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Adhering to Web Standards Imporves Business Websites

Taking web standards into account when designing a website may not be a primary concern for many site owners, but when it comes to finding an extra edge to improve their business, they are more than willing to do anything required to increase revenues. Let’s see how complying with Web standards can help a business website.
What are the Standards?
On the Web, the main standards are the languages used when creating websites. The most wide-spread ones are HTML, XHTML and CSS. HTML or XHTML are used to create the backbone of websites – the structure. (The difference between HTML and XHTML is that XHTML was formed from XML and is forward compatible.) CSS, in turn, is used to style, format and position the structure and content.
What is Web Standards Compliance?
Put simply, web standards compliance is using web languages correctly. This involves using HTML tags properly and the way they were and are intended to be used. For instance, one of the most common felonies against the web standards is using table tags for layout, while the correct usage is to use them only for tabular data (information to be put in tables).
Benefits of Standards Compliance
Creating quality, standards compliant code has a number of benefits:
_ website forward compatibility
_ increased site download speed
_ browser compatibility
_ easier site maintenance
_ broader target audience

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Elements To Improve Web Site Navigation

As you browse the Web, you will find sites that implement just about every type of navigation scheme you can think of and then even some more!
However, certain common factors do emerge. The use of menu bars, either horizontally or vertically oriented, are the most common way of allowing users to move through your site.
Sites with a great deal of content often implement dynamic menu bars that change to present the most relevant options on each page. Sites often use some kind of "feedback" or special effect to let users know where certain navigation elements are located, such as graphics that change colors when the users point their mouse at them.
You can use a variety of technologies and design elements to implement Web site navigation. As you consider different navigation techniques, keep the following seven basic comparison factors in mind:

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Análisis de webs corporativas

Repsol YPF, Cepsa, Gas Natural y Endesa disponen de las mejores webs corporativas del sector Energía y Utilities de entre todas las compañías que operan en España, según la clasificación del Informe sobre este Sector en Internet elaborado por la consultora Capgemini, mediante una metodología que pondera criterios de negocio, técnicos y de diseño.
Según informa la firma en nota de prensa, el informe analiza las webs corporativas del sector energético y de utilities de compañías que operan en España clasificadas en tres sectores de actividad: petróleo, electricidad y gas, y agua. Se han excluido de la evaluación los sitos web protegidos o con acceso restringido.

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The New Marketing Landscape

Many of us in the marketing services and/or agency business are starting to see some real tangible marketing patterns emerging that businesses need to be aware of if they want to leverage their marketing dollars in this “post .com implosion economy.”
_ Good Web Site Design Increasingly More Important
_ Opt-

Content is King

Eight Simple Steps For Enhancing Your Website
To be successful with your online business, whether you are selling your own product, services or are selling for other merchants as an aff

Investing in Usability: Testing versus Training

Usability is rooted in research and testing
Usability can be considered both an attribute and a process. Usability is an attribute when people characterize something as having “

¿Qué es la usabilidad?

La usabilidad (del inglés usability) es un atributo de calidad de una página o sitio Web, que determina la sencillez de la interfaz para ser utilizada. También se refiere a los métodos que mejoran la facilidad de uso durante el proceso de diseño.

El concepto de usabilidad alude a la mayor o menor capacidad de un software para ser comprendido, aprendido, usado y atractivo para el usuario, en unas condiciones especí­ficas de uso.

Qué es la usabilidad, concepto, ideologiaHay que lograr que el diseño de las aplicaciones informáticas y Webs se adapte a los potenciales usuarios y contribuya a facilitar su uso. Paralelamente a este proceso, se realizan pruebas de compatibilidad con diferentes equipos y sistemas operativos.

En definitiva, el objetivo principal es resolver inquietudes más allá de las técnicas propias de funcionalidad y analizar de forma integral la experiencia del usuario.

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