Web Design
Micro Update staff are passionate about web design, social networking and business software solutions, including mobile smart phone applications. This Blog focuses on publishing articles on those things that we have found interesting on the web – and hopefully others will also find interesting. Please comment and give us some feedback.
Modern, fresh and maintainable websites need a combination of design, layout, social networking, should be able to be maintained by the customer, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) to get you ranked highly with the search engines, hosting, content management systems, mobile phone integration – hopefully here you will find articles that help you on that journey – some technical – some light hearted.
There are now millions of websites, Micro Update (a business based in Newton Abbot, Devon) help to make sure that your web presence reflects your personality as a business and that you are visible to your customers and prospective customers. That’s why we like local businesses – people we can talk to, face to face, and find out exactly what YOU want.
Read: Web DesignKompoZer – Easy Web Authoring – FREE
KompoZer – Easy web authoring
KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.Key features of Kompozer:
- WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter with your word processor.
- Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from your site.
- Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today’s most popular browsers.
- Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs.
- Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages a snap.
- Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates.
- The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for Desktop Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users.
Making Websites Mobile Friendly
Making Websites Mobile Friendly
Making website more mobile friendly – Google article on how to make your website more friendly for those people browsing using a mobile phone. This article from Google looks at both SmartPhones and traditional mobile phones (using WAP, etc.). It then talks about how Googlebot-Mobile trawls your website and the user-agent strings that help it ascertain the information required for mobile phones. The format used being:
[Phone name(s)] (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1;
+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
The article then goes on to talk about:
*/ Websites with only Desktop Experience Content
*/ Websites with Dedicated Mobile Content
DeviantART – Free textures
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Deviant Art has some wonderful backgrounds for textures and other graphics. Well worth a look as many of them are royalty and distribution free.
SimpleDiagrams, Git and jQuery Mobile
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The SimpleDiagrams Free Version has enough features to create your diagrams quickly and export your work to PNG. If you like what you see, you can update to the Full Version and you’ll then be able too save your work, publish your diagrams to sites like Basecamp, and work with multiple fonts.
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Using Git for web app deployment
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jQuery Mobile application development
Framework jQuery Mobile appeared not so long time ago and its quality was greatly improved. A number of subsystems have been rewritten (both for clarity and for performance) and cross-browser compatibility has seen a marked increase in quality. Previously I’ve worked with jQTouch and Sencha Touch. They both have their advantages and disadvantages, but I’d like to focus on the development on jQuery Mobile. Now I’m going to describe the process of creation of the simple application with several pages, Twitter integration, Google Maps and a set of basic elements.
SimpleDiagrams FREE adobe air application to wireframe and design drafts