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Three Web Design Prototyping Tools Pros and Cons

December 19, 2010

Several considerations must be made when choosing a website design tool. Platform, hardware, and cost should all be taking into account before finalizing selection of a tool that will be used as your primary design software. For this topic, I have chosen to focus on tools available on the Windows platform. Microsoft Expression Studio 4 [...]

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Scope Creep, what it is and how to crush it

December 19, 2010

In project management, scope can refer to both project scope and product scope. Project scope is the work that needs to be performed to deliver a product, and product scope is the features and functions of a product, or functional requirements. If there are no standard procedures to follow regarding the management of functional requirements, [...]

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Considerations when designing your multimedia elements

December 19, 2010

There are several considerations when choosing what multimedia technologies to use while designing your website. In general, one must consider the end user of the web site and their method of visiting the website in order to determine what type of multimedia technologies should be used within the site. For instance, one would not use [...]

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Why XHTML?

November 22, 2010

The web community has for some time been moving toward the adoption of XHTML for several reasons. One reason has been a need to move away from presentation as priority with new focus on data structure. Since the inception of HTML 1.0 in 1993, there’s been a constant battle by browser developers to render hyper-text [...]

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Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server Settings for Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail, etc.

October 30, 2010

NOTE: This is a reprint of content that was originally on the now defunct emailaddressmanager.com website. I am reprinting it here for record as this information was very useful for me when setting up my accounts on my phone. Hotmail Settings As other web based email services, Hotmail is using the HTTP protocol for connecting [...]

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