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Web Team Roles And Responsibilities

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Many people are involved in any web project. Different web projects require different web teams who have their roles and responsibilities.

Content Expert/Client:
Mostly a Content Expert is a Client who determines the project objectives, target audience and user needs, site information and its architecture, provides content materials and other additional resources, provide feedback on content, design and development. Client is the best person who knows the subject matters and requirements of the web site.

Requirements Modeler:
This person is responsible for the collection and maintenance of the system requirements. He is responsible to collect all necessary information of the requirements of the clients and understands how to utilize the design activities accordingly.

Project Manager:
Planning and management of all human and technological elements of the project. His responsibilities includes interaction with client, planning, budgeting, designing of basic concept, management of all other team members involved, supervising the content, technical development, site testing, release and its evaluation, and management of project completion within the time limit and within the budget.

System Architect:
Construction of structure on which the entire web project is to be build is the responsibility of System Architect. To perform this activity lot of skill is required which include excellent modeling skill and he should be experienced with various systems and various designs. His role includes deciding how to organize the content of the website, how to link different web pages and the navigation of all web pages.

System Developer:
He is responsible to build the functionality of the website. They are responsible for integrating components, developing new components and conducting the detailed design of the system.

Content Developer/Content Writer:
This person develops the content of the website that is the information to be provided on the website. His responsibilities includes knowing the content needs, designing the layout of content, research about the content and creating a new content, HTML coding and validating, processing images and maintenance of the content.

Web Designer:
Web Designer is responsible to configure the information and functionalities of the website for effective communication. They work with graphic designer and system developer to make the information and its layout more effective and more real.

Graphic Designer:
The responsibility of Graphic Designer is to prepare the content and layout for the final system which includes photographs, videos, music clips, and much more. He is responsible for developing the overall look of the website to make it more stylish and presentable. He solves the problems which are related to the graphic layout of the web pages, typography, color combinations and the overall consistency. Image processing and web optimization, developing HTML templates and browser/platform testing of the HTML layouts is also done by Graphic Designer.

Configuration Manager:
This person is responsible for the management of configuration which includes configuration identification, control, auditing and status accounting.

System Tester:
Verification and Validation of all the components of the system that whether they are constructed according to the requirements or not is done by system tester. He does the detailed study of each and every components of the website methodically.

All these persons are involved in the designing and development of the website and by the team work of all of them only it is possible to build a successful website which meets clients requirements.

Role Of A Webmaster In Creating And Maintaining A Website

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A webmaster is a person who handles the maintenance of a website making sure that the web servers, hardware and software function systematically. He is the sole architect of the information contained in a website that includes both words and pictures. He has other responsibilities like designing the website, generating and revising web pages, replying to user comments and analyzing traffic through the site. A webmaster is generally qualified in HTML and other scripting languages like JavaScript, PHP and Perl. They may also require a thorough knowledge of configuring web servers such as Apache (web server software that played a significant role in the development of the World Wide Web) and serve as the server administrator.

Companies that hire a webmaster usually have different roles for them that depend on their requirements or financial state. In a smaller company, typical webmaster is responsible for many functions simultaneously. In a larger company, a webmaster is hired on account of their sound technical knowledge and programming skills and who has specialized in a certain area of expertise. There may be a team of webmasters who take over the overall corporate web design and policies and work with people who provide the company with its network infrastructure and supervise the design of the companys website. There may be additional web developers whose duties are to organize and develop the web content. All these various departments of webmasters inter-relate the creation of a website, content and organization, for the corporations intranet.

The essential qualities to look for in an efficient webmaster are intelligence, enthusiasm for web technology, exceptionally good communication skills, thoroughness and an eye for detail, integrity, ability to be an efficient team player, courtesy, professionalism, experience in web development and finally knowledge of Perl, UNIX, HTML, CGI and JavaScript. Other than constant maintenance of websites and their designs and management of web servers, they must also possess knowledge of Perl programming, maintenance of site maps, maintenance of mirror sites, assistance in site promotion, writing entries for the glossary, providing top level user support, maintenance of search engine index, HTML validation, generation of the top 100 page from the access logs, monitoring the error logs and reporting potential problems, verification on the validity of the links on the site, checking presentation and readability in different browsers available at various platforms, editing the content, maintenance of the quality and style of the site, finding, creating and installing tools to develop web content and eventually check them for consistency and development of interactive web applications.

Some of the most basic roles of a webmaster in general are as follows:

– HTML Authoring: They need an understanding of HTML 2.0, 3.2, 4, Dynamic HTML including other extensions like tables, frames, server-push/client-pull, server-side includes etc.

– CGI Scripting: Includes having knowledge of Perl, C and UNIX shell scripts.

– Basic Graphic Designing: Must possess the ability to develop attractive web pages that live up to the given standards.

– Internet Awareness: Must be well acquainted with issues concerning the Internet and the World Wide Web.

– General UNIX and PC (MS-Windows) awareness

– Basic knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking

– Graphic Designing skills: An apprehension of graphics applications and techniques like Photoshop, Fractal Painter, 3D modeling and so on.

