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Here you can find basic informations about technical tools, useful for the production of high quality
websites. Explicite examples of products made with one of those techniques can be activated with navigation left. HTML The basic language for description of web pages (HyperText Markup Language). Following this link, you will find websites desigend in the classical way , which - exactly as the page you are reading right now - builds on clear and effective HTML. XHTML New language describing webpages (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language), which will replace HTML in the future. XHTML was developed by the internet consortium W3C in collaboration with the German company Mozquito AG who were the first to invent a working crossbrowser XHTML dialect called XHTML-FML to create dynamic online forms. The basic idea of XHTML is to have a new basic language which has stricter conceptual rules than HTML. This results in cleaner code and the possibility to develop countless new markup languages and dialects. JavaSript This famous script language helps to run dynamic applications through static HTML pages (some results of it are also called DHTML: DynamicHTML). People use JavaScript for processing mathematical operations within the website, for changing pictures, fonts, colours and running on-the-fly other graphical modifications. PHP A script language useful for automatisation of various processes on a website. You can use it to send form data, for interactive changes on a page triggered by the user, to communicate with your database through the browser window. Just imagine you don't have any programming knowledge and do not want to pay your own backend administrator every day, but you need to make updates on your website daily or often : post news, change the sortiment of your online catalogue, control who populated your online form, if a package has already been shipped, etc. With the help of PHP, we can create an administration area, easy to understand for all non-geeks, which makes those interactive operations possible without programming knowhow. This makes PHP a strong, professional language. MySQL To make the organisation, storage and analysis of data (text, pictures, values) possible, you need a database as a part of the concept. For our customers, we work with the database language MySQL. Flash Quite a young technology for creating websites. It is a vector based tool helping to make pages very dynamic. Here you can work with pictures, graphics and text and mix them to a sort of "magic". It means your Flash application can fade away, fade over to another one, rotate, get smaller or bigger. There is a bunch of other neat animation techniques you can use and run with Flash. Another advantage lies in the cross-browser-compatibility. Regardless if IE or Netscape, PC or Mac - the interreted results in a Flash looking always the same. Only minus: not every user has the necessary plug-in for Flash already installed in his machine when he gets to know our webpage. In this case, the page will alert him and ask him to download the plugin. Frames First of all, frames help to separate your contents into two independent areas within the same browser window. E.G. those pages are made of 3 frames: The upper frame, which cannot be changed (so there is no need to reload it again and again). The second frame left down shows almost not-changing subnavigation. Only the lower right frame will be reloaded, which is for the contents. Another advantage is the fact that if your document is longer than a monitor page, you have to scroll as usual. But the left frame is independent from the scroll process - it always remains left above. Good for the users - when they want to continue surfing, they do not need to scroll back to the top of the current page. |