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Cloggage, A

Published: Fri 16 May

Every website has a purpose; a raison d’etre. Every user experience has a start point and and end point. On a website you have a landing page (start point) and a page at which a transaction has been completed or (one of) the websites objectives has been fullfilled (the end point). Somewhere inbetween there are a lot of opportunities for ‘cloggages’ to occur stopping that desired end point from being reached.

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Web Standards

Published: Thu 8 May

Web standards are best practices for HTML based web design. Generally a website that is ‘web standards compliant’ will be coded in accordance with the guidelines set out by the W3C.

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Accessibility

Published: Wed 7 May

Accessibility on the web is similar to accessibility in the real world. An accessible building in the real world will have a number of features that allow disabled people to access the building as easily as able bodied people — for example wheel chair ramps.

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Usability

Published: Tue 6 May

In web design, usability describes the ease at which website users are able to fulfil the purpose(s) of the website. Usability is a fundamental aspect of web design that must be taken into consideration from word go.

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(X)HTML ((eXtensible) HyperText Markup Language)

Published: Thu 1 May

XHTML is a hybrid of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and XML (eXtensible Markup Language). But all you need to know is XHTML is a slightly cleaner more powerful version of regular HTML, so when you hear references to XHTML or HTML it’s basically referring to the same thing: the code used to write web pages.

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