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Our Application Development and Custom Programming Expertise Includes:
HTML / CSS
Programming
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the fundamental building block of
the World Wide Web, the core language in which Websites and Web pages
are coded. It is basically nothing more than a regulated method of
structuring text and accompanying files such as images and sounds. As
the World Wide Web has matured, once static HTML pages are now often
supplemented with other technologies in order to make them more dynamic
and animated. Such supporting technologies include CSS (Cascading Style
Sheets), used to describe extended formatting capabilities of an HTML
document, and DHTML (Dynamic HTML), which is a technique of creating
interactivity within an HTML document by combining HTML, a client-side
scripting language (such as JavaScript) and layout definitions through
Cascading Style Sheets.
JavaScript Programming
JavaScript an object-based scripting language that is often embedded
directly within html documents in order to provide additional display or
interactive functionality. These supplemental features and operations
execute client-side: that is, on the user's local computer. This can be
advantageous on several levels. The processing power required is
provided by the local computer rather than the referring server, thus
enabling certain computationally-intensive tasks to perform in a more
efficient and timely manner. Additionally, jobs that can be performed by
the client computer via JavaScript can do so without sending data over
the network, so less bandwidth is consumed, and security risks are
minimized.
Cold Fusion ( Cold Fusion ) Programming
Cold Fusion is a tag-based, middleware programming language developed
specifically for the purpose of creating web applications. It is a
commercial product, currently owned and distributed by Macromedia Inc.
(soon to be acquired by Adobe Systems Inc.), and is generally recognized
to be the easiest rapid development language for web application
purposes. It has a large user community, standardized usage parameters,
and is typically easy and inexpensive to find qualified support for.
Because it is not an open-source or freeware technology, web hosting
accounts equipped with the Cold Fusion application server are typically
slightly more expensive.
ASP Programming
ASP (Active Server Pages) is a language-neutral server-side scripting
environment developed by Microsoft Corporation. ASP is standardly
configured with VBScript and JScript (Microsoft's implementation of
JavaScript) scripting engines, and is most commonly employed utilizing
those technologies. However, ASP can also be made to accommodate PERL,
REXX, Python, Visual Basic, C++, or Java, depending upon the developer's
preference or what the project at hand calls for.
PHP / MySQL Programming
PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is quickly becoming the most popular
open-source scripting language used for generating and serving dynamic
web content. The term open-source, is used to describe software with a
source code that is freely redistributed. Syntactically, PHP is a fusion
of Perl, Java and C characteristics, and is particularly well-suited for
tasks that require vigorous database interfacing. MySQL is the leading
open source SQL-based relational database management system (RDBMS).
MySQL is powerful, fast, reliable, easy to use, and is generally the
storage mechanism most often used in conjunction with PHP.
Perl / CGI Programming
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) refers to a veteran and versatile
framework of server-side technologies that includes high-level
programming languages such as C, C++ and most frequently, Perl
(Practical Extraction and Reporting Language). Perl is a
general-purpose, interpreted, procedural programming language originally
intended for text manipulation, but now used for a wide range of
purposes such as system administration, network configuration, GUI
creation, and of course, web application development and deployment.
Most web servers are standardly equipped with a Perl interpreter. Perl
is fast, efficient, powerful, robust, may be either compiled or
interpreted as needed, and is completely cross platform.
XML Programming
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose
markup language used for creating custom and task-specific languages.
XML is particularly useful for projects that involve exchanging data
between separate and distinct applications such as batch processes and
server-to-client feeds.
Internet Database Design, Development & Programming
Database-driven web applications provide much greater efficiency,
flexibility and forward compatibility than their hard-coded
counterparts. Features such as online shopping, online catalogs,
automated research assistance, and the distribution of personalized
information require smartly designed information exchange mechanisms.
Some of the database software programs commonly employed in conjunction
with web-based systems include Microsoft Access (MS Access), Microsoft
SQL Server (MS SQL Server) and MySQL. These tools utilize Structured
Query Language (SQL), which passes and describes data storage and
retrieval commands between the database and the rest of the application.
More complex systems that must manage very large amounts of data may
utilize advanced technologies from companies such as Sybase and Oracle
(the Oracle Database Management System, Oracle DBMS or Oracle RDBMS).
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