Web Standards that are followed today

July 8th, 2010 | Posted under Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting | 2 Comments »

Web Standards that are followed today

With the internet and World Wide Web playing a role in virtually every aspect of our lives, it is important that every website created conform to a set of accepted standards and technical specifications collectively referred to as Web Standards. These set of standards affect the development and administration of websites either directly or indirectly, and govern various aspects of the internet like interpretability, accessibility and usability of web pages. The following are the parameters considered while assessing web standards:

XML

Extensible mark up Language is a set of tools designed for emphasizing on simplicity, generality and usability over the internet in a textual data format. It focuses mainly on documents and is widely used to represent arbitrary data structures in web services.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets, used to describe the presentation semantics is enables the separation of document content from document presentation including elements like layouts, colours and fonts.

DOM

Document Object Model is instrumental in representation and interaction of objects associated with HTML, XHTML and XML documents. It has the unique features of being fast, memory efficient and being language independent.

ECMA script

This is one of the most widely used scripting languages, which has distinguishing features like class module system, bug fixing and backwards compatibility.

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Libraries based on Java and JavaScript

July 8th, 2010 | Posted under Computer Advice, Internet Trends, Software, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Libraries based on Java and JavaScript

With every passing day, automation is becoming increasingly popular; a well-programmed machine is replacing many men in almost every job. Even the horizons of programming language have broadened with time. Programming languages such as Java, C, C++ and scripts such as JavaScript, etc are being put to more use than ever before. Java and JavaScript with its wide range of libraries have proved to be a boon. Let us discuss some of the most useful libraries based on Java and JavaScript.

Ajax

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a group of technologies that uses a combination of HTML and CSS to create interactive web applications. It uses dynamic display and enhances the interaction between the information and the user.

JQuery

It is free, lightweight, open source software designed to simplify scripting on the part of the client. It can be used to create animations, handle events, create plug-ins and develop Ajax applications, thus enabling the creation of powerful and dynamic web pages.

JScript

This is another scripting language library that is used in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Jscript is nothing but the same as JavaScript but under the purview of Microsoft. However, it comes with the additional feature of supporting conditional compilation.

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Top web-optimized image formats

July 2nd, 2010 | Posted under Graphic Design, Internet Trends | 1 Comment »

Top web-optimized image formats

The World Wide Web offers huge content in terms of images to a user. But the limited internet bandwidth imposes a new kind factor as to what image formats are used for the web. Initially, bitmap images were used on the web. As time passed, the following image formats developed as the most popular on the web. They are optimized for size, and also so that a preview of the image can be shown while it is still being loaded.

JPEG

This is the most widely used image format on the web, because this was the first image format custom-made for the web. It has very low size and high compression rate of around 80-90%. However, it uses lossy compression, so image quality is degraded slightly.

GIF

This is an old standard and is still heavily used because it is small in size and allows for animation. This is often useful when showing a video with a very few frames, and is used quite often for this purpose.

PNG

This is a new image format that uses a lossless compression algorithm. It has a good compression factor and allows for transparency. It is gaining popularity and is set to take over JPEG as the web image format of the future.

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Top four viruses that shook the internet

July 2nd, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Top four viruses that shook the internet

While computer viruses have been causing mayhem in the cyber world for quite some time, some of them have certainly stood out for their ingenuity in making, spectacular methods and scale of damage in the virtual as well as the real world. Here are four of the most deadly viruses that literally shook the world wide web-

I love u

This multipurpose virus hit users through emails, IRC chats, files transfers and affected the registry. It was supposed to have originated in Philippines and caused an estimated damage of 8-10 billion USD.

Melissa

Developed by David L. Smith in New Jersey, who was later convicted, the virus operated through Microsoft Outlook and harvested the victims address book to forward itself to more victims which killed a lot of email servers.

My Doom Internet Worm

It originated in 2004 and worked in two stages. In the first stage, it infected Operating Systems and made them vulnerable and in the second stage, a few months later, it crashed and congested search engines like Google, thereby slowing them down.

Nimda

Nimda spelt backwards it reveals its prime targets: ‘admin’ and servers. It holds the record for the fastest spreading virus and used up to 5 different methods to infect computers, servers and websites.

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The Importance of Domain Named on SEO of a Website

July 2nd, 2010 | Posted under Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | 2 Comments »

The Importance of Domain Named on SEO of a

Website

The domain name of site on internet plays an integral part in proper working of the search engine. The rank of a website on search engine result depends matching of the keywords of the site name with the sentence being searched. Thus we must always give foremost importance to SEO while buying the domain name of the site. Then we can use the domain name of our site accordingly to increase the ranking of our website on search engine page.

Planning While Purchasing Domain Name

You must be careful of the keyword. Carefully choose those keywords and phrases which have right traffic and the competition among the other sites should be low. The name of the domain should be related to the sites and can be seen in the name.

Important Feature of SEO

Old domain names can create big differences in the ranking between top and bottom. Google created a logic SANDBOX which means new sites will not have good ranking to prevent spamming. Old site are more advantageous, so always try to get links from old sites names.

How to Get Higher Page Ranking Utilizing SEO

In spite of many arguments, links coming from the educational websites will give you a probability of getting higher ranking using SEO technique.

