I am working on some addition series type content posts.  These will be displayed over a period of a week or so.  Some of the content you can look forward to includes:

• How to develop using Access and Sql Server
• How to display a message in front of the web page layer and gray out the background

You can look forward the these two series of posts as well as much more coming soon!

The post is part of a 7 part series.  Click here to visit the first post in this series.

Maintenance and updates are an important part of the life of a website. Once the initial site is launched, it’s time to start working on upgrades on a consistent basis. Maintenance occurs when a piece of the website needs to be fixed.

Some of the maintenance tasks involved in running a website include fixing spelling and grammatical errors in text, patching security holes in applications, and keeping website code up to date.

Upgrades to an application or website are necessary to keep the design up to date and to keep visitors returning to the website. Say a website launched today. It may be quite popular for a while, but without upgrades and enhancements, it will fade into history. Part of keeping the website up to date is including regular content updates. You need to give your visitors a reason to return to your website.

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This past weekend, I was developing some pages for a website of mine, and in search for a missing piece of code, I stumbled across a really neat website. I ended up at O’Reilly. The book publisher has an online library of books for designers, developers, or anyone who is involved in the Information Technology Business.

I noticed a link in the top menu on their page. This link lead to Safari Books Online. I looked around for a little while, then decided it would be worth my while to join the website. Since then, I realized the full potential of the information available. I suddenly had a virtual library of over 5500 technology books in front of me. I can use this site for learning new skills, looking up a solution to a problem, or just general technology knowledge.

I believe this site would benefit anyone who wants to learn more about Information Technology. This includes programming, design, security, databases, desktop development, Information Technology Management, and many other categories.

Visit Safari Books Online

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HTML meta tags are used to describe the document. There are many attributes which can be used in meta tags. The most popular are as follows:

Description

The description meta type is used to describe the page and the information it contains. On many search engine results pages, the meta description is used as the description for the page.

<meta name=”description” content=”Page description goes here” />

Keywords

The keywords meta type is used to provide keyword terms to describe the content of the page. The keyword terms were originally meant to be used to help search engines in indexing pages.

<meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword list goes here” />

URL Refresh

The meta tag can also be used to redirect the page. This is done as follows:

<meta http-eqiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=somepage.htm” />

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HTML Frames are used to display multiple pages within one window on a website. Using frames requires a frameset to control the placement of frames and load the initial pages.

<frameset cols=”20%,*”>
<frame src=”menu.htm” />
<frame src=”main.htm” />
</frameset>

With this frameset example, the cols attribute describes how the frames will layout. The left frame is 20% of the width, and the right is 80%. A rows attribute can be used as well to position frames vertically.

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