A Content Management System or Static Website?
Each website is built for a different purpose, which could be to sell a business’ products online, or simply as a brochure to show potential customers what a business does, and then to attract them to contacting the business for more information.

Business and Internet: Moving Your Systems Online
Some time ago, a person asked me to develop some software for his company. He needed a management system. He didn’t want an out-of-the-box system, he wanted something that resembled perfectly the way his company worked. The sales process involved salesmen travelling different states. I still remember his surprise when I suggested implementing the system over a web based platform. He had never before thought of the company using the web for anything else than email and the institutional ...

Content Management Systems - Choosing the Right One for You
Content management systems are everywhere on the web these days, helping thousands of web contributors pump out robust sites loaded with content with easy and constant fresh updates. Whether you're looking to build a deeply functional community-based web site overnight, or just too lazy to learn how to code a professional and good-looking network of pages yourself; chances are there's a content management system (CMS) out there for you.

Creating A Custom Button
This article is a simple step-by-step guide for webmasters who want to create a Google toolbar "push button" with an icon that navigates to a site, displays an RSS feeds of that site in a drop down menu; host the button and make it available on their website. This type of button is a great way to gather all the sites of interest to you in one place in an attractive way.

Electronic Signature Solutions - Custom or 3rd Party
Many businesses, in an effort to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, are turning to electronic signatures. Keeping files electronic from creation through distribution and signature and into networked storage helps to eliminate expenses in almost every aspect of the business. Deciding how to implement an electronic signature solution into the business can be a daunting task.

First Steps To Starting A Site - An Example
A dog is rumored to be man’s best friend. There are lots and lost of men. Sounds like a good subject for a site that will make us rich, Rich, RICH! Okay, I got a bit carried away.

Focus Groups - How to Run Them
A focus group involves encouraging an invited group of participants to share their thoughts, feelings, attitudes and ideas on certain subject. Organising focus groups within an organisation can also be very useful in getting buy-in to a project from within that company.

In October 2006 the Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum `2006 will take place
The forum objective is to promote development of Ukrainian market of software development and IT Outsourcing Services. Ukraine has rather good potential for development of the most high tech area of world economy. Ukrainian IT Outsourcing market demonstrates high growth rate. During several recent years average growth rate summed up to 40% annually. This index has been one the highest for the Ukrainian economy and illustrates great opportunities of the industry. Ukrainian High-Tech Initiative ...

Searching Your Own Website
I'm sure you've often seen a search function on websites. Now, I'm not talking about a box that lets you search the entire internet from one particular site. Sites like Google and Ask.com have those, and many of them allow you to put their search on your site.

Semantic Web Development
Semantic Web Modelling Centre of Excellence IntroductionSemantic Web Development and dealing with complexity is a tricky issue. Representing information is a problem where complexity can preclude any single approach. In order to find our way around large quantities of information it needs to be structured. But the information already exists and is still being created, so this makes it a moving target.I'm sure such matters will be covered at the www2006 ...

The Brother in Law Syndrome Applied to Websites
The Syndrome This article could have been named “my neighbor down the street” syndrome or “my niece” syndrome. It’s really a “fill in the blank” syndrome that indicates a person’s response to the thought process for developing (or re-developing) a website for your company. This syndrome kicks in when your response is “Oh, my brother-in-law does websites, he can do one for our company”.Have you uttered those words? Do you know of someone who has said that before? To an ...

Usability Testing with Children
Usability testing with children is similar in many respects to usability testing with adults. In order to get the most out of the sessions, and ensure the child is comfortable and happy, there are a few differences that you need to be aware of.

Using PHP for Website Navigation, Explained.
PHP can be very useful in your webiste design, I use PHP for my websites difficult functions such as forums, blogs, chat, user forms, and shopping cart interface. But did you know you can use simple PHP for your website navigation systems?

Website Accessibility Testing - Beyond Automation
Automated website accessibility testing can be a very useful process. It often reveals many issues which would take a human tester many times longer to uncover. It’s a bit like using a spell / grammar checker on a long article. But, just as a human editor is essential in any serious writing, hands on testing essential in any serious usability testing effort for the handicapped. Below are the steps we take beyond automated accessibility tests.

Writing Semantic HTML
Semantic HTML means using HTML tags for their implied meaning, rather than just using (meaningless) div and span tags for absolutely everything. Why would you want to do this? Depending on the tag, the content in the tag can be interpreted in a certain way. Here are some examples.