Hi there,    I'm  Cornel Nichita

      and I absolutely love what I do. Art and technology have always been two big inspirations in my life. Over time, both of these passions have merged and evolved into what I am today. I believe in working hard, discovering ways to expand and share my skills, and always moving forward.

      I am a friendly guy, a fast learner and an extremely detail-oriented individual -methodical, structured, and organized. I believe in sharing the things I learn and I really hope people who visit this site can take something away with them.

      In my front-end development work I specialize in web standards-based xHTML, CSS and JavaScript development. I employ the latest development principles and standards and I am particularly interested in usability, user-interface design and quality assurance. I also have some experience with server-side development using PHP/ MySQL and ASP.NET.

      Dreamweaver is my tool of choice to hand-code my pages with such features as code completion, code hints, and the built-in validator and link checker being very handy. I have also used Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat Professional and jQuery.js.

Section 1c SEO

A professional web designer is a person who manages to ignore his personal likes and dislikes and creates the layout that satisfies and attracts the audience of the future site. Web design principles are generally accepted, but eventually changing recommendations on how to create comfortable and user friendly website interface. While some of them may work for some project others may do no good. Your project’s niche and goals are the factors that all your work should be based on, so don’t disregard some basic concepts of marketing, psychology, art and search engine optimization. Our team keeps this collection of guidelines up-to-date as technology and viewers’ preferences keep on evolving.

This is the first and foremost step that you need to take into account, it is important that you need to decide the main purpose of the website you are intending to launch. So it is important that you decide the important concept that you want to focus and even the terms of subject. It is important that you remember the fact that you need to list down the main focus and this will determine the impact on the whole project. You need to decide the web store, the information that you are intending to provide to the established clients and you also need to decide on how you are intending to brand the website.

Some under construction sites. Excuse my mess...

The website features will be decided in the first step itself however in this step it is important that the specific website features are decided like the shopping cart for an online store and even the password protection section of the website. It is important that you decide the features of eth website with greater depth.

Describe the major sections of the website: It is important to note that as you are done with the first two steps, you are almost done with half of the web designing, in this step it is important to note that you need to specify the different sections of the website, it will be good if you decide the different sections by drawing further it will be an useful tool. The diagram can easily show you the different hierarchy order of the website and even the relation between the different sections.

Draft the final content:

It is important to note the fact that the final content of the website has to drafted at this stage so that there can be proper web designing done further. Hence it is important that you draft the content at this point so that you don't have to rethink on the website design later. It is the content that actually makes the website become successful and valuable.

Website usability is all about making the desired actions on your site effortless. There’s always a reason why your website’s performance leaves much to be desired. Ask questions and never be afraid of doubting your irreproachability. Usability is a really disputable topic and most of web designers has personal opinion about it. Here we’ve collected a number of articles and tutorials that are sure to provoke some ideas and hopefully will inspire you to run a few usability experiments.

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Mystery Meat Navigation

Website designing is tricky business. Often small things that go unnoticed turn out to be significant in impacting the overall performance of the website and further influencing crucial factors like website traffic, revenue generation and conversion figures. Here are some factors that are often overlooked but are by no means unimportant and should be taken very seriously.

This is the type of navigation where icons or pictorial buttons are used to represented navigational links. Unlike regular navigation links, they are devoid of text that defines its location. Therefore users are left to wonder the location by themselves. This handicaps the browsing experience because users are often unable to locate the designated look. Mystery meat navigation require JavaScript and images in order to function. This also bloats the size of web pages and increases their load time. This further hampers the accessibility quotient of the website. Even if you decide to use images for link, make sure you complement them requisite text links as well in order to make the navigation menu accessible and usable. Smooth and flawless browsing experience ensures rich user-experience.

Page Titles

Page titles are the texts that is displayed on the title bars of the web browser. It is the 'title' of the web page and should define the contents of the same. Many web designers make the mistake of writing the website name first followed by the page contents. Ideally, the title of the content should precede the name of the website in the title bar. This is because Internet users and search engines are able to locate the contents of the website more easily.

