Child Care and Family Support Services
Fairfield CA
Client since Mar 2020
Friday, August 26, 2022
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
The Start of the Web and Web Design
In 1989, whilst working at CERN Tim Berners-Lee proposed to create a global hypertext project, which later became known as the World Wide Web. During 1991 to 1993 the World Wide Web was born. Text-only pages could be viewed using a simple line-mode browser. In 1993 Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, created the Mosaic browser. At the time there were multiple browsers, however the majority of them were Unix-based and naturally text heavy. There had been no integrated approach to graphic design elements such as images or sounds. The Mosaic browser broke this mould. The W3C was created in October 1994 to "lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability." This discouraged any one company from monopolizing a propriety browser and programming language, which could have altered the effect of the World Wide Web as a whole. The W3C continues to set standards, which can today be seen with JavaScript and other languages. In 1994 Andreessen formed Mosaic Communications Corp. that later became known as Netscape Communications, the Netscape 0.9 browser. Netscape created its own HTML tags without regard to the traditional standards process. For example, Netscape 1.1 included tags for changing background colours and formatting text with tables on web pages. Throughout 1996 to 1999 the browser wars began, as Microsoft and Netscape fought for ultimate browser dominance. During this time there were many new technologies in the field, notably Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, and Dynamic HTML. On the whole, the browser competition did lead to many positive creations and helped web design evolve at a rapid pace.
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Saturday, August 20, 2022
Crafting great marketing emails
Your email marketing campaigns will change, but the goal remains the same. You want to craft attention-grabbing emails that encourage action. With a few tips, you can market your business like a pro. In this video, we’ll explore how to:
- use subject lines to make a good first impression
- write concise content with strong calls to action
- include helpful links for customers.
TO LEARN MORE HOW WE CAN HELP YOU, CALL US TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Sunday, August 14, 2022
History of Web Design
1988–2001
Although web design has a fairly recent history. It can be linked to other areas such as graphic design, user experience, and multimedia arts, but is more aptly seen from a technological standpoint. It has become a large part of people's everyday lives. It is hard to imagine the Internet without animated graphics, different styles of typography, background, videos and music.
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Thursday, August 11, 2022
Email marketing basics
Sending newsletters and special offers to customers via email can play a key part in your overall marketing plan, building and strengthening relationships with your customers. In this video, we’ll explore:
- developing a contact list
- targeting audiences based on interests
- building relationships with customers.
TO LEARN MORE HOW WE CAN HELP YOU, CALL US TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Monday, August 8, 2022
Friday, August 5, 2022
Web Design
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Monday, August 1, 2022
Make your website easy to use
Visitors to your website should be able to navigate and interact with your site easily - that’s called usability. Bring them back again and again by:
- providing simple and clear navigation
- creating a consistent layout
- writing relevant and effective content.
TO LEARN MORE HOW WE CAN HELP YOU, CALL US TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Internet Users
In 2009 there were reportedly 1.73 billion users worldwide with Asia taking leading with 738,257,230 users. Other internet users by region and continent include;
- Europe - 418,029,796 users.
- North America - 252,908,000 users.
- Caribbean and Latin America - 179,031,479 users.
- Africa - 67,371,700 users.
- Middle East - 57,425,046 users.
- Australia and Oceania - 20,970,490 users.
Following modernization, better access to computers, growth in smartphones technology and use, social media popularity, and cheaper access to the internet, the number of internet users worldwide increased tremendously to 3.97 in 2019. This represents over 51 percent of the global population, with Asia remaining the continent with the most internet users as it accounts for 50 percent of the total number of internet users worldwide. China has the most internet users in the Asian continent, accounting for 25 percent of users in Asia. Also, China has more internet users than any other country in the world with over 934 million monthly users as at 2020. This number is more than double the number of internet users in the US which ranked third with 284 million monthly online users. India ranked second with about 687 million internet users accessing the internet either through mobile devices or computers. One of the most popular activities online is social networking. In 2020, Facebook, a social networking site founded by Mark Zuckerberg recorded over 2.7 billion monthly active users. This number accounts for over half of global internet users, making Facebook the most popular online social network.
