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In the Works: the ArisHost Reseller Program
As if the recently launched Affiliate Program wasn't enough great news, the ArisHost Team has once again gone back to the drawing board for another partnership scheme with its clients.
The Reseller Program is now in the works and it's looking like another major coup for ArisHost. According to a company official, "Our goal is to be the best of what's out there. There are so many domain registrars and web hosting companies around, but it's actually just a few that can offer its customers truly comprehensive and mutually beneficial service packages. ArisHost is on that track. With our Reseller Program, we're a step onward because we're sure this'll bring in more business partners-more growth."
The soon-to-be launched Reseller Program brings in members into the domain registration and web hosting business. The Program makes available the backend systems of ArisHost, where in resellers can offer the company's products and services at their own rate while using the expert designs and programs of the company. ArisHost will even come out with content in different languages for them. It is, in essence, letting members create and operate their own dotcoms, without having to invest as much time and capital in system development.
AH! Trends
Hard or Easy HTML
Maybe, in these days of fast paced Internet where dotcoms are neck to neck in competition for traffic and e-commerce profit, it is understandable why some webmasters turn to WYSIWYG HTML Editors. Yet, this practice comes with a complicated set of advantages and disadvantages that should be weighed carefully. It might just be easier to spend that time learning hard code HTML, than to rely on these WYSIWYG editors that would eventually need expert decoding.
The major strike against the "easy and fast" editors, such as Dreamweaver and Front Page, is that, while these programs create amazing pages, they also churn out many unnecessary codes. These codes end up incorrectly displaying web pages in browsers that don't support them. A lot of designers have had to 'clean up' codes generated by these editors, which is a waste of a lot time just to make sure that most web browsers display sites as intended. The upside is that there is so much ease in their use, especially with Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver has the much-lauded behaviors-built-in JavaScript code for special effects, and site management perks, such as its built-in FTP client.
It boils down to balancing HTML hard coding and the design privileges of these software packages. It is necessary to know a little bit of HTML for whatever kind of website design-and only HTML can create CSS pages that reduce scripting work by a lot. With HTML software though, the creative pace is fast, and there are seemingly endless possibilities. In any case, efficiency and robustness remain the important elements in web design, and hard coding knowledge as well as practical WYSIWYG editing should combine into an ideal.
References:
HTML - A Little History
By Tara Star, Jan. 2001
www.climbtothestars.org
Web Design
By Jacques Surveyer
home.inforamp.net
Weaving an Untangled Web: Macromedia's Dreamweaver 3
By Jim Rible
ONLINE, September 2000
www.onlineinc.com
Link Up!
www.webdesignclinic.com
This is a pretty cool All-Links site that focuses on important elements of web design, from getting started, graphics and fonts, to site promotion secrets. It is not as comprehensive as is ideal but for Internet beginners, it's good enough. You'd sure to learn something even though information overload is remote-just enough to get started in the web. There's an obvious attempt at being more than a link site, with its newsletter announcement being out front, most recently updated last 1999. But then, the contents of this issue remain relevant as there are tips and guidelines in using still-popular web design programs.
Our Site!
The ArisHost site of the week:
www.aeroscribe.com
Master switch on, Fuel Pump, prime, CLEAR, start. The Airplane began humming contentedly. We waddled slowly down the lane to the highway, where the blasts of other planes clearing their throats loosened bits of rock and left the surface rough. The tires rumbled, and then it was our turn: Strobes on, transponder on. The Airplane said, "Growl - I'm ready NOW!"
- from The Airplane Laughed by Bill Howard
Now who would have thought that pilots could be great with the written word, as well? Aeroscribe.com is a wonderful site for the content-hungry, with its simple user interface, and rich and very interesting write-ups. The web site is full of literary articles and logs by anyone and everyone who've stepped on a plane, be it as pilot or passenger, and have been inspired by these experiences. Check it out!
AH! Relief
A friend emailed this to us and gave us a much-needed break.
WHAT MATURITY HAS TAUGHT ME
I've learned that you cannot make
someone love you. All you can do is
stalk them and hope they panic and give in.
I've learned that no matter how much I care,
some people are just assholes.
I've learned that it takes years
to build up trust, and it only takes
suspicion, not proof, to destroy it.
I've learned that you shouldn't
compare yourself to others - they are
more screwed up than you think.
I've learned that you can keep vomiting
long after you think you're finished.
I've learned that we are responsible
for what we do, unless we are celebrities.
I've learned that regardless of
how hot and steamy a relationship is at
start, the passion fades, and there had better
be a lot of money to take its place.
I've learned that 99% of the time when something
isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it.
I've learned that the people you care most
about in life are taken from you too soon
and all the less important ones just never go away.
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Just how much HTML do I need to know for my homepage? I had just bought one of those web design software, which got raised eyebrows from some of my designer-friends. -- Scoffed and Confused
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