For years, the limitations of good old-fashioned HTML have driven web development toward more flexible means of constructing web pages. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), in combination with HTML and JavaScript, yield incredibly efficient and high-function pages. Now, with the advent of so many new ways to access the internet, it has become critical to take a giant step forward in web design to make pages readable by many devices.
In the past few years, web logs, or blogs, have become all the rage. Where people used to host personal websites, now they put up a MySpace page and launch a blog to keep everyone they know, and lots of people they don't, informed as to their activities. Blogs, from being simple online musings, have risen to challenge established news media as a source of information, and they are a remarkable means of measuring the current state of user opinion.
In the current very scary economic environment, every company is examining its business model for ways to streamline operations and find new revenue streams without sacrificing employees or quality of service. For many, the web, perhaps up to now an unthinkable alternative, or one believed to be incompatible with the company’s brand or business methodologies, has become worthy of a second look.