History Web Solution

Coweb.biz has developed a dynamic web solution tailored for historical groups to coordinate their activities online. Extensions to the standard dynamic package provide seperate facilities to publish content. Officials can publish at blogger using the WYSIWYG interface and members can contribute via email. Site visitors have can leave comments about the site or add a snippet.

Whats a snippet?

A snippet is a mini log of history notes from site visitors that can provide a basis for further research and eventual inclusion into the formal history for the regions. Families that have moved away can become involved with their herritage from anywhere. All limitation of distance have been removed. The history package is available for $299.00 to not-for-profit groups and full support is included to help you customise the design and get started.

Visit created for the Red Cliffs & District Historical Society Inc. to see the package in operation. It has every feature to support an online community group with minimal maintenance and content publishing by email. What could be simpler? Get a total solution from Coweb.biz Country Websites for rural Australians.

Working towards 'One Web'

W3C Working Draft 20 December 2005 specifies best practices for Web content to be accessed from mobile devices. The concept of "1 web" is to provide a unified service that caters to the needs of users by developing mobile friendly content. It is possible to create web sites that look good when viewed in a browser or with a mobile device. At present viewing a typical Web site on a mobile device does little to enhance or add value to the users experience.

Three component used for mobile connectivity are the web site, a moble device and a web browser working together but the focus of this document is site usability, the deliverables. It is easy to ignore change until it becomes essential and many sites will miss the boat by leaving changes until later. People are using mobile devices today so you are missing out on a growing market if your site is not compliant.

What is needed to be considered?

Usable Screen Width: - 120 Pixels.
Mark Up Language Support: - XHTML - Basic Profile.
Character Encoding: - UTF-8.
Image Format Support: - JPEG, GIF 89a (non-interlaced, non-transparent, non-animated).
Maximum Total Page Weight: - 20k Bytes.
Colors: - Web safe.
Style Sheet Support: - External CSS Level 1, with internal definition of style and font properties.

XHTML is the best standard to work with for all new web projects that conform to the requierements with consideration for the limitations of mobile Iternet connectivity. Presentation of a web site on a small screen and navigating with small buttons that replace the mouse and keyboard are limiting factors. Mobile devices have low connection speeds, the cost to download is higher and payable even if the content cannot be rendered by a device.

The shortfalls require mobile users to have a different set of objectives than desktop web surfers. Filling in forms to become a member and other tasks that desktop systems complete easily become difficult if not impossible to perform with mobile devices. Users of mobile devices want information at their fingertips, thats the purpose of having connectivity in your pocket so new web site should be designed to comply with the best practises.

If you are building a web site be sure that the end result can be delivered to the entire spectrum of connectable devices by insisting on validation to XHTL 1.0 Strict or Transitional, it will pay dividends in the long term.

Coweb.biz solutions are validated to the highest standard possible. We can redevelop existing web sites to the same high standards and improve the search engine performance. Unless a web site builders guarantees compliance to a standard suitable for mobile devices you are only buying a web site that can only deliver to a portion of the target audience. Don't spend good money on a half measure only to pay again to fix it later, start with a professional Coweb.biz solution from the start. Visitors to your site will be pleased you did.

Complying to Standards

I just followed a link to view some template offered by another web design company and all I can say is buyer beware. After changing the browser window the page failed to hold its layout and the flash animation appears in the middle of the page when the screen is panned accross. A bit more investigation revealed that there was 32 errors on the web page offering to sell a set of 8 web page templates for $175.00 US. That is clearly a rip off price let alone the faults in the product. Coweb.biz products are validated to the standards set by the web consortium to ensure it conforms.

Web pages that meet appropriate standards can guarantee they will display content correctly with any browser or Internet device that also complies with the standards. A validated web page that does not render correctly indicates a fault with the browser, they all have some. Tables have display errors in Windows Explorer and Opera has difficulty with many Windows components like online WYSIWYG editors.

Coweb.biz dynamic Internet solutions are not a set of templates that we send you and leave you to sort out. We work with you to add content to the main web pages, customise the look and test to the W3C standard for XHTML 1.0 - Strict. This ensures your information can be accessed from any Internet enabled device - computers, moble phones, PDA's and digital assistants. You have no limit on the number of web pages you create or how many articles you add with blogger.

Don't get ripped off, when you deduct the cost of the blue pin we include with every solution sold to Australian customers our product costs less than $50- US more. Fifty bucks isn't much to pay for the ability to add content conveniently and quickly when you need to. We put you in total control with full support to ensure your web site performs.