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<p>April was a "Jane of all Trades, Master of None" for many years. She "fell into" learning how to work online after she was struck with Fibromyalgia and had to give up her sign shop. She dedicates her days to, Website Design, and Building, Graphic Design, Training Videos, Helping Others Online and Much More! You can visit her at: <a href="http://justaprylsworld.com">JustApryl’s World!</a></p>

April was a “Jane of all Trades, Master of None” for many years. She “fell into” learning how to work online after she was struck with Fibromyalgia and had to give up her sign shop. She dedicates her days to, Website Design, and Building, Graphic Design, Training Videos, Helping Others Online and Much More! You can visit her at: JustApryl’s World!

Academic Studies Abroad Wins Design Award - by Chelsea Kaloupek

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Chelsea Kaloupek
434 Massachusetts Ave - Suite 501
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: 888-845-4272
http://www.academicstudies.com
info@academicstudies.com

Academic Studies Abroad Wins Design Award

Boston, MA - February 24, 2006 - Academic Studies Abroad, a leading study abroad company, was awarded a DesignFirmsTM Design Awards for their website www.academicstudies.com.

“This award further illustrates our commitment to not only having a website that is easy to navigate and user-friendly, but also graphically exciting,” said Programs Director Lee Frankel. “My hat goes off to Heidi Finn, our Graphic Artist, who once again showed how valuable her skills are to us and our customers.”

Founded in 1999, Academic Studies Abroad sends college students to study abroad programs in Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, and England. They have used the services of Heidi Finn since their inception.

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About Web Templates - by Lucia Ortnerova

WEB TEMPLATES

A web template is a tool used to separate content from presentation on the web design, and to the massive production of web documents. It runs in the context of a template system.
Websites often require regular content updates, and standardization of appearance. A news website, for example, needs to be daily updated. Each news item will be contextualized by a standard presentation (page layout, structure, etc.). A typical strategy to automate this standardization is:

1. choose a web template system to maintain the website;
2. specify the “presentation standards” through web templates;
3. specify and update the content on a database.

WEB DESIGN

Web design is the design of web pages, websites and web applications using HTML, CSS, images, and other media.
Web design is part of starting a website (web development) which can include web server configuration, writing web applications and server security.

A website is a collection of information about a particular topic or subject. Designing a website is defined as the arrangement and creation of web pages that in turn make up a website. A web page consists of information for which the website is developed. For example, a website might be compared to a book, where each page of the book is a web page.
A website typically consists of text and images. The first page of a website is known as the Home page or Index. Some websites use what is commonly called an Enter Page. Enter pages might include a welcome message, language/region selection, or disclaimer. Each web page within a website is an HTML file which has its own URL. After each web page is created, they are typically linked together using a navigation menu composed of hyperlinks.
Once a website is completed, it must be published or uploaded in order to be viewable to the public over the internet. This is done using an FTP client. Once published, the webmaster may use a variety of techniques to increase the traffic, or hits, that the website receives. This may include submitting the website to a search engine such as Google or Yahoo, exchanging links with other websites, creating affiliations with similar websites, etc.
A relatively new technique for creating websites called Remote Scripting has allowed more dynamic use of the web without the use of Flash or other specialized plug-ins. Leading the various techniques is Ajax, although other methods are still common, as Ajax is not a fully developed standard.

WEB PAGES

A web page or webpage is a resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation to other web pages via hypertext links.
Web pages may be retrieved from a local computer or from a remote web server. The web server may restrict pages to a private network, e.g. a corporate intranet, or it may publish pages on the World Wide Web. Web pages are requested and served from web servers using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Web pages may consist of files of static text within the web server’s file system (static web pages), or the web server may read files of computer code that instruct it how to construct the (X)HTML for each web page when it is requested by a browser (dynamic web pages).
Web page is the main type of (and a referential for) web document.

WEB TEMPLATES SYSTEM

A web template system is a kind of “View subsystem” in a Model-View-Controller (MVC or similar) design pattern, to separate presentation from content, on web document production. A web template system is characterized by:

1. Template engine: the software, it processes input, transforming into web document. It have two typical entities on input:
a) Web template: a recipe with web document fragments, to transform content into web documents.
b) Content resource: a input supplier, like a SQL database or a XML file.
2. Template language standards: the language of the recipe.

Websites often require regular content updates, and standardization of appearance.
A news website, for example, needs to be daily updated. Each news item will be contextualized by a standard presentation (page layout, structure, etc.). A typical strategy to automate this standardization is:

1. choose a web template system to maintain the website;
2. group news items into sets, with different presentation needs;
3. specify the “presentation standards” through web templates, for each set of news;
4. specify a content resource to generate or update the content of each news item.

The idea behind the “template method” is to separate content (data) from presentation (data representation), and to separate business-logic from presentation-logic. It have many advantages in using:

1. Ease of design change
2. Ease of interface localization
3. Possibility to work separately on design and code by different people at one and the same time
4. Etc.

