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The quality of content and design of a website have a major impact on the success of a website. A good quality website take a holistic approach towards it's over all look and feel, content quality, user friendliness, and accessibility. Here are some points that help you determine a quality website:

1. Page Layout: A good website is appealing to its target set of users. It consists of a consistent navigation area along with a classy header and logo. The page layout must be such that the flow of information is easy to navigate through. Good quality websites use high resolution images, and avoid horizontal scrolling.

2. Browser Compatibility & Navigation: A good website will ensure that it is compatible to all popular browsers such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Navigation links must be labeled, and easy to locate and use. Enhance accessibility by providing text links as well, in cases where images and flash is used for links. A good quality website will always include a site map on the web site to ensure easy accessibility.

3. Accuracy of Information: It is vital that the content presented on the website is technically accurate, crisp and not repetitive. The content flow must be easy to go through and interesting. It is recommended that one avoids duplication of information. If the same information is relevant on more than one web page, it is ideal to provide links to the original page containing the information.

4. Over all Look & Feel: A good website will aim at creating a pleasing and classy environment for users. Avoid using too many colors limited to a maximum of 3 or 4. Use the colors to your benefit to project consistency through the website as against making it a source of distraction. It is ok to use graphics but make sure it does not hinder the speed of the website download.

5. Presentation of Content: The way the content is displayed on the website is as important the type of content that is displayed. Quality websites do not experiment with fonts and stick to common fonts such as Times New Roman or Garamond. The content needs to be formatted so that it is easy to read and pleasing to the eye. Clear definition of the headers, conclusions and body in bullet points, makes it easier for readers to comprehend the information.

Over all, it takes a lot of hard work to develop a good quality website that meets the requirements and needs of the organization as well as the users. A good quality website can take companies a long way in developing a long term relationship with customers.

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The main idea behind the concept of separating the content from its presentation is to allow website developers a useful framework to develop their website giving them the ability to change the website’s appearance whenever they like without needing to redo the content structure. This article will explain the rationale behind separating content from presentation.

Don’t get me wrong, there isn’t just one method for implementing this concept. More than that, since the introduction of technologies such as CGI, ASP, and PHP that allow web developers to generate dynamic web pages, a lot of companies have found creative ways to develop their website applications using this concept as their foundation.

Over the past few years, the internet community has been trying to create a set of standards for creating web sites. A new technology called CSS or Cascading Style Sheets has been introduced. There is nothing actually new in the way CSS handles a web page’s presentation. CSS allows the developer to define a style for each html tag element. This is similar to the method developers (programmers) used in the old days when they attached a variable to each html tag defining its style. The major difference is that CSS style definitions can be interpreted by most of the existing browsers available while in the older method the dynamic web page engine performs the interpretation.

The internet standards organization W3C has encouraged the use of CSS by enhancing its ability to control the web page’s look and feel. New style options have been added to the CSS specifications that have not been added to the HTML description language. There’s no doubt that this was a smart move. It’s forced web developers to use CSS to achieve an attractive web page that also supports the principle of content separation. Unfortunately CSS did not find its way into the internet mainstream easily because of compatibility issues with most web browsers. These days CSS is widely supported by most of the major web browsers, while CSS2, an enhanced version of CSS still has serious compatibility issues.

Obviously, the separation of content from its presentation deals not only with the styling aspects, but also with browser compatibility issues. The styling aspects were the first to be handled by web developers and web designers. As the complexity of information technology (IT) systems become increasingly more difficult to maintain, the internet community is looking for a solution that will become a standard so that content can be easily be managed. One goal for this standard is to define a “language” that IT systems can “talk” with each other and exchange information. Large corporations have historically used many different software platforms in their networks to conduct business. Internet based applications can provide a single platform that can act as an intermediary between all of these different systems and allow communication between them.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) has been adopted as a standard to present the content itself. OFX (Open Financial Exchange) is a close relative of XML that has been widely used by financial institutions who have been using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems to transmit orders and invoices over private networks, intranets and the internet for several years.

The need to present the content in a standard way that separates it from any design elements was so urgent that for the first time in software development history all the three major players (SUN, IBM, and Microsoft) actually agreed with each other and XML become a standard almost overnight and was adopted by many content providers and news agencies.




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