Custom Web 2.0 Web Design
Web 2.0 website design and functionality has literally changed the way we use the Internet. We can instantly research any information topic with only a few clicks and keystrokes. We can shop for the best prices on merchandise or services without ever leaving our home.
Blogs, social networks and video websites allow us to communicate with friends, family, business associates and customers by sharing information, images and videos online.
Web 2.0 Standards Compliant and Search Engine Friendly
Web design has changed dramatically during the last decade, especially over the last few years. New technologies, methods and web design techniques have been devised and adopted by the world's top web designers to promote better web design, better website accessibility, enhanced website usability, robust website functionality, and a much more efficient workflow of updating website code, content and design. This new philosophy towards web design has been affectionately termed Web 2.0.
The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, has developed and published a standardized set of web design rules to guide the Internet's evolution towards a healthy new level of maturity. The W3C has provided web designers and website developers with a sophisticated toolset of validating website code called the W3C Markup Validation Service. Why is this important? The Validation Service will identify any errors in website code. These errors can slow the load time of a website, create display discrepancies in different web browsers, and limit user accessibility. Worst of all, website code errors can prohibit the search engines from scanning a website.
Search engines like Google have been a predominant force in shaping the landscape of modern Web 2.0 website design. Google's search engine spiders have much better access to a website that passes a W3C Markup Validation. A W3C valid website has no code errors, which minimizes obstacles for search engine spiders and allows optimal scanning of website. The more errors a website has, more difficulty search engine spiders will have scanning the website. Sometimes, excessive website errors will cause a search engine to skip the website entirely. There are exceptions to the rule, as some website applications cannot comply to W3C standards. Even Google has some web pages that fail W3C validation. But for the most part, the average web page can be coded to be a valid Web 2.0 web page.
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the fundamental programming language, or scripting, used to create web pages. There are numerous additional scripting languages that work in concert with HTML, such as CSS, JavaScript, XML, etc., but HTML is the most basic and fundamental of all web page scripting. A basic HTML website will be a static website, static meaning that the webpage content will not change with user interaction. A static HTML website is the most common of all websites, and often provides all the functionality that the a website owner ever needs. If you don't need to have content management, blogs, interactive forms, databases, etc., then a static HTML website may suit your needs. Page loading speed of a static HTML website has an advantage over a dynamic PHP, ASP or Cold Fusion website.The page content of an HTML web page is hard coded into the web page code, so the page is immediately served to the user, limited only by the speed of the hardware and operating system. This is called a client side web page. In contrast, a dynamic web page sends data to the server, then the server sends data back to the web page and serves the content to the user. The time it takes for the data to go from the user to the server and back to the user again is limited not only by the speed of the hardware and operating system but also by the speed of the scripting language software, PHP for example, any database tables it may reference, e.g., MySQL. This is called a server side webpage.
Special scripts, e.g., JavaScript, XML, Actionscript, etc, can enhance a static HTML webpage and give it a dynamic appearance. XHTML is the modern version of HTML, the X stands for extensible. Using XML and JavaScript a static HTML webpage can become a dynamic XHTML web page.
An basic HTML website is priced from $1999 and goes up from there based upon the amount of pages, content, media and application development.
Razworks custom websites are tested on the W3C Markup Validation Service numerous times through the web design production process. This ensures that a Razworks website design will be a Web 2.0 valid web design. If you require a specific website application or functionality that cannot validate, Michael Rassel will make every effort to minimize the errors.
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