– Customer Awareness: Must have the capacity to manage a professional relationship with the customers and work within their requirements.

– WWW Server Configuration: Must show proficiency in NCSA, CERN, Apache, and Netscape Commercial Server – including NSAPI.

Html5 – Not Designed For Business Applications

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HTML5 – Not Designed for Business Applications

HTML5 is the next version of HTML to come along since version 4.0 in 1997.

HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language and HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of web pages. The Internet would not exist as we know it today without HTML.

But HTML is not a programming language at all. This concept is confusing to some people. Web pages rely on a scripting language such as JavaScript in order to respond to user input. Think of it as HTML being a car and JavaScript being the engine.

JavaScript was introduced in 1995 by Netscape and coincidentally, that’s when the web started to really “take off”. This is an important fact to consider before we dig deeper into HTML5.

The open source nature of HTML and JavaScript has contributed to the growth of the Internet as a whole. Source code and design ideas are often borrowed from around the web and even from competitor’s web sites. This is facilitated by the fact that HTML and JavaScript are impossible to hide or protect.

HTML5 is no different!

There has been a lot of talk about HTML5 over the past couple of years and developers think that HTML5 is “cool” and “fun” to work with. But the logic ends there.

As usual with most new technologies, there has been confusion and misinformation over when HTML5 should be used and for what purpose. We aim to enlighten you about what HTML5 can and can’t do in this article.

New Features Same Old Concept

HTML5 includes new features such as the “Canvas” element, along with audio, video and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) content, some of which replace the “object” tags of HTML4. There have also been some modifications and standardization of tags such as (a, cite, menu) but the basic concept of HTML remains the same in HTML5.

Who’s Promoting HTML5?

HTML5 was originally proposed by Opera Software (makers of the Opera web browser) and designed by the World Wide Web Consortium, also known as W3C.

An important point is that the W3C has been criticized as being dominated by larger organizations and thus writing standards that represent their interests.

The large organizations (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Google and Facebook) have promoted HTML5 as the most up to date technology for web development. In fact the late Steve Jobs termed HTML5 as the win-win solution for consuming any kind of web content on all types of web platforms. But it is important to note that Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook each have an incentive for promoting HTML5; each own and operate very profitable “app” stores such as the Windows Marketplace, Google App Store, iTunes App Store, Facebook Canvas Apps, etc. Protection of intellectual property and trade secrets is of little or no concern to those companies and in fact it is almost a conflict of interest.

Fact #1: HTML5 is based on JavaScript, which is impossible to protect. Yes, that’s a fact!

As we discussed a moment ago, JavaScript is the core “language” of HTML5, whose source code is impossible to protect. The most evident reason is that anyone can view HTML5 and JavaScript source by just a simple click. JavaScript was never intended to be anything more than an engine for client-server communication and re-useable web content, including menus, buttons, tabs and the like.

Developers may argue that they can mangle JavaScript source code by obfuscation and pseudo-encryption (such as “minification”, where the code is compressed and “minified”). But this is a dangerously false sense of security. Any skilled developer can reverse engineer a “minified” or “obfuscated” JavaScript application. By design, JavaScript cannot be encrypted and it cannot be hidden. JavaScript files must be downloaded in order to run in a web browser.

To make matters worse, JavaScript also cannot be locked down to a specific web domain.

The code is accessible to be hacked by any competitor. No matter how many steps are taken to hide the JavaScript, the web browser eventually downloads the JavaScript file to run it within the client’s web browser.

For comparison, hacking a Flash or Silverlight application just by viewing the source is not very easy but anyone with a little knowledge of HTML5 can do it in minutes.

The hacks of famous HTML5 games like AngryBirds, Texas Holdem and many others are excellent examples of the insecure techniques employed by HTML5 developers. All security measures are useless once the code has been obtained and reverse engineered. No matter what any HTML5 or JavaScript developer may claim, these facts are true and irrefutable!

Fact #2: The concept of HTML5 Canvas is nothing new.

As we discussed already, HTML5 is based on the same concepts of HTML4. The most useful and talked about feature of HTML5 is the new “Canvas” object. Canvas makes it easy for JavaScript developers to “paint” within a web browser, simplifying the design of applications that utilize graphics. But you may be surprised to know that this functionality has been available in a simulated manner with very little attention since the release of HTML4.

Fact #3: There is a widespread misconception about HTML5

HTML5 has been labeled as a “cross platform programming language” which is a serious misconception. It is true that HTML5 is capable of running on all types of platforms such as Windows, Linux, Android and other mobile operating systems but let’s not forget that HTML5 is nothing more than web page markup, which is controlled by JavaScript. Classifying HTML5 and JavaScript as a true programming language would be incorrect. It is a browser integrated language that cannot utilize all the features of the underlying operating system.

When Should You Use HTML5?

The answer is quite simple. Use HTML5 when you do not care about your source code, intellectual property, or trade secrets. If you do not care that a competitor may steal your source code after it has been uploaded to your web site then use HTML5. As you can see, HTML5 is perfect for buttons, menus and website specific content, for which it was designed.

