10 JavaScript Effects to Boost Your Website’s Fanciness Factor

There comes a point in time where we want to improve our website’s interface or provide a captivating experience that our users will remember.

Here’s a collection of 10 powerful – yet easy-to-implement — JavaScript effects to supplement your web page’s interface. These were picked using a “bang for your buck” methodology; meaning that these effects were chosen specifically because they provide high-impact effects with very little effort in installing and using them.Here’s a collection of 10 powerful – yet easy-to-implement — JavaScript effects to supplement your web page’s interface. These were picked using a “bang for your buck” methodology; meaning that these effects were chosen specifically because they provide high-impact effects with very little effort in installing and using them.

1) GreyBox
2) instant.js
3) mooTable
4) FancyForm
5) image menu
6) AmberJack: Site Tour Creator
7) ImageFlow
8) ShadowBox.js Media viewer
9) TJPzoom 3 - image magnifier
10) mootools Tips

Sources collected from http://sixrevisions.com/rapid-development/10_ajax_effects_website_fanciness/

Learn On-Line Ruby on Rails Course at your own pace on your own time, free

Want to learn, develop web applications using Ruby on Rails, An open-source toolkit that enables you to build sophisticated web applications quickly. Ruby on Rails is a framework that provides a broad set of capabilities upon which you can build your web application

A free Learning Rails Online course is now available for web developers and web designers, consisting of podcasts and screencasts Learn the basics of Ruby on Rails web development at your own pace on your own time, free.

New Feature From Adobe Photoshop Express

Flickr.com, photos.ibibo.com, bubbleshare.com, pixagogo.com these are some of the popular online photo sharing sites you may familiar with and to edit these photos you must have using some of the desktop photo editing software like photoshop, picasa…

Now Adobe has joined these two types of functionality. After sign up to https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html members can upload photos, can edit, crop, rotate, tweak, twirl with photo shop express controls. Members can display their images in 3D or in grid by making their own gallery .

Normal visitors Approach at elements on a web page

The responsibility is not over once you designed and developed a web page. Running an online business means try to know important aspects of a web page by which you can gain more more profit.

Guide the visitors to the point where you want them

An English readers eye goes from left to right and top to bottom. Which means initially their focus will be on top and left part of your web page.

Content Placement- Usually visitor are always in a hurry mood, they scan through the pages for a short moment so it is always recommended that place important and valuable things on top left part so that it will enhance them to continue.

Body Formatting – Include pictures, bold text, headings, subheading and videos to make a region for visitors to look at your web page.

Make the text to look comfortable, including spacing of lines, font size, dazzling colors and small paragraphs.

Hot Spots- One of the other aspects is to redirect the focus to a call to action button. Search and implement an appealable string or eye-catching object where a user is more likely to click than other.

Follow the Standards- Don,t try to implement some thing unusual for example if the navigation bar will be placed at the right hand side most of the user will confused and may reject your page so try to be professional, make your page according to the standard, simple and user friendly

Google: Web sites slow to fix serious Flash flaws

At CanSecWest, Google security engineer reveals that hundreds of thousands of Web pages serve up buggy Shockwave Flash files, which could be exploited by hackers

Two months after Adobe Systems patched a serious flaw in its Flash development software, there are still hundreds of thousands of Web pages serving up buggy Shockwave Flash (.swf) files that could be exploited by hackers, according to a Google researcher.

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Website Development Hierarchy

Basically Web development is divided into client side coding and server side coding. A client side coding covers aspects like layouts and design such as XHTML is executed and stored on a local client in a web browser, then server side coding such as PHP, which covers the website's functionality, security and back end systems. It is not accessible to a local web browser and is executed on a web server and after execution it sent appropriate XHTML to the client.

A website development hierarchy might consist of: -

Client Side Coding

• JavaScript
  
• CSS
• Flash
• XHTML
• Microsoft Silver Light

Server Side Coding

• ASP.NET and MSSQL
• ASP and MSSQL
• PHP and MySQL
• Ruby, e.g. Ruby on Rails
• ColdFusion
• CGI and/or Perl
• Python
• Lotus Domino
• Smalltalk

Web development considers several things into account, like data validation on forms & decontamination of the data, data storing in proper way, unauthorized access of scripts to the hacker for gaining secure information for example login information, email addresses, user ID passwords and private content.

Everything needs to be tested properly before making live to the web for public, though developer are responsible to maintain themselves, it is also the role of server environment on which the scripting languages are running.

Choosing a Website Development Company

First of all you need to generate a list of website development companies by searching on the web or from references given by your friends who have already experience on that field.

Now you have a list of sites on you hand, it’s time to filter and choose the best ones out of them. Here are some point’s needs to take care while filtering the list.

1. How efficient is the company for discussing ideas face-to-face?
2. If you require other services like Internet Marketing, SEO, Copywriting, E-Commerce, Photography, video & audio production, is their any possibility to get them under the same roof?
3. Have they provided solutions for other companies like your industry?
4. What is the depth of their portfolio for consistent quality in the projects they have produced?
5. What additional product /services the company can provide to you as the relation progress with them.
6. Are they clear about their time frame and Budgets?

Once you will get satisfactory answer of the above questions the more defined will be your website ideas and the smoother your business will run.