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What Are Web Standards?

Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 16:34

Web standards are the structures set by the World Wide Web Consortium that will allow the Internet to reach its full potential. These standards help ensure that everyone has access to the information we are providing, and also make web development faster and more enjoyable.

Standards compliance makes it easier for people with special needs to use the Web. Blind people may have their computer read web pages to them. People with poor eyesight may have pages rearranged and magnified for easier reading. And people using hand-held devices can browse the Web just as easily as those using high-end workstations.

I’d like to give credit for Berea Street for their wonderful rationale for adhering to Web Standards.

1. Maximize the number of potential visitors to a website

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Web Designers

Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 16:29

Lwebg’s web designers specialize in creating a website that inspires viewers to take a long look at the products and services our clients offer.  Our overriding goal is to build a web presence that turns viewers into customers. Our web design business experience includes Fortune 100 companies, major newspapers, national magazines and advertising agencies.

Click here to view our web design portfolio.

Websites developed by LwebG’s web designers are guaranteed to meet all accessibility and usability standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the International Webmasters Association and the HTML Writers Guild.

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How do tables affect a website?

Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 14:09

Most amateur website designers use html tables when they’re creating a web page. In the late 1990s, when the dot-com boom led to a rapid growth in the ‘new media’ of web page creation and design, there began a trend of using HTML tables, and their rows, columns and table cells, to control the layout of whole web pages.

This was partly due to the limitations at the time of CSS support in major browsers, partly due to the new web designers’ lack of familiarity with CSS or with reasons (including HTML semantics and web accessibility) not to use any simple way quickly to achieve whatever layout they wanted, and partly due to a new breed of WYSIWYG web design tools such as Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe GoLive and Dreamweaver that encouraged this practice.

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SEO Hokesters Are Everywhere

Submitted by grawlings on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 18:28

It never ceases to amaze me how many crooks have chosen to invade the SEO space and something that happened to some clients of mine really take the cake.

Without getting into the specifics of their SEO ripoff deals, let me just say that there are no easy, cheap, fast ways to raise a website in search engine rankings. There are no companies “out there” that have special relationships with Google that help them raise your SEO rankings. Sorry if you’ve been ripped off, but that’s the way it is.

SEO takes work and it takes time. You can’t trick the Googlebot and you best not mislead it either. The Googlebot can be your friend or it can be your worst enemy. Just depends on how you treat it.

If you really want to learn about the RIGHT way to optimize a website through SEO, check out my SEO section at http://www.louisvillewebgroup.com/SEO. Then contact me if you’d like to discuss.

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LwebG Launches Great Sleep!

Submitted by grawlings on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 17:26

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a terrific new eCommerce website that we’ve built for one of America’s largest bedding manufacturers that can be found at http://www.greatsleep.com. We built this website in Magento Commerce and the team leader on the project was Michael Baker for LwebG and Sheila Patterson for Great Sleep. They did an awesome job and we’re really pleased to be able to work with these folks.

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Best Ecommerce Sites and Examples

Submitted by grawlings on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 16:13

E-commerce is best described as the art of doing business online…people can buy things, sell things, pay dues, pay bills, make reservations, take donations and handle virtually any kind of financial transaction that once required either a face or face, a telephone or snail mail interaction with the ease of a few clicks of a mouse.

E-Commerce is one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet despite the fact that there have already been many fortunes made selling merchandise online and the big players have long since established strong online e-commerce positions.

TIME Digital’s Bill Syken, offers the following rankings of the “major players” in e-commerce.

BEST OVERALL:

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Parsley-Waldman Hair Center Now Live!

Submitted by grawlings on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 17:06

We’ve just finished a new website for Drs. William Parsley and Mark Waldman. Drs. Parsley and Waldman own one of America’s most respected hair transplant centers and we’re delighted they chose LwebG to handle the development tasks on their behalf. The website, located at www.hairlosstreatmentclinic.com, was developed with SEO in mind and we’re now in the early stages of optimizing the website thoroughly for search engines.

The next web design project, this one developed under the direction of Mark Waldman, MD, is for their dermatology practice, Advance Dermatology of Louisville. We’ll publish the site to the domain www.dermatologylouisville.com and it, too, will score high with search engines.

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What is CSS?

Submitted by admin on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 12:52

CSS is the language for describing the presentation of Web pages. This includes colors, layout, and font information, as well as how to change the presentation on different types of devices, such as those with large screens, small screens, or printers. CSS is independent of HTML and can be used with any XML-based markup language. The separation of HTML from CSS makes it easier to maintain the code, share style sheets across pages, and tailor pages to different environments. This is referred to as the separation of structure (or content) from presentation.

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What is HTML?

Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/27/2010 - 16:38

HTML is the language of the Internet Revolution. HTML is the language for describing the structure of Web pages and gives web designers the means to:

  • Publish online documents with headings, text, tables, lists, photos, etc.
  • Retrieve online information via hypertext links, at the click of a button.
  • Design forms for conducting transactions with remote services, for use in searching for information, making reservations, ordering products, etc.
  • Include spread-sheets, video clips, sound clips, and other applications directly in their documents.

HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items.

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