Douglas van Duyne, senior director of customer experience products and design at Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) and a well-known expert in the field of online customer experience, will lead an advanced tutorial on best practices for Web site design with Professor James Landay of the University of Washington at the upcoming Computer Human Interaction 2004 (CHI2004) Conference in Vienna Austria on April 25.
AppleScript is commonly used to build Mac OS desktop applications. Unlike other scripting languages, its syntax and structure closely resemble spoken English. It's very popular and easy to use; plus, it's a great way to design small programs that automate workflow and increase productivity.
The Columbia Athletic Department has reported its plans to revamp its official web site. The expected changes promise
to alter considerably web site's stylistic and technical face. The alteration project is anticipated to be completed
by early to mid-summer.
A new network-based encoding solution has been announced by Canopus Corporation, a leader
in digital video production and encoding solutions. The new release dubbed ProCoder Station is built on the company's powerful
ProCoder video encoding software. It allows creative work on the production system to continue by centralizing and automating
the encoding process.
New versions of two of Stone Design's applications have come up on web design scene. The updated portions of Stone Studio Web design
and layout suite include Create and PStill. Now they offer new PDF capabilities and features for the sake of making possible more
efficient use of the Panther Mac OSX platform.
Today, web design is encountered with significant challenges. In order to create up-to-date and worthwhile products,
web design developers should closely comply with the main requirements of website self-service-clarity and simplicity.
Threrefore, special emphasis should be placed upon message performance so that convenience, speed and cost-effectiveness be
ensured for website visitors.
Search engine optimization for today's search engine robots requires that sites be well-designed and easy-to-navigate. To a great degree, organic search engine optimization is simply an extension of best practices in web page design. SEO's relationship with web design is a natural one. By making sites simple and easily accessible, you are providing the easiest path for the search engine robots to index your site, at the same time that you are creating the optimum experience for your human visitors.
Two prominent companies have entered into agreement in order to provide building,manufacturing and
infrastructure design professionals with the opportunity to continually improve effectiveness and
streamline the process of printing engeneering documents.
That opportunity will be ensured by the leadership of HP in large-format printers and the expertise of
Autodesk,Inc. in design and engineering software.
VitalStream, Inc. , a global provider of integrated content delivery and streaming media services, will demonstrate Macromedia® Flash(TM) Video Streaming Service powered by VitalStream at The NAB Show in Las Vegas, NV, April 17-22, 2004 in Booth #SL1248.