The Bottom Line – Better Options Available

The bottom line is that HTML5 and JavaScript are great for a lot of things, but you can’t effectively protect anything that you develop with them. This clearly doesn’t add up if you are using these technologies for developing business applications, which they were not designed for.

If you are developing a web application then consider using Flash or Silverlight, both of which run in all popular web browsers for desktop operating system, including Windows, Mac and Linux.

If you are developing a mobile application, there are far better options for iPhone, iPad and Android development that afford better protection of trade secrets, better security, performance and usability for the end user and also allow you to take advantage of the native features of the underlying operating systems. For iOS (iPad and iPhone), use the Object C programming language. For Android, use the Java programming language.

For Windows development, consider C++, C#, Delphi or other proven languages.

Although slightly more difficult to develop with, Objective C, C++, C#, Java and other low level languages are always the best option no matter if you are developing desktop, web, or mobile applications.

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About the Author

Richard Gardner is Founder/CEO of Modulus Financial Engineering, Inc. In addition to his leadership role of the firms team members, Richard is an influential member of the financial technology industry at large, a globally-respected professional trader and software engineer, a guest speaker at industry conferences and among the inventors on over 70 technology patents.

Web design Sydney choosing between HTML and CMS web design

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Whether you are a small company trying to start your business or, a large company trying to expand your business; if you are entering the online market, it is important to have a website that gives complete information about your company, and your products and services. Your website must be easy to understand and navigate in order to generate sales and business revenues for you.

Of the various aspects that need to be considered when designing and developing a website, the most important one is to choose between HTML web design Sydney and CMS web design Sydney. HTML and CMS are two web design concepts. The choice of the web design concept depends on the scope of the website and the particular needs and requirements of the website owner.

For simple websites that only require a few pages of information for the web users, one can use HTML web design. HTML web design option is recommended for websites that do not require daily updates and blog pages or advanced functionalities. Creating basic HTML web pages doesn’t cost much and allows the business owner to obtain its online objectives without spending much.

However, for a more complicated site, it is advisable to use CMS or content management system in creating web design Sydney. Websites that are powered by CMS are highly versatile and dynamic in nature. They allow website owners to easily alter the website content or add images and graphics on their own. Altering CMS web design Sydney is quite easy and doesn’t require any professional training in web designing and processing.

CMS website design Sydney is easy to maintain in the long run and is perfect for businesses where clients have lot of requirements and the market competition is extremely tough. CMS website design Sydney allows business owners to update their websites regularly and to stay ahead of their competitors in the market.

In order to take the appropriate decision and to get the best web design Sydney, it is recommended to hire professional web designers. Professional web design consultants would analyse your business and your online business goals and targets and based on that would offer you the best web design solutions and services. With the help of the professional web design company in Sydney, you would be able to get the best web design for attracting web users to your site and influencing them to buy your products or services.

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Get Up And Running With These Web Design Tips

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Have you ever seen a website that you were just really impressed with? From layout to graphic design, there are many elements which turn a website from good to great. Here, you will learn some of these tricks. So keep reading and take note of what you read.

If you’re designing a website, make sure the code you write has a valid HTML+CSS. Although most browsers can make sense of code that isn’t valid, it could be rendered correctly or incorrectly. Valid code will render the same way most of the time in modern browsers. You can check the validity of your HTML code with an HTML validator.

On the Internet today, speed is where it’s at. So you must make sure everything on your site loads fast. If your website takes ages to load, they will wash their hands of your site and find one that loads in a reasonable amount of time.

You don’t ever want to use too much graphics. Graphics are indeed important to make your website look well-designed and professional, but if you use too many, it just looks cluttered. Don’t just use graphics to decorate the website; they should be used to make it better. Having the right mix of graphics will improve your site’s usability, too.

Keep the sizes of your files and images small. Excessive loading times are a death knell for any site. The larger the files are that must load, the longer a user’s load time is going to be. Most users will click away if the page doesn’t start to load within the first few seconds of opening your page.

Build your website using a content management system. Knowing how to build a website using just HTML and CSS is good foundation knowledge, but this can only produce a static website. Web design has evolved into providing dynamic content. If you couple your coding skills with the use of a content management system, you can practically build any type of website that you desire.

Add a link where your visitors can send you feedback. You will find out if a link is broken or if a page is not loading properly. If a visitor feel involved, he or she will want to see your website again.

Minimize the amount of clicking or scrolling visitors must do to access information. The more a user has to click or scroll around to find the information they seek, the more likely they are to give up looking for it. Aim for having at least 400 words on every page of your site by combining pages that have content that falls below this number of words.

Make text easy to ready by using colors that contrast or backgrounds that are easy to read text on. When your text is harder to read because the background or text color creates eye strain or portions of text that are unreadable, site visitors are less likely to stick around.

Now you know some great places to begin with web design. Write down what you enjoyed about other sites, and figure out how to incorporate them into your site. Enjoy the process and remember to continue learning.

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