Convert XML to JSON in PHP

With the growing popularity of Web 2.0, a new data interchange format called JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is emerging as a useful way to represent data in the business logic running on browsers. Learn how PHP-based server programs can convert XML-formatted enterprise application data into JSON format before sending it to browser applications.

Nathan, Senthil, Edward J Pring and John Morar. IBM (2007). Design>Web Design>Information Design>Ajax

Converting Existing Content to CSS

Thinking about converting an existing Web page or an entire Web site from FONT tags to using CSS (cascading style sheets)? This first tutorial of a new series will guide you through the very basics to help get you started.

Kaiser, Shirley E. Website Tips. Design>Web Design>CSS

Converting FrameMaker to HTML  

Many FrameMaker users need to publish their documents on the World Wide Web. The best approach is to use a converter, which preserves the format and organization of the original FrameMaker document. Good converters can handle long, complex documents that contain elements such as table of contents, index, line drawings, bitmap graphics, tables, footnotes, and equations. We discuss the benefits of having a single source document for paper and Web, the techniques for creating documents that can be converted easily, and the powerful conversion tools available today.

Jackson, Ken and Sonya E. Keene. STC Proceedings (1999). Articles>Web Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker

Converting Print Read to Web Scan Text

Web sites are full of print media text. Shame on them. Users are in a hurry. They hate dense blocks of lengthy blabbering. They ignore most text on their hunt for Relevant Content. Find out how to convert Print Read text into easily consumed information for the web.

Streight, Steven. Blogger.com (2004). Articles>Web Design>Scanning>Writing

Converting Science News for the Web

With the Internet emerging as a primary newsgathering source, many traditional media outlets have converted their products for online viewing. This paper explores how two science news magazines, New Scientist and Science News, have approached this challenge. Elements of hyptertext theory are also included.

Carsten, Laura D. EServer (2001). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Scientific Communication

Converting Visitors to Buyers

Converting visitors to buyers can be easily achieved by following some basic rules of conversion.

Townes, Frederick. Webcredible (2007). Design>Web Design>Usability>E Commerce

Cookies: Just a Little Data Snack

To read the New York Times Web site, you must open a free user account and log in each time you visit. That means yet another user name and password to remember. Fortunately, if you always use the same computer, you can set up your account so that you're logged in automatically whenever you connect to the site. The site does that by using cookies -- another of those silly-sounding bits of programmers' vocabulary that have crept into mainstream coverage of the Internet. But over the past year or so, this practice has become controversial because some people view it as an invasion of privacy. Others have bought into rumors or read inaccurate press reports suggesting that cookies threaten the security of their hard drives.

Ivey, Keith C. Editorial Eye, The (1998). Articles>Web Design>Privacy

Corporate Intranets: Your Job is Never Over  

A corporate intranet is an effective tool for bi-directional information sharing. At last year’s STC conference we discussed how to build a successful intranet. Once you’ve built your intranet, your job is by no means over. Now you must maintain it and ensure that it becomes a part of your company’s corporate culture. To ensure this you must give attention to 1) the information, 2)-site design, 3) marketing and 4) support. We’ll discuss and demonstrate things you can do in these 4 areas to ensure that users continue to have successful experiences with your corporate Intranet.

Gordon, Michele and Brett Fielo. STC Proceedings (1999). Design>Web Design>Intranets

Corporate Pages 2002-2004 (Part 1)

In 2002 I saved nine sample web pages from corporate web sites, for teaching purposes. On 1 June 2004 I took another look at those pages or their current equivalent. No way is this a systematic study or even a random sample. But the results are interesting and do reflect trends in corporate web sites.

McAlpine, Rachel. Quality Web Content (2005). Design>Web Design>History

Corporate Pages 2002-2004 (Part 2)

When training web authors, I prefer to use good examples of their kind, so these must have been either typical or among the best I could find at the time. However, they certainly did not contain content to skite about.

McAlpine, Rachel. Quality Web Content (2005). Design>Web Design>Style Guides

The Corporate Web

This document discusses the significant opportunities available for business to use websites to interact directly with their various audiences. Web services technology has enabled the Corporate Web to evolve from static 'brochureware' into a 'behavior-shaping' communications and relationship-building tool.

