page(s) available throughout the site is important.?
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To summarize, XML is a text-based meta-language that uses tags, elements, and attributes to add structure and definition to documents. It is similar to HTML in syntax and implementation, but different with regard to functionality. Where HTML allows users to control how documents are displayed, XML allows them to describe the actual contents of the documents. It is a markup language because it uses tags to mark-up documents and it is a meta-language because it uses these tags to give structure to documents that it in turn uses as a means of communication. XML is extensible because it enables users to create their own collection of tags (unlike HTML).
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Now to the four questions
Is your site full of hidden treasures? Let's hope not.
Treasures, good. Hidden, bad. If your site's visitors can't
navigate effortlessly through all parts of your site, your web
presence isn't as effective as it could be.
A well-designed navigation system is a critical component of any
successful web site. It should be persistent and consistent
throughout the site and should answer these four questions:
In the following two articles, I'm going to wrap up my pondering on XML. We'll explore the basic schema of a DTD, and the future of XML.