Matthew Carter is a type designer with more than forty years’ experience of involvement in the typographic arts ranging from hand-cut punches to digitized computer fonts. He began in the Linotype companies where he designed and developed type faces for many years, then became a co-founder of Bitstream Inc., the digital typefoundry in 1981. Today, he is a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he and Cone (also from Bitstream) continue to design and produce original typefaces.

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I think that planning should always be our first step towards reaching our goals, no matter what. By planning first, we ensure tha nothing will be left out and that we cover all the needs, not only from our clients but for the future website users. I agree with the articule in that planning is the first and most important part of any project, without planing, your goals will not get accomplished.

In the other hand, I don’t think that we will be always able to accomplished a both, user / business perfect website interaction as described in the article. Sometimes, business websites have information that will not always be user friendly but it’s needed and may be for other kind of users, like corporate and not just regular customers, etc. That’s why a website design should be carefully planned trying to be as clean as possible and not to confuse people. I believe our goals should always be to accomplish what clients want but to traslate that towards the users without changing the business perspective, something not always simple to accomplish.

A website is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are hosted on one web server, usually accessible via the Internet. There’s no simpler definition than that.

Article: Creating a Site Design Plan

It’s hard to see how the cities are deteriorating due to the
economic crisis, how friends and their families are going thru
rough times.

I know lot of people from other countries is happy with the problems we are facing
here in the States but someone should remind them that
WE move the world economy, if we suffer, sooner or later they
will as well.

We made lot of mistakes that ended up in what we are right
now, not need to go back and remind everyone what we did
wrong, I know we will get out of this, we need to go back
to our roots, less money wasting, more quality time, we are
too worry about how to make money and how to spend it, lets
worry more about other things, money is important, of course,
but is not everything. what do you think?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. CSS has a simple syntax, and uses a number of English keywords to specify the names of various style properties. This means that a css file sets the rules for the style your website will have and to set different fonts and colors, etc for your entire website. One you have these sheet done, if you want to make a style change you don’t need to go page by page making those changes, you can just change it inside the css sheet and it will automatically change everywhere.

Web Standards could be defined as an “ISO” that rules in websites making to have websites around the World Wide Web. When a web site or web page is described as complying with web standards, it usually means that the site or page has valid or nearly valid HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The HTML should also meet accessibility and semantic guidelines. Web Standards, make it easier to identify potential errors, lead to faster web development and building a better ground for maintenance. Now, these “standards” are NOT rules, they are recommendations by the W3c, it’s up to the developer to follow them or not.

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CSS
W3 CSS
Page Source, about CSS
Cascading Stly Sheets

Web Standards
What are web standards
About Web Standards
The Web Standards Project

I am sure that everyone have done something in HTML, XML or XHTML or at least hear about it. But, what’s the difference between them? Well, XHTML combines the flexibility of HTML with the extensibility of XML. The most important difference, If you ever worked with HTML, you will now that tags will never look the same in different browsers, the only solutions that an HTML writer has are: not use those tags, use those tags and state that the page is meant for one browser or another, or write multiple pages and use scripting techniques to direct readers to the appropriate pages. With XHTML this is not necessary since you can simply define it in an XHTML module and use it in your page as you would any other HTML tag.

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Differences Between HTML and XHTML
XHTML Valid
HTML Versus XHTML

A podcast is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. Though the same content may also be made available by direct download or streaming, a podcast is distinguished from other digital-media formats by its ability to be syndicated, subscribed to, and downloaded automatically when new content is added. I personally use all these media with my ipod and having updated information right at the moment is something that can’t thank enough. Just take in consideration that any update is something new you will have to learn how to use or adjust yourself to this new update. We are learning unconsciously!

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Podcasting Tools
Learning in Hand
How Podcasting works

I think that the best definition I found for Information Trapping is the one that Tara Calishain (creator of ResearchBuss) gave: “I define information trapping as using alert services, RSS feeds, and similar services to bring updated content to you as it’s generated. Like the “push” technology we were all hearing about ten years ago, except that this time it works!”

Information trapping send us back to the beginning, what we used to get before and what we get now. It’s clear that we have improved the way we search the web and the information we get has much more quality than before. Junk aside, I believe that even if we have more information available than 10 years ago, it’s much easier for us to organize all this information according to our needs. Before, we didn’t have that option, now we do. RSS feeds are a perfect example of this, you can subscribe to any feed that you may be interested in and received it right into your inbox, even if we don’t read all the information coming from that feed, it’s much better that waste hours looking for what we want in the web. These tools help you to find the information you want, instead of you going to get that information, it comes to you.

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Information Trapping – An Interview with Tara Calishain
Information Trapping
What is Information Trapping