At the moment it feels like I am re-designing a navigation system that has probably already been built before. The reason for saying this is because the navigation controls provided to you by Visual Studio 2008 produce table-based layouts, which is not what I want for my website. I want my website to generate valid [...]
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How many sites actually use Silverlight? Silverlight is a Microsoft technology that allows you to create rich and dynamic content for the web. The same Silverlight applications can also be used as desktop applications with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). With that in mind I Googled for sites that actually use Silverlight in a live production [...]
I attended the Mix Essentials 2008 event at Canal Walk (Cape Town, South Africa) today and there were quite a few things that interested me. There were five speakers at the event: David Ives – Developer and Platform Strategy Group for Microsoft in South Africa – Microsoft Brad Abrams – Group Program Manager for the [...]
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Firstly determine the purpose and aim of the website. What do you want to achieve with the website? Determine the type of content you want to put on your website.Once you have determined the aim and purpose of your website you need to determine what the nature of the content on your website will be. [...]
One of the issues that has been plaguing me for the last couple of years is the issue of bringing the design of a website closer to the functional requirements of a website. Web development, in my opinion, involves the creation of frameworks that allow a business requirement to be effectively represented in a web-based [...]
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There are a couple of design techniques that I have not spent enough time to learn, or master. Web design is not one of my strong abilities, but it is a skill that I believe you can learn and become good at. As with a lot of things good web designs can be created by [...]