Current Practices in Web Design

The Internet is changing rapidly and will soon cease to support non-compliant websites. Marietta based web design company, RossHost.com, has been redesigned to provide easier access and includes many new articles and tips about current practices in website design for hobbyists, businesses, organizations, webmasters, and professional designers.

(PRWEB) December 28, 2005 -- Owner Phillip A. Ross has been designing websites for about ten years and notes that much of what he learned when he began no longer applies. For instance, HTML, the language of the web, has undergone several revisions and is now at revision 4.0. New technologies like DHTML, XHTML, XML, to mention only a very few, are rapidly making many older websites obsolete. Add to this the development of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allows for the separation of content and layout in order to make websites available to emerging new technologies like cell phones and PDAs, and you have a very dynamic situation.

The situation is made worse by Internet Explorer's (IE) lack of conformity to web standards. Ross believes that Microsoft is trying to maintain its web browser market dominance by using proprietary software routines rather than the standards developed by the Web Standards Project. Microsoft's refusal to conform means that web designers have to design one way for browsers that support standards, like Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, etc., and then tweak the design with special snippets of code to force IE to render the code correctly.

Ross has included several new articles and tips about issues regarding design standards and current Internet practices that will increase the efficiency and performance of websites. The articles deal with website architecture (organization), optimization, promotion, advertising and growth, i.e., “Design Problems,” “Design Standards,” “Design Elements,” ”More Effective Website,” “Promotion,” “Availability,” “Exposure,” Incremental Growth” and more.

Phillip A. Ross is the owner of PARoss Services (www.paross.com), which provides web and graphic design through www.rosshost.com, and promotional products through www.business-specialties.com.

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