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Hi everybody! I hope you guys are getting ready for Christmas. This is certainly my favorite season and today we had some snow that made me realize that good things have time tables. Opportunities come and go, and for a small business owner, making the best out of those opportunities is crucial. Many fail to inactivity, many fail to over activity without results. I myself feel like I work a lot and get very little in exchange. Read the rest of this entry »
I have always being the kind of person that I can’t trust what the media says out-of-the-box. Why? Well, because many times I have seen that they are not always telling the truth. More importantly, they don’t call it lying, they just tell you a modified version of the truth. They are extremely good in the use of words and creating news instead of reporting what they really see.
One thing that I have been following lately is the “recovery” of the US economy. If you take a look at the last 9 months of the DOW JONES an index that for the most part represents the US (stock market), you would see that it has been going up and and up and up. Read the rest of this entry »
In the first sessions we have taken a look at how understand the markup and styles. However, it is extremely important to understand that most professional design doesn’t happen directly in code. Most website design happens in the traditional graphic design work-flow.
In this session we will take a look at the basics of CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. And as its name implies, it is a sheet that determines styles in a cascading way.
The styles can be written inline with your markup, at the header of your html documents or in separate pages (sheets). Those sheets get called from the markup and called to style the markup. In other words, the markup stands by itself and looks like a succession of tags that only stand semantically. This helps the purpose of improving the way that search engines read the content. Why? Because they don’t care about the way it looks. They only care about the content.
The cascading means that they are applied in the order that they are encountered. In other words, if you place a style for the heading tags and then later override the directive with another style, the latter would be applied. The cascading also means that they are applied in order of specificity. What that means is that the more specific the selector would be used.
The sheet defines the “style” of the elements of the markup. You select a tag and then you write directive on how you want those tags to be displayed. Read the rest of this entry »
In this episode Alex Centeno MBA. from Merkados, shows you how to install the necessary code to retrieve the IP addresses of your visitors using Google Analytics.
This online marketing technique can be modified to be used with other scripting languages other than PHP, however, in this case, the languages used are PHP and Javascript. Read the rest of this entry »
OK, in our first session of our series “Learning website design” we looked at our favorite tools to get the job done. In this one, I will explain the main concepts of how the web works and also an introduction on how websites do their job.
It is important to understand what HTTP is. It stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. Hypertext is the text that can be linked to other pieces of content (other text). Think of a protocol as a set of rules or directives that allow computers (browsers) to interpret a language. For example, when you extend your hand forward to another person, they “understand” that they are supposed to “shake” your hand in a gesture that means “welcome” or “hello”. That understanding is a protocol. The protocol of HyperText Markup simply defines what the rules are for a browser to be able to interpret it and display it in a human-readable way. Read the rest of this entry »