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TO LEARN MORE, CALL TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Sunday, July 24, 2022
How to choose keywords
Choosing keywords is the cornerstone of successful search engine optimisation. In this video, we’ll discuss:
- why you need to do keyword research
- the difference between short tail and long tail keywords
- what to consider when selecting keywords
TO LEARN MORE HOW WE CAN HELP YOU, CALL US TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Monday, July 18, 2022
Types of Websites
Websites can be divided into two broad categories—static and interactive. Interactive sites are part of the Web 2.0 community of sites and allow for interactivity between the site owner and site visitors or users. Static sites serve or capture information but do not allow engagement with the audience or users directly. Some websites are informational or produced by enthusiasts or for personal use or entertainment. Many websites do aim to make money, using one or more business models, including:
- Posting interesting content and selling contextual advertising either through direct sales or through an advertising network.
- E-commerce: products or services are purchased directly through the website
- Advertising products or services available at a brick and mortar business
- Freemium: basic content is available for free but premium content requires a payment (e.g., WordPress website, it is an open-source platform to build a blog or website.)
There are many varieties of websites, each specializing in a particular type of content or use, and they may be arbitrarily classified in any number of ways.
Friday, July 15, 2022
Websites and your business goals
When creating your website, consider how to combine your business goals with what your visitors want. In this lesson, we’ll talk about:
- using your site to further your business goals
- thinking like a customer
- telling your story online
TO LEARN MORE HOW WE CAN HELP YOU, CALL US TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Multimedia and Interactive Content
Early websites had only text, and soon after, images. Web browser plug ins were then used to add audio, video, and interactivity (such as for a rich web application that mirrors the complexity of a desktop application like a word processor). Examples of such plug-ins are Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Shockwave Player, and Java SE. HTML 5 includes provisions for audio and video without plugins. JavaScript is also built into most modern web browsers, and allows for website creators to send code to the web browser that instructs it how to interactively modify page content and communicate with the web server if needed. The browser's internal representation of the content is known as the Document Object Model (DOM).
WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a modern JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D graphics without the use of plug-ins. It allows interactive content such as 3D animations, visualizations and video explainers to presented users in the most intuitive way.
A 2010-era trend in websites called "responsive design" has given the best viewing experience as it provides a device based layout for users. These websites change their layout according to the device or mobile platform, thus giving a rich user experience.
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Choosing your online presence
There’s more than one place for people to find you online. In this lesson we’ll explore just how important being online is these days, as well as some common ways to do it including:
- websites
- local business listings and review sites
- social media
- mobile apps
TO LEARN MORE HOW WE CAN HELP YOU, CALL US TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Thursday, June 30, 2022
What is a Dynamic Website?
A dynamic website is one that changes or customizes itself frequently and automatically. Server-side dynamic pages are generated "on the fly" by computer code that produces the HTML (CSS are responsible for appearance and thus, are static files). There are a wide range of software systems, such as CGI, Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages and ColdFusion (CFML) that are available to generate dynamic web systems and dynamic sites. Various web application frameworks and web template systems are available for general-use programming languages like Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby to make it faster and easier to create complex dynamic websites.
A site can display the current state of a dialogue between users, monitor a changing situation, or provide information in some way personalized to the requirements of the individual user. For example, when the front page of a news site is requested, the code running on the webserver might combine stored HTML fragments with news stories retrieved from a database or another website via RSS to produce a page that includes the latest information. Dynamic sites can be interactive by using HTML forms, storing and reading back browser cookies, or by creating a series of pages that reflect the previous history of clicks. Another example of dynamic content is when a retail website with a database of media products allows a user to input a search request, e.g. for the keyword Beatles. In response, the content of the web page will spontaneously change the way it looked before, and will then display a list of Beatles products like CDs, DVDs, and books. Dynamic HTML uses JavaScript code to instruct the web browser how to interactively modify the page contents. One way to simulate a certain type of dynamic website while avoiding the performance loss of initiating the dynamic engine on a per-user or per-connection basis is to periodically automatically regenerate a large series of static pages.
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