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Web Design
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Internet Overview Introduction In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds. The objective was to develop communication protocols which would allow networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple, linked packet networks. This was called the Internetting project and the system of networks which emerged from the research was known as the Internet. The system of protocols which was developed over the course of this research effort became known as the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, after the two initial protocols developed: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP). Read the full story here |
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| When surfing the Internet remember that if you click a link and want to go back to the original page, it is much easier if you open the link in a new window, which is done in different ways in different browsers, but in Internet Explorer and Opera, it is achievd by holding down SHIFT when clicking the link; and in Mozilla and Netscape by holding down the CTRL key when clicking the link. |
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Today all companies need a presence on the internet. Whether it is just a page with contact details and brief information, or a fully-interactive customer experience, or an online shop, it needs to look professional and in tune with your company’s own style and goals.
Are your competitors already on the world wide web? Or is now the time to get on people’s comptuer screens before the others do. You need a site that promotes your company/ product/ service/ you, and that stands out without looking just the same as the rest.
For personal or small business customers.
Web Pages
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Creating web sites today means putting together web pages, graphics, forms, animations, links and more. We can make a web page or a full site for you or your business/organisation. We can turn your ideas into something that anyone in the world can view on their computer. You can have just one page, which could have your logo, contact details, a summary of what you do/offer/sell, pictures of your products/services, and a link for people to send email to you. Click for example. For those customers without existing internet access, we can set up an email account with messages forwarded to you for a small fee. If you expect to receive a large amount of email, you should consider investing in some form of email receiving equipment, either a computer connected to the internet, TV email, mobile phone email, email to fax service, or email phone. If you need a website with a lot more than just one page, then you can have as many pages as you need, with linked pages, graphics, details of your products and services, special offers, feedback pages, and information about your company. If you want a personal site, you might want to have photos and information on your family, your hobby, your interests, or anything else that you want. Pages on the site can be given an overall look and feel, according to your own house style, or a completely new style, for a professional look. All pages will contain the information you specify (subject to legalities and technical suitability), and checked for spelling, grammar and working links. Click here for a selection of sites designed.
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Web Graphics |
A website is not complete without graphics. You may already have a website but need to jazz it up a little with some appropriate pictures, photos or graphical devices. To put images on the web, pictures are normally in GIF or JPG format. Conversion from other formats of supplied images can be made without loss of quality, and the image can be optimised for lowest possible file size to ensure quickest possible time for the graphic to appear on the page (without reducing size of the image). Images can also be resized, or made into greyscale or colour images as appropriate. Images can be sent on disk, or via email, or prints to be scanned. Graphics can be created from scratch, using your own ideas/designs, or we can design something new for you. It is important to remember that graphics should be small enough to load quickly, large enough to look good, and of a high enough quality to be viewable on all computer systems. |
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Animations |
Graphics can also be made to animate by placing them on layers and animating the layer. Click here to see an example. Flash animations are more complex, and most browsers today have the necessary plug-in to view Flash movies. Those that don’t can easily add the plug-in by downloading it from the Macromedia site. When someone tries to view a Flash movie on a web page and does not have the plug-in, a message will appear prompting them to install the plug-in. Flash movies can contain all sorts of information, text, images, sounds, even mini-games. If you can view the Flash movie below then you have the plug-in: (Click here to view Flash movie in separate window)
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HTML Editing |
Sometimes it is necessary to make changes to pages that require editing of the HTML coding. No special software is needed to edit HTML code, you can use a simple text editor. But without proper knowledge of the HTML programming language it is easy to make mistakes. Visual web page designers can sometimes add unnecessary repeated code in webpages, HTML editing allows these to be removed without affecting the page design. |
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Website Updating |
Do you have a website already but need to update it? If you don't know where to turn ZAXdtp can help. If we design a site or page for you, it can be updated later. Sometimes
you just need a small modification, perhaps on a regular basis. This
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Photos on the Net |
Do you have a number of photos that you would like to share with friends and family around the country or the world? Send us your photos, they can be scanned into the computer and placed on a web site of your choice. Depending on where the photos are posted there may be an ongoing hosting charge. We can scan photos up to A4 size, and transparencies up to 101 by 127 mm. Your photographs can be scanned into the computer and altered in numerous ways. Simple effects such as altering lighting, colours, colour to black and white, mixing images, altering colours, adding textures, cropping images. |
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Site Hosting |
If
you need your site to be hosted, we can provide space for your site,
using your own domain name. |
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File Types
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When you need to put a file on the internet, you need to be aware of your audience and how they will view it. A web page is HTML format (Hyper Text Markup Language), and it can contain images (JPEG, GIF), animations (GIF, SWF), as well as links to other files that can be downloaded or displayed such as PDF. Some image types cannot be displayed properly in web browsers, they have to be converted to JPEG or GIF. Formats that need converting include: TIFF, BMP, RLE, PCX, PSD, PDD, CDR, CMX, WMF, EPS, AI. Documents can be distributed easily on the web using the Acrobat PDF format. Any document that can be printed can be converted to PDF and put on a website. PDF stands for Portable Document Format, and was developed by Adobe. To read PDF files, the user needs the free program from Adobe called Acrobat Reader. The latest version can be downloaded for free from www.adobe.com. |
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Note: All services for
PC only. Users of other computer systems are advised to ensure
they can use IBM-compatible disks and files. Any file supplied
in an incompatible format cannot be used. Send all files in PC
format to ensure compatibility. We use IBM-compatible PCs running
Windows. Linux services may be added in the future.
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Another
form of graphic you can have on a web page is an animation, of which
there are two basic types: animated GIFs and Flash. Animated GIFs,
like the ones shown here, are useful for small repeated animations
that can grab attention, illustrate a point, or liven up a page.
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