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If you create pages that are not part of the osCommerce engine then they will not carry over the unique session ID, thus dropping items from your shopping cart if you continue to browse.

When I need quick facts on Internet usage and how the Web is shaping our world, I turn to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. An initiative of the Pew Research Center, Pew Internet explores the "impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life."

Pew Internet Project reports are primarily based on national telephone surveys but also draw from qualitative research methods and data shared by their research partners.

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The only way for a company to use any Content Management Tool is based on one rule...Garbage In Garbage Out

Active Server Pages technology generates HTML and passes the dynamically created HTML to the browser to be displayed to the user. Microsoft created Active Server Pages to make it easier for developers to create dynamic Web sites in a Windows environment.

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Firefox is an open source web browser maintained by the Mozilla corporation. It is the second most popular web browser today with millions of users. It is developed by a core team with contributions from hundreds of volunteer developers. Firefox is built to allow custom user configuration, and users can author extensions that can be integrated into the browser interface as seamlessly as the normal toolbar.

Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by the Web Standards Project (WASP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. These features are part of existing standards but haven't been consistently supported by major browsers. It is not supposed to resemble a real-world web page and it is not solely designed to test browser support for CSS; it contains complex rules that cascade in the most advanced ways possible.

A Fasttrack is a template based website that LevelTen began to offer as a solution for clients that wanted a professional website on a restricted budget. The recent growth of LevelTen has led to the need for a departure of LevelTen from the fasttrack site options; as a result of this departure LevelTen started a sister company called IFX Interactive. IFX provides services to both new and past LevelTen clients who no longer fit within the scope of work that LevelTen currently handles

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the styling language developed by the W3C for use in conjunction with a markup language such as HTML or XHTML. Its power is in the fact that the information can be stored in various scopes, and the cumulative effect of all styling rules is computed before rendering the final design in the browser. When used with sufficiently semantic markup, it is a very flexible way to completely style a website, separating the presentational details from the content itself.

HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language, and it is the most widely used markup language for storing and broadcasting information on the world wide web. HTML can be used in conjunction with CSS and JavaScript to create a rich visual and interactive experience within a web browser.