A Web cache sits between one or more Web servers (also known as origin servers) and a client or many clients, and watches requests come by, saving copies of the responses — like HTML pages, images and files (collectively known as representations) — for itself. Then, if there is another request for the same URL, it can use the response that it has, instead of asking the origin server for it again.
That's right: tables are back, big time! Web standards may have become the norm for coding pages for display in web browsers, but this isn't the Web, baby. Mail clients are light years behind the eight-ball in terms of CSS support, which means that we must resort to using tables for layout if we really want our newsletters to display consistently for every reader (see the reading list at the end of this article for some excellent resources on CSS support in mail clients).
The biggest pain when coding HTML email is that so many different software tools are available for reading email, from desktop software such as Eudora, Outlook, AOL, Thunderbird, and Lotus Notes, to web-based email services such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Google Mail. If you thought it was difficult to ensure the cross-browser compatibility of your web sites, be aware that this is a whole new game -- each of these email software tools can display the same email in vastly different ways. And even when these tools do display an HTML email properly, accounting for variances in, for example, the widths at which readers size their windows when reading emails makes things even trickier.
Whether you choose to code your HTML email by hand (my personal preference) or to use an existing template, there are two fundamental concepts to keep in mind when creating HTML email:
Use HTML tables to control the design layout and some presentation. You may be used to using pure CSS layouts for your web pages, but that approach just won't hold up in an email environment.
Use inline CSS to control other presentation elements within your email, such as background colors and fonts.
The quickest and easiest way to see how HTML tables and inline CSS interact within an HTML email is to download some templates from Campaign Monitor and MailChimp. When you open up one of these templates, you'll notice a few things that we'll discuss in more detail later:
CSS style declarations appear below the body tag, not between the head tags.
No CSS shorthand is used: instead of using the abbreviated style rule font: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, you should instead break this shorthand into its individual properties: font-family, font-size, and line-height.
spans and divs are used sparingly to achieve specific effects, while HTML tables do the bulk of the layout work.
CSS style declarations are very basic, and do not make use of any CSS.
HTML email newsletters have come a long way in the five years since this article was first published. HTML email is still a very successful communications medium for both publishers and readers.
Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS?
Since the dawn of the Web in the early 1990s, Internet advocates have argued that one of the Web’s most powerful applications would be to open up new worlds to people and help them easily experience faraway places. A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 45% of online American adults have taken advantage of this Internet application and taken virtual tours of another location online. That represents 54 million adults who have used the internet to venture somewhere else. On a typical day, more than two million people are using the internet to take a virtual tour. Some of the most popular virtual tour destinations include museums, tourist and vacation locales, colleges and prep schools, real estate, historical exhibits, parks and nature preserves, public places such as the White House and the Taj Mahal, and hotels and motels.
In building your network marketing opportunity you need to be aware that your focal target market only consist of two groups of people. The first is the existing network marketers and the second is those who are actively getting started in this business world.
Every small business comes to the point of creating a website to promote their services or products on the market.
Then the nightmare begins. What should I do ? Who do I call? How do I find people to do my website without ripping me off?
Yet another popular Web development company (Ameravant Web Studio) here in beautiful Santa Barbara, California announced their new product called site-ninja, a (CMS) Ruby on Rails based system designed to be simple to use, user friendly and SEO optimized for better search engine exposure.
The need to update websites faster to keep content fresh has been ever growing. Ever since the first business owner wanted their Web designer to update their website faster, content management systems have played an important role on the Web. Why does this matter to you? How do you know if your company is ready?
