Website Design & Development-Part 10

Website Construction
A process of converting content into codes using HTML, CSS and many more other languages. It can be called as the heart of a website from where everything originates. There are a series of guidelines that you need to follow to make sure your website conforms to best practice. These guidelines encompass:
• Browser compatibility.
• Screen resolution.
• Web accessibility.
• Other, e.g. coding languages, metadata, character sets, analytics, etc.
The most important are summarised below.
Browser Compatibility
A browser is the software used to display a website on your computer. There are several of these products available (as well as different versions for each product), and each of them can display a site slightly differently. To ensure your site is presented correctly on the broadest possible range of computers, you must tell your designer and coder to make sure it is fully compatible with the following browsers.
Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98, 95
Apple Other, i.e. Linux®, Sun®, Unix®.
Internet Explorer Netscape Firefox Opera Mozilla™ AOL Browser
Apple Safari™ Internet Explorer (discontinued) Netscape Firefox Opera
Firefox Konqueror™ Mozilla Netscape Chimera™
A good way to check what software people use to view your website is by analysing your web traffic analytics.
Screen Resolution
Screen resolution defines the number of pixels that can be displayed on a computer monitor. This number is increasing all the time. However adoption rates vary, which means that you cannot create your website for the largest possible size. If you do, many people will not be able to use your site properly. Instead, you need to create your site so that it can be optimally displayed on the largest number of screens, e.g. 99% of all users. The current accepted standard for doing so is 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high. Again, a good way to check what screen resolution people use for viewing your website is to analyse your website traffic analytics.

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