PAGE LAYOUT

Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. Beginning from early illuminated pages in hand-copied books of the Middle Ages and proceeding down to intricate modern magazine and catalog layouts, proper page design has long been a consideration in printed material. With print media, elements usually consist of type (text), images (pictures), and occasionally place-holder graphics for elements that are not printed with ink such as die/laser cutting, foil stamping or blind embossing.

Since the advent of personal computing, page layout skills have expanded to electronic media as well as print media. The electronic page is better known as a (GUI) graphical user interface. Page layout for interactive media overlaps with (and is often called) interface design. This usually includes GUI elements and multimedia in addition to text and still images. Interactivity takes page layout skills from planning attraction and eye flow to the next level of planning user experience in collaboration with software engineers and creative directors.

A page layout can be designed in a rough paper and pencil sketch before producing, or produced during the design process to the final form. Both design and production can be achieved using hand tools or page layout software. Producing the most popular electronic page (the web page) may require knowledge of markup languages along with WYSIWYG editors to compensate for incompatibility between platforms. Special considerations must be made for how the layout of an HTML page will change (reflow) when resized by the end-user. cascading style sheets are often required to keep the page layout consistent between web browsers.

Lucia Ortnerova is owner of www.freetemplates.sk

A Whole New eBallgame: Web Firm Expands Services - by Shaun Nestor

StormFront Development, a Puyallup, Washington based web design studio, has expanded to offer web site critiques and promotion tips. (PRWEB) September 1, 2004 — The ever-changing world of the internet demands a greater attention to detail than marketing campaigns in the past. The typical internet user makes a decision within 30 seconds whether or not they will stay at a website. Because of this, it is critical for business websites to maintain the most up-to-date design techniques. StormFront Development, a web design firm based in Puyallup, Washington, has expanded to offer web site critiques for business web sites. “It has expanded to so much more than building a website and waiting for people to buy.” StormFront owner, Shaun Nestor says, “Consumers are very picky and will not tolerate a poorly designed website.” StormFront Development offers an in-depth look at a client’s website and offers several ways to improve the design of the site. “We look at functionality, accessibility, aesthetics, and presentation.” Nestor says. The service also includes an analysis of a website’s ranking to competitor sites, search engine ranking, keywords, and details that can penalize a website. “Many website owners don’t know it, but the littlest details can cause them to be bumped from page one down to page three of four on the search engine results page. Poor results can make or break a sale.” Nestor says about the service. “We want our client’s website to succeed. We take the time to walk them through the report and offer suggestions to correct the issues we found.” StormFront Development was founded in 1999 by Nestor. StormFront is based in Puyallup, Washington and offers web design, hosting, and critiquing services to many small- to mid-sized businesses in the Puget Sound area. More information can be found at the company’s website: http://www.StormFrontDevelopment.com

A solution to your graphic design needs - Rextag - by Ken Wilson

Rextag Strategies is a San Diego website design company, a name familiar on the market because of its achievements in what concerns work related to company branding: logos, business cards, flyers, brochures, websites and much more. In case you didn’t know, it’s time you found out that San Diego is nowadays almost famous for the creativity of its citizens, which lead to the birth of a lot of “creative advertising boutiques”. However, Rextag is different and this article wants to prove it.

Graphic design San Diego and advertising strategies are Rextag Strategies’ strongest and most important services offered to its clients with the contribution of an original, hard working team, fully specialized in both professional design concepts and technical issues. Not all San Diego website design companies have the same professional principles when working with clients. For example, Rextag professionals always know that the final product is very important as it has to be representative for the company, eye-catching, but also to permit obtaining measurable results. In other companies, the graphic design San Diego is seen as an artistic work, the designers following only the appearance issues and not giving much importance to the market results of the promotional ads.

People who have seen work done by Rextag Strategies have probably been pleasantly surprised by the friendly tonality of all their materials and the depth understanding of their clients’ needs. Talking to some of their business partners we have found out that “among all the San Diego website design companies I have worked with, Rextag Strategies is by far the best and I really like its employees because of the care and attention they pay to their work”. Another client stated that: “If you are looking for graphic design San Diego, San Diego companies seem to be very professional at first, but I was disappointed by a lot of them. Rextag provided exactly what I was looking for. While some people I worked with didn’t understand my work and weren’t able to deliver the right message to the targeted audience, working with Rextag Strategies has definitely changed the opinion I used to have about graphic design in San Diego. They were very creative, very patient, they worked hard to acknowledge as much as possible our business and they delivered the right product”.

So, if your business requires some creativity, take your chance with Rextag Strategies and your company’s image will improve for sure. They will provide your business with anything you need from: flyers, postcards, business cards, ads and logos to brochures and books, all professionally designed according to your desires. Rextag.com is also a San Diego website design company that can also perform graphic design San Diego when a websites has to be built to extend someone’s business online. In a few words, they have everything you need!

Please visit this website to find out more about the services provided by this San Diego website design company. You will not regret working with them on graphic design San Diego!

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