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can you put on a page?
Those are the basics. "That's all?" you ask. Well actually, no. With the improvement of browser technology, you can add a wide range of advanced features to your pages including forms, graphical animations, sound, video, and much more. However, you may be surprised to find out how the three basic elements can be combined to create so many different looking Web Sites. Web Searchers: I want my pages to be found . . . NOW!
Web Databases use different criteria to catalog the pages they find. A user searching for information you have to offer uses keywords that you have in your pages, yours may be one of thousands of pages presented to the user as a result of his search. On the other hand, if you are the only vendor of Left Handed Widgets, and a user searches for "Left Handed Widgets", there's a good chance yours will be one of the only pages returned by his or her search. If it's database recognition you desire, there are certain design considerations you should follow. Read our Search Engine Introduction, then Contact Sewell directly for more information. My access provider gives me FREE pages. Why can't I do it myself? OK, you can. But consider this: First, many people change access providers over the course of their Internet experience. When you move your Web Pages, the Web Databases lose track of your pages. People searching for your product or service are greeted with the message "document not found" instead of your pages. Also, when you change access providers your E-Mail address changes too. The bottom line is that when you change access providers, any work you have done to promote your Internet presence is lost. When you use your own domain, separate from your access provider, you can maintain continuity with Web Databases and your own published literature, even if you change your Internet Access Provider. Sewell will give you an E-Mail address like "yourname@yourcompany.com" that will be forwarded to your E-Mail account. If you change access providers, Sewell will redirect the mail to your new provider, and your customers will still be able to find you at your original Web and E-Mail addresses. Second, Sewell can incorporate server-side programs, like automated E-Mail, survey forms, E-Mail autoresponders, e-commerce, and other features that are only available through special server functions. "FREE" Web pages don't come with these features, and in general aren't even available.
The language of the Web is Hyper-Text Markup Language or HTML. It is HTML that specifies the layout of ALL Web Pages. Items such as bold face, italic, headings, image positioning, and lots of other stuff can be specified. However, it's the job of the browser software to present this information to the user. Browsers translate the information from your page and format it on the user's screen. Unfortunately, no two browsers present information the same way. (That is, some may be able to "Center" text, display images along side text, display background images and colors; others cannot). Also, the user generally has some level of control over how the pages look. (For instance, users can generally select the base font and size of all displayed text). Additionally, screen width influences how the page is presented. The bottom line is that EXACT formatting is not possible. Sewell attempts to format Web pages to your specifications for use with Internet Explorer and Firefox, the two most popular and full featured browsers at the time of this writing. Sewell Computer |
