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Archive for April, 2011
CSS Template Layout
0762 days
by Terry
in Site Templates
The design of a website is called a layout. The layout includes positioning and margins, borders, padding, and content. A CSS template website design can easily include all of these things. In CSS, the layout is often called the box model. It is referred to as a box model because elements of the website are placed in boxes.
An easy way to understand why CSS layout is called a box model is to picture a blank computer screen. In the center of the computer screen is a small box – box number 1. Around box number 1 is a second, larger box – box number 2, surrounded by box number 3, which is surrounded by box number 4.
The content, text, pictures, etc. go inside box number 1. Box number 2 contains the padding, the amount of empty space around the content. Box number 3 is the border, which can be any size or color. Box number 4 contains the margin, which is the amount of empty space around the entire website, similar to the margins on a piece of paper.
Using Windows Hosting for Dynamic Websites
0775 days
by Terry
in Windows Hosting
A lot of time and energy has to be invested by businesses today to create and maintain dynamic, as well as visually effective, websites. Windows hosting is becoming a more viable solution because it has been proven to be a more efficient way to deal with website content. Dynamic web pages can be built using Microsoft based Active Server Pages technologies that are only compatible with the Windows platform. ASP is extremely powerful and it has the flexibility to provide visitors with a slew of interactive functionality and pages options that is not found generally in the Linux solution.
The advantages of using ASP technologies to build your website are abundant. The most obvious advantage is that ASP offers quite a few dynamic elements that will end up making your website look extremely appealing to visitors. In fact, businesses are more and more investing in the Windows platform for their hosting needs because of its ability to market their products easily while engaging the customer. In addition, a content rich website is easier to maintain.