Technology

Flash content on the internet definitely gives the wow factor to it’s viewers. All that’s required is a free brower plugin download to allow complex animations, interactivity and video content. It’s reported that 99% of pc users have Adobe Flash Player already installed. Some of the biggest websites use Flash to deliver content, such as youtube.com which uses Flash to deliver its video. Most games on Facebook.com use Flash technology. So if it’s so great, why isn’t everybody using it for their websites? Some possible reasons include: Read more… »

Using the best image format for the job

jpeg/jpg files
These type of files are best used for photographs and images which contain gradients. Not the best format to use for flat blocks of colour, as you can sometimes get a ‘halo’ effect around the edges of contrasting colour. Jpeg technology has got better, it just means that you have to create a higher quality jpeg which in turn increases filesize. The colour pallet for jpegs is a lot higher, and you won’t get the grainy ‘pixelly’ effect that you get with gif images. Read more… »

Flash is a very versatile plugin for internet browsers used to display a variety of media.

It is used for:

• Interactive Banner Advertising
• Animation
• Streaming Video (as used on youtube.com)
• games (as used on facebook.com)
• Offline presentations
• Website applications (mp3 players, photo galleries etc)
• Simple 3D animation

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A Content Management System is simply a way for a website owner to update his pages via the internet. It involves some kind of admin area he can log into and make changes to existing pages, add pages etc.

Usually a CMS is build into a preset template page, meaning you will add pages based on that template. So in that sense its not a way to ‘build websites’ from the ground up. Read more… »