I’m sure you’ve heard about podcasting and perhaps, as I did when I first heard it, wondered what on earth is podcasting. It’s gained much popularity since the media have started offering podcasts on news items as well as music. The word podcast is a merger between ipod and broadcasting. You listen to a podcast, [...]
From the monthly archives:
October 2008
JavaScript is often used on websites to make them look good, improve how they work or provide features and functionality that a static HTML page cannot achieve. But what is it and how does it work? Not to be confused with Java, a programming language written by Sun corporation, JavaScript is a client-side scripting language [...]
By now you must have heard the phrase ‘usability’ being bandied about in discussions on web design. But just what is usability and why is it so topical? Visitors won’t use your web site if they can’t find their way around it. Usability is the art and science of making the navigation and functional aspects [...]
Probably the most well-known ecommerce sites are the booksellers Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Sites like these are where ecommerce is at it’s most complex, because the shopping carts are custom designed and developed. A custom shopping cart will have a merchant account and may host secure, encrypted webpages with digital certificates. These provide safe [...]
