1) W3C HTML Validation: http://validator.w3.org/. W3C HTML Validation service will check your HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML standards. 2) HTML Tidy: http://infohound.net/tidy/ . HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML and validates your HTML documents off-line on your own PC. 3) Broken links: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/valet/. Link Valet is a WWW Link checker. It... Read Full Story

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) id the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engimes. SEO involves designing a website so that search engines like google easily find the pages and index them. the goal is to have your page in at least the top 10 results of a search. Different search engines use different criteria and different formulas for ranking sites. Every search engine uses its own unique formula, called... Read Full Story

Extreme Programming (XP) Extreme Programming (XP) is one of the several agile software engineering methodologies. The main aim of XP is to reduce the cost of change during development ; unlike in the traditional approach where the requirements for the system are determined at the beginning of the development cycle, which becomes very costly and time consuming to implement new requirements later. Goals of XP An attempt to reconcile humanity and productivity A mechanism for social change A... Read Full Story

Agile Development Agile development are methodologies that have been proven to be more effective in dealing with business realities such as changing requirements during development. It also promotes industry best practices that emphasises on customer involvement, delivering product in small working pieces that sum to the total working system. All of this in a timely and cost effective manner. Agile methodology minimises risk by developing software in short 'timeboxes' called iterations... Read Full Story

Web Site Management While high attention and large volumes have been written on website design and development, little importance have been given to the proper management and maintenance of these sites. Reports have shown that beautifully coded websites have crumbled, gone out of date or lost their aim and purpose because of the lack of proper management and maintenance. In response to this , Shane Diffily has come up with a detail and simple to understand model on how to manage and... Read Full Story

SHAZAM Shazam is an amazing leading music recognition technology.Through a cell phone, It recognises and checks the identity of music in a noisy environment. How Shazam Works: Step1: When you hear a track you like and don't recognise, 'shazam' it by dialing 2580 on your mobile phone. Step 2: When Shazam answers, direct the phone to the sound source. Step 3: After 20 seconds, Shazam will hang up and check the music sample against its database of 4 million (ever growing) tracks. Step 4... Read Full Story

GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY Google is one of the biggest names in the IT industry. It is most reputed for operating the leading internet search engine. It is also one of the fore runners in the development of contemporary web 2.0 applications like their Google Maps, Google Adsence and Google Blog. Google is also known for being the company who bought youtube, one of the most visited site on the internet.- History of Google from Wikipedia - Google Founders:Larry Page : Video Larry Page Keynote... Read Full Story

"Social Network Analysis is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, web sites, and other information/knowledge processing entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes. SNA provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships. Management consultants use this methodology with their business clients and call it Organizational Network... Read Full Story

Social Networks Social network in this perspective is about social networking websites. These sites provide a virtual community of like minded people to communicate on a particular subject of interest or simply about anything and everything. It provides facilities/applications that ease the sharing of pictures, voice, instant messages, video conferencing etc. There has been a rapid increase in the number of social network sites since the first one ( friendster) was created in 2002. Some... Read Full Story

Web 2.0 web 2.0 is a word that was coined by O'Reilly Media and CMP media to describe the second stage in the evolution hierarchy of the world wide Web. Web 2.0 include technologies such as Weblogs( like this site you are actually reading ), networking sites ( Facebook, Hi5, Delicious etc), wikis ( wikipedia), podcast, RSS Feeds and many other online web services ( ebay, Gmail etc). During the course of this module, three aspects of Web 2.0 was researched by three students including myself... Read Full Story