Web-Development

 

Sunday, 26 February 2012

web development tools

CONTENT MANAGEMENT
A content management system (CMS) is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to do the following:

• Allow for a large number of people to share and contribute to stored data;
• Control access to data based on user role (i.e., define information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.);
• Facilitate storage and retrieval of data;
• Control data validity and compliance;
• Reduce duplicate inputs;
• Simplify report writing;
• Improve communication among users.

This platform allows you to publish content, edit content, modify it and also ensure that you are in the same page when it comes to site maintenance. Benefits with CMS Web Development –

• You will find that a good quality CMS is going to help you by simplifying all activities when it comes to publishing content, revision control, easy search, indexing, easy retrieval of content, among other activities.
• Write reports easily and avoid duplicate content as much as you want to.

While Entering into CMS Web Development these are common names to lookout for-

• Wordpress
• Joomla
• Drupal
• Magento
• Zencart.

In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents, movies, text, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth. CMS's are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Serving as a central repository, the CMS increases the version level of new updates to an already existing file. Version control is one of the primary advantages of a CMS.

Server Side Coding

• ASP (Microsoft proprietary),
• CSP Server-Side ANSI C.
• Coldfusion (Adobe proprietary, formerly Macromedia, formerly Allaire)
• CGI
• JAVA e.g. Java EE or WebObjects.
• Lotus domaino.
• OPerl e.g. Catalyst Dancer (all open source)
• PHP (open source)
• Python e.g. Web Framework (open source)
• Real Studio Web Edition
• Ruby e.g. Ruby & Rails (open source)
• Smalltalk e.g. Seaside AIDA/side
• SSJS Server-Side JavaScript, e.g. Aptana, Jaxer, Mozilla Rohino
•  Web DNA(WSC proprietary)
• Websphere (IBM proprietary)
• .NET and .NET MVC Frameworks (Microsoft proprietary)

The World Wide Web has become a major delivery platform for web development a variety of complex and sophisticated enterprise applications in several domains. In addition to their inherent multifaceted functionality, these web applications exhibit complex behavior and place some unique demands on their usability, performance, security and ability to grow and evolve. However, a vast majority of these applications continue to be developed in an ad-hoc way, contributing to problems of usability, maintainability, quality and reliability.(1)(2) While web development can benefit from established practices from other related disciplines, it has certain distinguishing characteristics that demand special considerations. In recent years of web development there have been some developments towards addressing these problems and requirements. As an emerging discipline, web engineering actively promotes systematic, disciplined and quantifiable approaches towards successful development of high-quality, ubiquitously usable web-based systems and applications.(3)(4) In particular, web engineering focuses on the methodologies, techniques and tools that are the foundation of web application development and which support their design, development, evolution, and evaluation. Web application development has certain characteristics that make it different from traditional software, information system, or computer application development.
Web engineering is multidisciplinary and encompasses contributions from diverse areas: systems analysis and design, software engineering, hypermedia/hypertext engineering, requirements engineering, human-computer interaction, user interface, information engineering, information indexing and retrieval, testing, modelling and simulation, project management, and graphic design and presentation. Web engineering is neither a clone, nor a subset of software engineering, although both involve programming and software development. While web engineering uses software engineering principles, web development encompasses new approaches, methodologies, tools, techniques, and guidelines to meet the unique requirements for web-based applications.

Client Side Coding

• Ajex Asynchronous JavaScript provides new methods of using JavaScript, and other languages to improve the user experience.
• Flash Adobe Flash Player is an ubiquitous browser plugin ready for RIAS is also deployed to the Flash Player (version 9+).
• Javascript Formally called ECMAScript, JavaScript is a ubiquitous client side platform for creating and delivering rich Web applications that can also run across a wide variety of devices.
• JQUARY  Cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify and speed up the client-side scripting of HTML.
• Microsoft silverlight Microsoft's browser plugin that enables animation, vector graphics and high-definition video playback, programmed usingXMAL and .NET programming languages.
• HTMLand CSS3 Latest HTML proposed standard combined with the latest proposed standard for CSS natively supports much of the client-side functionality provided by other frameworks such as Flash and Silverlight

Looking at these items from an "umbrella approach", client side coding such as XHTML is executed and stored on a local client (in a web browser) whereas server side code is not available to a client and is executed on a web server which generates the appropriate XHTML which is then sent to the client. The nature of client side coding allows you to alter the HTML on a local client and refresh the pages with updated content (locally), web designer must bear in mind the importance and relevance to security with their server side scripts. If a server side script accepts content from a locally modified client side script, the web development of that page is poorly sanitized with relation to security.

Web designing is all about writing code that is valid HTML and CSS which make it easier to correct problems, and edit pages. HTML and CSS are the fundamental technologies for building web pages: (X)HTML for structure, accompanied by CSS for style and layout. By separating the presentation style of documents from the content of documents, CSS simplifies web authoring and site maintenance^. For example, having a separate CSS file allows for making aesthetic changes to the entire website rather than just to a single web page. If CSS rules are included within a single HTML page, changes would have to be made to each and every page that used the element in question. The reasoning is that HTML should only be used for raw content and CSS be used to manipulate the content for aesthetic style........