Web site design is where the site content is created and assembled into pages. Quality web site design is critical to entice your audience and project a professional image.

Web Site Design Process

• Content Design
• Theme Design
  Development of the site's standard visual elements.
• Copy Development
  Text organization, writing, and editing
• Creative Feature Design
  Stand-alone graphics and multi-media beyond sites standard elements
• Production Processing
  Makes all content web-ready.

Coding is where web pages are physically built. Web pages are coded by using HTML/XML markup tags to format and layout text, graphics, hyperlinks, and other page elements. Client-side scripting is also included to make web pages more functional and dynamic.

Development Guide Tips

• Always follow HTML/XML standards and best practices as established by W3C. Even though some browsers will forgive coding mistakes, such errors may cause problems on others.

Further Reading

Wiki Best Practices

Purpose:

The L10 Wiki will serve as a digital knowledge base for both internal and external use.

Creating new content:

• Create Wiki page.
• Under the personal account menu, go to create content>wiki page.

Title your post following the standard naming conventions:

• Use nouns and noun phrases.
• Ten words or fewer.
• Capitalize first word, then follow standard capitalization rules.
• Avoid abbreviations – if necessary, follow redirect guide at the end of this document.

Scalable Vector Graphics:

A markup language is a set of tags that describe the content of a document. The most common markup languages today is HTML a markup language is not a programming language, hence it is a misnomer to 'code' HTML. XML has introduced extensibility into HTML called XHTML. This new more versatile language can incorporate many types of media, other than plain text; and web browsers are constantly adding more support for W3C languages such as SVG and XSLT. XML has strict rules that can increase the learning curve for a person new to XML-based markup.

Extensible Stylesheet Transformation Language (XSLT) is the most common language for transforming raw XML into other useful formats. An XSLT file is itself a valid XML document, and converges the paradigms of scripting and templating with the structure of XML.

An XML feed is a normal XML document tailored for syndication. Common formats include RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom. The document usually includes subject or article titles, an excerpt, a link to the web page containing the full content, and other useful pieces of meta data.

Client Side:

XML is short for Extensible Markup Language. It is designed not only to store data, but to automatically provide metadata through semantic syntax including tags and attributes. Furthermore this is accomplished while maintaining a human-readable format, unlike more optimized database storage which is binary and must be manually queried using software to browse the information. Here is an example of some XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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Extensible HyperText Markup Language or XHTML is the XML-based markup language most often used to design a website. Its roots lie in HTML. In fact, XHTML 1.0 Transitional and HTML 4.01 Transitional are functionally identical, the only differences being the tolerance of human error when writing the markup.

When valid XHTML is used in conjunction with CSS to render the visual aspects of a website, your information becomes accessible to a wider range of audiences. This allows more users to read your content as well as boosting search engine optimization efforts.

RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication (as of RSS 2.0), is a common type of XML feed. It is mainly used to publish content from a website for aggregation by an end user, or for public display by another website.