I didn’t want to slap large banners or the like and I remember seeing those page peel adverts and thought it could be a good compromise, when you Google ‘page peel script’ all I seemed to find was a paid version on a long copy type sales page which immediately put me off.
However after searching for a while I found a FREE page peel script at Webpicasso, you can see it in action on BCC148, let the page load and look up in the top right corner. Not overbearing and better than nothing, an excellent free script.

The jQuery library, and virtually all of its plugins are constrained within the jQuery namespace. As a general rule, “global” objects are stored inside the jQuery namespace as well, so you shouldn’t get a clash between jQuery and any other library (like Prototype, MooTools, or YUI).

That said, there is one caveat: By default, jQuery uses “$” as a shortcut for “jQuery”‘

Credit : http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries

For those of you who want to build Joomla templates with Dreamweaver, there are several very cool tools available that automates much of the task of creating custom Joomla templates.

Joomla Template Kit

This is the original Joomla template design kit by Media 65. It consists of a set of Dreamweaver tools and menus that help take the pain out of the Joomla code. Here’s what’s included in the Joomla Template Kit:

• Joomla template design system and education
• Power full Joomla template extension for Adobe Dreamweaver®
• One hour video
• Templates which you may resell to your clients
• How to’s, tutorials, code snippets, video and more.

The Joomla Template Kit is available at Media 65.

Joomla Template Kit 3.0 Beta

This is the updated version of the original Joomla Template Kit and is to be used with Joomla version 1.5. It’s a free download if you have an active subscription to the original Joomla Template Kit. Again, available at Media 65.

Joomla 1.5 Templatebuilder for Dreamweaver

This Dreamweaver extension installs a menu bar for inserting the common code snippets needed in your Joomla templates. It’s created and maintained by Daniel Duvald and can be downloaded from Joomla.org.

NewJoomlaBar

This extension for Dreamweaver allows you thanks to an interface simple to generate the various portions of codes php to be placed in your templates in order to post the modules of positioning, the body of page, heading HTML and other functions useful to Joomla.

More info at Joomla.org.

Dreamweaver Snippet Collection: Template Basics

Snippets are handy little pieces of code that can be entered into your document to save time and to have more consistency with code. The first Snippet Collection is all the code you need to make a basic Joomla! template. It includes 3 folders of snippets: Basics, Dynamic Objects and Module Positions.

More info at Joomla.org.

Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) which help building websites and other powerful online applications. Joomla can change from simple or personal homepages to complex corporate web applications for example, corporate websites or portals, online commerce, or small business websites. Joomla can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

Furthermore, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody. Joomla’s package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble with installing and running Joomla application, and there is plenty of support available information for rookies. Joomla community has a growing, active community of more than 150,000 friendly users and developers on our forums eager to help.

Once Joomla is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla site. Via a simple, browser-based interface user will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on the web site.

Source :
http://www.joomla.org

Joomla news :
1. Joomla Forms - Live Public Hands On Demo Available Now
http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2008/06/30/joomla-forms-live-public-hands-on-demo-available-now/
2. Joomlashack Releases its latest native Joomla 1.5 Template
http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/Joomlashack-Releases-its-latest-native-Joomla-1.5- Template.html
3. JContact Released Powerful Email Newsletters for Joomla 1.5
http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/JContact-Released—Powerful-Email-Newsletters-for-Joomla- 1.5.html

RSS is a type of XML (Extensible Markup Language) format. It used for updating the content and show it on that web pages which show only the title. When users click on the link, it will show the description of the content from the original which title of news can updated according to the original. When you want to take the content tot show it will show 3 parts are content provider, web designer and users. The Strong point of RSS is all users don’t need to all web sites to check for updating. All of web sites have different in how often to update. RSS will help users to update those contents without entering those web sites. In the present RSS is well-known in international web sites such as google, Yahoo!, CNet and organization web sites which need to have distribution content, they will provide RSS services. You can see the sign on those web sites.

Atom is similar with RSS. It was created by developers who didn’t appreciate with RSS. Atom format is stable in February 2004 in version 0.3. Difference point between RSS an Atom is Atom is more complex than RSS. It can take more complex information, and it is consistent across the syndication, storage and editing of information.

RSS and Atom is tools that can help all party who surf internet that need to update information or content constantly. Web developers can update those contents without updated their web site frequently which they need to update it every times they need to update new content. RSS and Atom can reduce the copying content in web site focusing on violating copyright. RSS and Atom will link that content automatically to their web sites.

Resource: http://www.whatisrss.com/

News:

E-mail with your peanuts? Airline tests in-flight Web access
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/06/25/airborneinternet.ap/index.html

Learning Joomla Has Never Been Easier!
http://www.joomla.org/content/view/5136/33/

Professional CSS Gives Developers a Peek into the Process of the Best CSS Designers in the World
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080626005337&newsLang=en

Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of technologies which suitable for interpretation and display by a web browser or other web-based. The goal of web design is to create a web site that presents content to the end user in the form of web pages. Such elements as text, forms, and bit-mapped images those can be placed on the page by using HTML, XHTML, or XML tags. Plug-ins is also embedded into web pages by using HTML or XHTML tags because some kind of complex media displaying is needed. (E.g. Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc.)
Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic.

1. Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a manually updates the page.
2. Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on the end-user’s input or interaction or changes in the computing environment The content can be changed on the client side (end-user’s computer) by using client-side scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Action script, media players and PDF reader plug-ins, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (PHP, ASP, Perl, Cold fusion, JSP, Python, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.
With growing specialization within communication design and information technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics of all web-based services.

Original Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_design

Related News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7266201.stm
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1668035,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics
http://drawlogic.com/2007/06/01/loading-external-css-stylesheets-in-flash9-as3-cs3/

When we want our website to get a top ranking in Search Engines, we need to add the “meta tags” to web pages although Meta tags is not a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines.

Meta tags is not Title tag. Meta tags are information inserted into the “head” area of your web pages and is not seen by those viewing your pages in browsers. Meta tags are used to communicate information with the bot of search engines. Two common types of meta tags is Meta Keyword & Meta Description . It place between the “opening” and “closing” HTML HEAG tags.

For Search Engine, the title tag & meta tag are crucial because they use this tag as one of the most important factors of search engine’s algorithm. In addition, all major crawlers will use the text of title tag as the title for listing of the website. As the above sentence, meta tags is not a guaranteed way to gain a top raking because it is not every search engine crawl the meta tags. Google is the one of the three Major search engine in the world and Google ignores the meta keyword & meta description tag and instead will automatically generate its own description for web page.

You may have the question about “Still want to use the meta tag?”. I can answer that we still need to use the meta tag because another search engine like Yahoo, MSN, and etc are still crawl the meta tag. It is the strategy to get more traffic with diffuse the link to gain better ranking in search engine include Google.

Resource : http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931

News:
Google will remove all search queries after 18 to 24 months
http://www.ifergan.org/world-seo-news/google-will-remove-all-search-queries-after-18-to-24- months.html

Next Generation SEO Tactics
http://www.ifergan.org/world-seo-news/next-generation-seo-tactics.html

Joomla & Mambo Adsense module
http://www.ifergan.org/joomla-mambo-adsense-module-2.html

Summary

A programming technique called AJAX, is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. This is not a new technology; rather, it is a combination of older technologies that most browsers now support. This technology it’s really fast because webpage will request only small information from the server instead of whole page.
For example, when a customer goes to our apparel design tool, they are taken into what feels like an actual application for designing a shirt. They are prompted to add an image and text and can easily manipulate the text and images to create exactly the product they want.

sources:

AJAX Introduction
http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/ajax_intro.asp
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News Ref.

Google improves its AJAX toolkit
http://news.cnet.com/Google-improves-its-AJAX-toolkit/2110-1032_3-6136063.html?tag=topicIndex

AJAX News: stay one step ahead with the very best and latest in AJAX from around the world
http://www.c-point.com/ajax_news.php

CICS and AJAX
http://mainframeweekly.blogspot.com/2006/10/cics-and-ajax.html

What is CSS?
What are cascading style sheets? Let’s suppose for a minute that you wanted all your paragraphs in a multi-page document to be center-aligned. If you omit the attribute and value for the

tag, what do you think the browser will do? It will simply use its default setting, which is left-aligned. So, every time you create a new paragraph, you have to remember to type in the attribute and the value. If you forget, your document won’t look like you want it to be.
Now that would be no big deal if you only had to deal with one or two pages and one or two tags, but what if you are dealing with a website that has 50 pages and hundreds of different tags.
CSS was introduced in late 1996, as an elegant cousin to HTML that promised several things, including:

• more precise control than ever before over layout, fonts, colors, backgrounds, and other typographical effects;
• a way to update the appearance and formatting of an unlimited number of pages by changing just one document;
• compatibility across browsers and platforms; and
• less code, smaller pages, and faster downloads.
CSS represents the Word Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) effort to improve on the tag and attribute based style of formatting. The idea is that style sheets provide a way of customizing a whole page and even whole sites at one time and in much richer detail than the simple use of tags and attributes.
Plus, CSS is sort of like the cornerstone of Dynamic HTML, which is another subject that you should investigate. We aren’t going to get into that subject too much other than to show you how to add DHTML effects to your web using Front Page and possibly importing some already created DHTML applets into your web.
So CSS is a technology that gives you, as a webmaster, much more control over all these things that you would ever have in HTML alone. So let’s dig in to the basics.

Conclusion
It is worth the effort to learn and implement CSS’s because they provide unsurpassed control over the layout of Web pages. They’re also the most efficient way to maintain and update a large site, and they make for smaller pages that download faster.
CSS works through individual style sheets rules that consist of selectors and declarations. These rules can be embedded in an HTML document, linked to or from an HTML document, imported to an HTML document, or added inline within an HTML document. Each method of adding CSS to Web pages has its own benefits.

Resource : http://techapps.esc2.net/resources/m_Web_Mastery/Day2/Intro%20to%20CSS.doc