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Are you designing your website for widescreen monitors yet?

16 November 2011

Technology changes all the time, and the type of technology people like to use is always shifting. The latest fashion is to have screens that are much wider than they are tall - it makes for better video watching, and allows you to see more information on a screen in one go. Yet strangely, most websites are still the width of early 2000s monitors - around 800 pixels.

This means there is loads of wasted space on either side, and visitors have to scroll down two or three times to see all of the content that you could easily have fit on one screen if you had designed your website for wide screens. Let’s review a few basic concepts of web design, to see how we can take advantage of wide screen monitors.

Above The Fold

This is simply the term for the content that people can see when they visit your website, without having to scroll down. One of the most irritating things to find on a website is when the top screen is entirely taken up by a fancy header and advertisements, and all of the content you want is two or three mouse scrolls down.

With the advent of wide screen monitors, you can now take advantage of this landscape-style layout to present more content to your visitors at first glance. This means you can direct their attention to the things you want, and you can still have your header and advertisements in the same frame.

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The benefits of using AJAX technology to create interactive web applications

28 April 2010

Many advances in web technology have surfaced over the past decade many of which have helped web entrepreneurs and their respective businesses tremendously. One of the newer technologies on the market, made available around late 2005, is the Ajax system.

Technically, Ajax isnt any type of new software program. Ajax is a form of web development that works as a practice of sorts instead of being an object. Basically, users employ several various pre-existing technologies and together it forms Ajax a term coined by Jesse James Garret.

Ajax is made up of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Other technologies like Document Object Model (DOM) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) are also utilized with Ajax. Together, these technologies create one of the most effective web application tools in use today.

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