Although the term “cloud” is seeing increasing use, it’s necessary to clarify what portion of “the cloud” is of interest to a particular audience. For small and medium businesses (SMBs), there are generally two areas of relevance in the evolution of IT services to the cloud. The first is the application layer, commonly referred [...]
By Gail Seymour
Whether you want to become a professional Web developer or you just want to use Web-authoring software like Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression to create your own Web sites, at some point it’s going to help to understand the code the program generates when you export your pages. continue »
By Melissa J. Luther
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the basic language of the Web. This language is constantly evolving, and HTML5 (note there is no space in HTML5) is the newest major revision. It drops some elements from version 4 and introduces new ones to take advantage of how modern Web developers work in Web 2.0. continue »
By Mac Cassity
How are your emails faring? Do they look dynamic and eye catching? Or are you still writing plain text emails that are begging to be deleted the moment they arrive in someone’s inbox? continue »
By Hostway
As the holiday season approaches, online business owners are brainstorming about how to claim their share of the billions of dollars expected for this year’s online holiday sales. continue »
By Hostway
You’re on your way to building a Web site. You have your logo, your images, your copy and even a video. Next step? Developing your Web site with Web authoring software. continue »
An HTML editor is a software program that allows you to create and edit code using HTML and other programming languages. continue »
Programming is what distinguishes the Web from print materials by allowing users to interact with the content. You can program a page using programming languages, sets of rules or instructions that tell the computer to produce a particular result. Scripting languages are high-level programming languages processed at run-time. You can use them to create dynamic features on your Web pages. continue »
HTML is the language that creates a framework of a Web page, telling a browser how to display everything from text to images and even other scripts. While you can use a WYSIWYG editor to write your HTML code for you, anyone interested in Web programming should start with a good understanding of how to write HTML from scratch. continue »
XHTML is a programming language that replaces HTML as the framework of a Web page. But, to begin learning XHTML, you need a good understanding of HTML. It is a very close copy of HTML, but has stricter rules, making it more adaptable to various platforms. continue »
PHP is a scripting language embedded into HTML Web pages to create dynamic features. When your Internet browser requests a Web page with PHP components, the PHP code runs on the server and generates a Web page with unique content. That customized Web page is sent to your browser. continue »
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