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Open Source Imaging Tools

June 28th, 2010 | Posted under BounceWeb Company, Software, Web Design Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Open Source Imaging Tools

In today’s world where everything comes at a cost the concept of freeware or open source software comes as a major boon considering the fact that it comes free of cost and most importantly it allows the user to experiment by means  of studying, changing and improving the software.  With improved cameras being easily available at affordable rates photography as a hobby is rising in popularity among the common masses. Therefore, it is natural that imaging software that helps edit, resize, and add effects to images are becoming increasingly popular. Let us look at some very useful open source imaging tools:

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is a high-end graphics application that can give a run to Adobe Photoshop on any application concerning cropping, editing, resizing and converting between image formats.

Inkscape

A vector graphics application, which is compatible with almost all operating systems in addition to having multi-lingual support, particularly for complex scripts.

Imagemagik

Another freeware, which provides a wide range of format conversion, image identification, with all popular features apart from the fact that it can be manipulated by programs in any programming language.

Photoscape

This is another powerful tool, which apart from providing a wide array of features is very easy to use.

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Web Security by VeriSign

June 28th, 2010 | Posted under Computer Advice, Internet Trends, Software, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Web Security by VeriSign

VeriSign one of the most popular and well known SSL brands, provides a high quality of security for e-commerce as well as communications over intranets, extranets as well as the Internet. Given the brand’s reputation for online security, several organizations choose its services just to provide their customers with the confidence of conducting online business without any apprehensions. VeriSign customer organizations have reported a considerable increase in their transactions after deploying the VeriSign Secured Seal to inform potential customers that they could carry out their online transactions under the protection of the VeriSign SSL.

Some characteristics of the VeriSign SSL security system are-

Authentication

The SSL certification is the proof that the site is not a “spoof” or a fake site, it is authentic. VeriSign’s authentication procedures are recognized throughout the industry, and a VeriSign certificate gives confidence that the site can be trusted.

Encryption

A VeriSign Digital Certificate, when correctly installed, provides a secure encrypted HTTPS connection, all data using this connection will be secured against interception or eavesdropping. Using a secured link will surely boost the confidence of the customers.

High Grade Security

A VeriSign Global Certificate provides the website with a 128bit SSL encryption, which is the strongest grade of encryption available.

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The Relationship between Web Hosting and SEO Results

June 28th, 2010 | Posted under The Internet, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | 1 Comment »

The Relationship between Web Hosting and SEO Results

The reliability and dependability of the web host is a significant attribute in the industry while determining how successful a website is.

Downtime and Crawlers

Search engines use crawlers to index the entire web, including your site. If the site is down when these crawlers visit it, the search engine cannot index any changes which you have made recently. As such, any optimization efforts made recently will not produce any results.

Server speed

You also need a host that has competent servers, and provides you with a  plan that allows you to utilize all the server resources to keep your website functioning smoothly, even if a lot of content has been uploaded to the site. Google rates the sites depending on how long someone stays at your webpage. So if people get annoyed due to slow loading and leave early, it will mean a drop in page rank.

IP Address

In case you are using a shared IP address with another website, and that site de-indexes itself from the search engine results, your site will suffer the same fate. As such, it is important to choose a host which allows you your own unique IP address.

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The Captcha Project

June 24th, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, The Internet | 1 Comment »

The Captcha Project

The Captcha test is technically a reverse turing test, as it is administered by a machine, and targeted towards a human as opposed to the turing test. Early Captchas were vulnerable to automated attacks as they used only background distortion with undistorted text and could be broken or deciphered using image processing. Again, accessibility is another key factor while implementing a Captcha. Captcha dependant solely on reading-based perceptions, will prevent the visually impaired from accessing the website, and as such, these sites must possess some alternatives, such as use of audio Captcha. Here we discuss some of the applications of Captcha:

Preventing comment spam in blogs

By using a Captcha, only humans can enter comments on a blog. Thus, automated programs which submit bogus comments are prevented.

Protecting website registration

By using Captcha as a part of registration process, free email providers ensure that only humans are allowed to sign up for email addresses.

Preventing dictionary attacks

By using Captcha, it is possible to prevent bots from attacking password systems this is done. This is done by preventing the bot from iterating through the entire password space by providing a Captcha after a certain number of unsuccessful attempts.

Captchas also provide a plausible solution against email worms and spam.

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SEO Article writing and its effectiveness

June 24th, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, The Internet, Web Hosting | 1 Comment »

SEO Article writing and its effectiveness

Most of the SEO articles in the web are not well composed, but somehow filled with keywords that would lead search engines to the site, to boost its ranking. However, while including articles into your SEO campaign, the most important factors which need to be considered are

• Providing correct information

• Popularizing the link

• Boost search engine rankings.

However, these objectives cannot be composed when the articles are badly composed with only keywords stuffed in them.

Articles are a powerful means of enhancing SEO efforts

However, articles with only optimized content, but failing to deliver in terms of valuable information, is not what the readers want. Such an article may increase the site rank, and even bring in traffic, but will never encourage visitors to explore the site. Poorly composed articles also fail when it comes to link popularizing, as they are not accepted for publishing.

Writing Search Engine specific articles

Writing search engine specific articles only comes in handy when you do not sacrifice quality of article for higher rankings by stuffing keywords or repetitions in the article.

Understand your target audience

Understanding the target audience, as focusing specifically on their needs and including quality content will help you develop as an article writer.

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