This is a showcase implementation of a project that enables users to administer dynamic content on their website via the web-application "ud8".
Providing companies with the ability to create, edit and delete content without any knowledge of the technical side of webpage creation.
The project is composed of a website and the accompanying web-application. (Further Informations can be found on the homepage.)
Developer, programmer, usability and accessibility expert.
Responsible for programming, all aspects of the technical implementation of this project and guarantor for an usable and accessible realization.
This project (website & application) is designed and created with accessibility, web-standards and search engine optimization in mind.
All pages of this site are mostly "Bobby A", "Section 508", "WCAG A" respectively "ATAG" approved, complying with most of the guidelines.
All pages of this site validate as canonical XHTML and CSS, and are marked with structured, semantic XHTML.
All pages of this site have keywords, keyphrases, metadata and text alternatives provided and implemented in the appropriate elements.
(Definition from Wikipedia)Microformats are markup that allow expression of semantics in an HTML (or XHTML) web page. Programs can extract meaning from a standard web page that is marked up with microformats.
This Project (website only) utilizes microformats for addresses and events, this - beside improving findability for specialized search-engines - gives the user the ability to download event-data to their offline calendar-application or respectively address-data to their offline addressbook-application.
(Definition from Wikipedia)Progressive Enhancement [...] emphasizes accessibility, semantic markup, and external stylesheet and scripting technologies, [...] that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a webpage, using any browser or Internet connection, while also enabling those with better bandwidth or more advanced browser software to experience an enhanced version of the page.
In this project (website & application) progressive enhancement is used beside all the other mentioned reasons primarily to improve usability by implementing client-side scripting only as an enhancement, guarantying that users without javascript enabled browsers can still make use of all features.
(Definition from Wikipedia)Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique [...]. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server [...], so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded [...].
In this project (website & application) so called ajax is utilized for the named reasons but always taking into account the dangers of this technic like breaking user expectations (back-button and history functionality) or disorientation of disabled users (by thoughtless creation of content) to name just a few.
(Definition from Wikipedia)Google Maps [...] is a free web map server application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services [...] and embedded maps on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner and an urban business locator [...], and satellite images for the whole world.
In this project (website only) google maps technology is utilized to show the location of the office on an interactive map.
(Definition from Wikipedia)A rewrite engine is a piece of web server software used to modify URLs [...] Some benefits derived from a rewrite engine are: Making website URLs more user friendly, [...] search-engine friendly [...]
In this project (website & application) url rewriting is used to make dynamic content more findable for search-engines and additionally to provide "pretty urls" to boast usability.
(Definition from Wikipedia)A web feed is a document (often XML-based) which contains content items with web links to longer versions. News websites and blogs are common sources for web feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured information ranging from weather data to "top ten" lists of hit tunes to search results.
In this project (website only) a feed is available, allowing for offline reading of news.
All article include a link for a browser-based-version of the feed.
The e-mail communication of this project supports a strict no spam-policy.
The project (website & application) allows no unsolicited e-mails being send. All recipients must first sign-up and have to be reconfirmed before any further e-mails are send to the recipient (Double Opt-in). Furthermore all e-mails include an option to easily unsubscribe. Additionally all send e-mails have an attached imprint to properly identify the sender.
All mailings in html-format include a link for a browser-based version of the e-mail, thereby guarantying anyone's access to the content.