Contact Information Websites are your corporate face on the world wide web. And it is very important to establish your credibility. One of the ways you can ensure this is by letting your audiences know that there is a live presence behind the online presence and providing them a point to get in touch with them. Providing adequate contact information not only grants legitimacy to your online business but also helps your visitors to communicate with you.

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Site Map

One of the oft-forgotten but extremely important feature of a website. Many web designers forget to include a site map on their website. A site-map lists all the links of all the pages of a website according to the hierarchy and order. A site-map acts as a links page for search engine pages to crawl and also aid estranged users to locate their exact positions on the website and navigate to where they want to go.Moreover, sitemaps also strengthen the internal linking of a website and provides a defined structure for the same.

Standardized Markup In order to ensure the proper accessibility and usability of a website, it is very important to maintain a standardized mark-up. Be it using tables for layouts or the proper use of line breaks, just about everything counts for proper markup. Use semantic markup that ensures forward compatibility.

The 5 Step Software Development Cycle

The software development life cycle normally comes with some standard processes which can be managed by a well-trained development team. Like software, web site applications is also developed with a certain methodologies. Let us look at the steps involved in most any web site development projects.

Modern websites are a far cry from the static text and graphics showcases of a decade ago, Today almost all popular and successful websites today, be it online shopping portals, lead management systems, surveys, event registration, reservation, and ticketing systems, social networks, entertainment sites, eCommerce websites implement web based applications.Web applications are computer programs. These programs allow website visitors to submit and retrieve data to/from a database over the Internet using a preferred web browser. The data is then presented to the user within the browser as information is generated dynamically by the web application through a web server.Web application development is not necessarily an easy task. A properly developed web application must undergo a series of actions to ensure success.

1. Analysis:

As the web site is going to be a part of a system, It needs a complete analysis as, how the web based application is going to help the present system and how the site is going to help the business. Moreover the analysis should cover all the aspects especially what are the performance expectations of the finished product. Another key aspect of the analysis is identifying and understanding the targeted audience and their respective demographic.

3. Design: The Design step includes the creation and design of all the pages implementing the application features as design elements to be programmed later by the coding team. In most of the cases customer may be interested in viewing two or three design versions. Revisions are displayed via the web project board for the customer to view. In optimum project management processes, customer comments, feedback and approvals are submitted to a project management board for easy review and retrieval by all relevant parties. Throughout the design phase the team should develop test plans and procedures for quality assurance. It is necessary to obtain client approval on design and project plans. Once approved the approved coded designs are provided to the Programming team for development.

4. Development:

In parallel the Database team will develop the database with all the data structures. Unlike traditional design the coder must be familiar with the interface as the code should not change or alter the look and feel of the site or application. It is important the programming team and the designer interact and communicate well in order for the programmer to thoroughly understand the design. The coders should always produce necessary testing plans as well as technical documentation. The end-user documentation can also be prepared by the coding team, which can be used by a technical writer.

5. Testing:Unlike software, web based applications need intensive testing, as the applications will always function as a multi-user system with bandwidth limitations. Some of the testing which should be done are, Integration testing, Stress testing, Scalability testing, load testing, resolution testing and cross-browser compatibility testing. Both automated testing and manual testing should be done without fail. For example its needed to test fast loading graphics and to calculate their loading time, as they are very important for any web site.There are ideal testing tools which assists quality assurance testers. After the testing is completed a live Beta testing is necessary for web sites and web based applications. After uploading the site a final testing is conducted.Successful businesses have made intelligent use of web application development to enhance their business prospects. However web application development should be handled only by firms who have the experience and technological understanding to undertake challenging application development .Once your company requires an online application look for a web development with a strong portfolio of clients that have an industry reputation. A strong website development company can make any website effective.