Articles On Designing, Coding And Marketing Your Website

Web Functionality Testing Tips and Tricks
by Ghulam Kubra ( g.kubra@gmail.com ) -  7th Jul 2007

Web Functionality Testing verifies that a web application does what it is supposed to do; conformance to user's stated and implied needs. With the increased popularity of automated testing tools, one finds Web Functionality Testing just a piece of cake. However, to enjoy the real essence of testing, a thorough understanding of the areas to be tested is required, prior to executing functional test suite. This article serves the purpose of highlighting at an abstract level those significant areas accompanied by some basic testing guidelines. ...

Motivating and Managing Employee – A Positive Approach
by Hadi Ejaz Ahmed 27th Jan 2007

How important is motivation? It makes all the difference. You may be the most knowledgeable, experienced, talented and capable manager in the world. But if your employees are lacking in motivation, mediocrity will creep into your organization. With an organization like Ultimus the main issue was that managers today were not hired as managers they are all technical guys who with there experience with the company promoted to the next level as manager. ...

The Role Of Navigability and Crawlability in SEO
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  17th Apr 2006

There are so many important factors that count towards a success in search engine optimisation and there is a wealth of knowledge articles available to read on this topic. The two important factors I am going to discuss here today are navigability and crawlability. Although crawlability is generally the one which seems to be the one related to SEO, navigability also has a great impact on a website's search engine rankings. A site with good navigability makes it easier for search engines to find all important pages and content of that website. ...

From HTML to XHTML
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  2nd Mar 2006

HTML has been the most successful publishing language for web pages since the beginning of the World Wide Web (WWW). HTML 4.01 is the last W3C recommended version after 2.0 and 3.2. It supports the tags in the earlier versions and has got additional support for more multimedia, scripting languages, style sheets, better printing facilities and accessibility. Apart from all the goods with HTML, it has been treated as a 'let go' language by both developers and browsers. ...

Standardise Your Forms, Accessible / Usable Forms
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  8th Feb 2006

Forms are one of the primary means of getting information from users and a basic element of any interactive website. With web standards, accessibility and usability on the menu everywhere, it is time to check your form for standards. This article is an attempt to cover both usability and accessibility aspects of forms. With all the necessary techniques applied to a form, it will look well organised, easy to use and accessible to audience with disabilities (specifically visual in this case) and those using a screen reader. ...

Testing Guidelines For Non Functional Testing
by Ghulam Kubra ( g.kubra@gmail.com ) -  20th Dec 2005

World Wide Web has revolutionized the traditional ways of acquiring and sharing information. Consequently, the nature and behaviour of the websites have introduced vital software testing challenges. Normally in depth coverage is given to functionality aspect of the website, while the non-functional testing remains un-explored.

This article describes the major aspects that need to be focused while conducting non-functional testing. ...

Choose a hosting package. How confusing !!
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  31st Oct 2005

Choosing a web host is often a difficult and confusing job with ever increasing options made avilable from time to time especially for new website owners. After looking at a few web-hosting packages, you would start wondering which one is actually the most suitable? Should I go for a shared hosting or a dedicated one? Is Unix better that Windows platform? Tens of questions like these start rolling round your head when you want to choose a web host. The purpose of this article is to make it as simpler as possible to choose a web host, if you ever happen to choose one for your own site. ...

A Few MySQL Tips You Might Not Know
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  15th Oct 2005

MySQL is a database server suitable for small and a little bigger sized database applications. It has been the all time favourite since its creation. It works on windows as well as Unix / Linux but when run on Unix / Linux, it can provide multithreading which boosts its performance a lot. MySQL supports standards SQL (ANSI) and can be used with a variety of web technologies pretty efficiently. PHP with MySQL is one of the best combinations used by millions of websites and they are happy with it. ...

CSS Selectors. Did You Know All of Them
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  5th Oct 2005

When it comes to writing style sheets, many web designers only use and mostly only know about the class and id selectors or may be element selectors. But trust me there are many others. CSS2 has introduced even more selector types and although older browsers do not support some selector types, they are still worth taking a look. In this article I will explain all different types of CSS selectors along with their support on different browsers and versions. ...

Text Manipulation in PHP
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  2nd Oct 2005

Web content manipulation is one of the challeges faced by webmasters. Handling form feeds, different text formats and maniplating HTML tags in content can be tricky. Thanks to PHP which provides you with a variety of text manipulation functions. Using these functions you can achieve almost any desired text formats, handle any undesired situations and build an effective cotent management system for your website. In this article I will explain a few commonly used text manipulation techniques using PHP. ...

User Authentication in ASP .NET
by Asif Mahmood ( asiftaurusb@hotmail.com ) -  26th Sep 2005

Authentication is the process of obtaining identification credentials such as name and password from a user and validating those credentials against some authority. If the credentials are valid, the entity that submitted the credentials is considered an authenticated identity. Once an identity has been authenticated, the authorization process determines whether that identity has access to a given resource.

ASP.NET implements authentication through authentication providers, the code modules that contain the code necessary to authenticate the requestor's credentials. ASP. ...

A Few CSS Tricks You May Be Looking For
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  18th Sep 2005

CSS (cascading style sheets) has proven to be a great replacement for tables in website designing. Style sheets makes a website more accessible, fast loading, easily controllable, cleanly coded and sensible. But apart from some of the browser support issues, CSS can sometimes become tricky to achieve some effects with. New users of CSS will know the challenges faced by them when they start shifting towards CSS from tables. Below are a few tricks, which you might not have known before. ...

Search Engine Optimization - A science or Magic
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  4th Sep 2005

The procedures and methodologies used to design a website in such a way in order to improve its position in the search engines organic search results is called Search Engine Optimization shortly referred to as SEO. In other words, any legal actions performed and changes made to a website to increase traffic towards it from a search engine is called Search Engine Optimization. ...

12 Website Usability Tips
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  17th Aug 2005

Usability refers to the user experience about the effectiveness of a website to accomplish the desired tasks. It is about ease of use and good feelings. The perfect usability can only be achieved through iterative design and development. Learning from user experience, feedbacks, changing and refining are some of the ways it can be achieved. But there are some very common and perhaps basic aspects of designing a website which are being quite often ignored by the designers or otherwise overlooked. ...

A Checklist For Your Wesbite
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  14th Aug 2005

Websites are meant to be accessible, usable, user friendly, easily navigable, fast loading and search engine friendly. Designers and developers often busy in achieving the basic goals of design code miss many important and rather trivial things. I have been personally missing on things for quite a long time. Finding and editing common mistakes at a later stage can be hectic but it is still worth going through a checklist before committing any sins. I hope this list will serve a good purpose. ...

Internet Business - An overview
by Webmaster ( webmaster@binarytrends.com ) -  10th Aug 2005

Since the advent of computers and then the Internet, businesses and organisations have been rapidly moving and extending their businesses to the Internet. The most popular term used for the business over the internet, is E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce or transactions over the internet). Internet has proven to be the most effective way of communication and information exchange as well as the business. Amazon is one big example of a bookshop over the internet. ...