Colebeck, Andrew. XGuru (2002). Articles>Web Design>Intranets

The Corporate Web Site as an Image Restoration Tool: The Case of Coca-Cola  

In this study, the communication tactics Coca-Cola uses on its Web site to mediate the negative publicity generated by the 1999 Ingram, et al. vs. The Coca-Cola Company lawsuit are examined. Drawing upon Benoit’s theory of image restoration and the metanarration construct of Venette, Sellnow, and Lang (2003), this study analyzes how Coca-Cola uses its Web site to create a secondary narrative that revises the derogatory primary narrative created by the independent media during the lawsuit. The case of Coca-Cola indicates that corporate Web sites can be an especially effective communication tool in the image-restoration phase of a crisis communication campaign.

Waller, Randall L. and Nicola Graves. Association for Business Communication (2004). Articles>Web Design>Public Relations

CoRR: A Computing Research Repository    

This paper describes the decisions by which the Association for Computing Machinery integrated good features from the Los Alamos e-print (physics) archive and from Cornell University's Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library to form their own open, permanent, online “computing research repository” (CoRR). Submitted papers are not refereed and anyone can browse and extract CoRR material for free, so CoRR's eventual success could revolutionize computer science publishing. But several serious challenges remain: some journals forbid online preprints, the CoRR user interface is cumbersome, submissions are only self-indexed, (no professional library staff manages the archive) and long-term funding is uncertain.

Halpern, Joseph Y. Journal of Computer Documentation (2000). Articles>Content Management>Web Design

Correlating Web-User Data

The statistical term 'correlation' has found its way into popular business language. Often, though, no measurement of correlation has actually taken place. That's too bad. Because there's probably a correlation between measuring correlation and increasing revenue.

Allen, Cliff. Allen.com (2001). Design>Web Design>E Commerce>Log Analysis

Correlating Web-User Data

Everything served to a visitor -- from the first page through marketing, sales, and product fulfillment -- generates data about the customer. Web marketers can tap into this 'free' source of profile data for just the cost of converting existing data into a format that can be used by a data-analysis program.

Allen, Cliff. ClickZ (2001). Articles>Usability>Web Design>Log Analysis

Cost-Effective Website Acceleration

This three-part series outlines a common sense, cost-effective approach to Website acceleration according to the two simple laws of Web performance.

Powell, Thomas A. and Joe Lima. SitePoint (2004). Design>Web Design>Usability>Bandwidth

Could Helen Keller Read Your Page?

The 'line-at-a-time' approach of screen-reader software complicates navigation on text lines that contain multiple hyperlinks (such as navigation bars). Thus, in an ideal world, accommodating visually impaired readers would move an author to place each link on its own separate line. But individual lines for each link can make for long scrolling pages, which, in turn, compromises navigation speed for sighted readers.

Sullivan, Terry and Krystyn Manning. All Things Web (1997). Design>Web Design>Accessibility

Create a Client-Side Image Map

Want to add another dimension to your site's images? Consider using image maps. With an image map you can break up a single image into multiple clickable regions, each with it's own hot spot.

Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Web Design>Interactive

Create a Fun Section Divider

How to create interesting graphical dividers in Adobe GoLive to use in web designs.

Shadovitz, Deborah. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive

Create a Slideshow with the Dreamweaver Timeline

The Dreamweaver Timeline uses layers and JavaScript to create animation and interactivity. To create a series of rotating images, prepare each image at the same size in a graphics program first (i.e., Photoshop, Fireworks, ImageReady, etc.). Then insert a layer on the page. This layer will serve as a placeholder for the rotating images.

Berg, Debbie. WebDeb (2001). Design>Web Design>Presentations>Dreamweaver

Create credibility for online success

Read about what it takes to create credibility for your online business.

Dixon, Nicholas. Webcredible (2004). Design>Web Design>Usability

Create Queries and Dynamically Update Collections

Use GoLive’s new query functionality to simplify complex file management chores by creating queries and attaching them to collections.

Adobe (2003). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive

Create Web Sites That Others Can Easily Update

You can use the Co-Author feature of Adobe® GoLive® CS to create sections of a Web site that others can update quickly and easily. You specify the layout and format of the content while other people (the co-authors) provide the actual content, update it, and even publish the revised Web pages.

Adobe (2003). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive