Webmaster Fees

Webmaster Fees
Listen up, you sick freaks!!!!?

I recently logged onto my 16 year old son's computer because I'm having trouble with my office machine. Right on his desktop he has a folder marked yahooanswers. I figured that it must be where he keeps his favorite questions, but I opened it up and was HORRIFIED by what I saw. It was laden with child pornography, dismembered limbs, and all around deviant, sickening images. You people let my son onto your website without ANY age verification, he was looking at things that I never imagined could exist. I will be filing legal papers soon unless you take down this offensive site or change your policies so that minors may not access it. In addition, I will be petitioning your webmaster to pay for my son's psychiatrist fees, which are going to be substantial considering what I've seen.

Boy! are you gonna be embarrassed when you file those charges, only to find out that it's not Yahoo Answers where these pictures came from----but from porn sites--(that are legal--tho horribly distasteful to most of us)--that "your son" has pulled up----and saved to a "dummy" folder.
I wonder how long he's been pulling the wool over your eyes ?
Why didn't (or haven't) you set up the "Parental Control" on his computer to prevent his access to those sites----surely you know how inquisitive teenage boys (and girls) can be----AND that they'll lie about their age if they want something not available to teens. DUH.

I understand your outrage, but be sure you direct your anger in the right direction.
It's tough raising kids---(been there, done that)---you have to be on your toes ALL the time.

Good luck to ya.

What Webmasters Need to Know

The duties of the Webmaster are to develop and maintain an Internet presence that will provide access to content and increase awareness of the organization’s offerings. Part of the job of maintaining this kind of digital presence is ensuring user access through the site’s interface. Now, more than ever, there is a need for creativity in design and knowledge of the latest programming languages. Webmasters of yesteryear could probably perform their job sufficiently enough with proficiency in just Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Today, the number of programs and programming languages used in the Web design process has increased greatly, and access to the Internet is now possible through multiple technologies. Mobile phones, for example, are capable of accessing the Web, which makes Web building considerations more complicated and challenging than before.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) is a relatively new standard in HTML layout and requires a level of precision above that required for HTML. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is similar to HTML, but allows for greater separation of content and style. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) are style sheets that can be applied to Web pages to give styling control over the look of the page. Prior to the release of CSS and XSLT, styling was dependant upon the rigid and limited potential of HTML. The look of Web pages is partially shaped by graphic objects, such as photographs and drawings. Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) and Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) are the two most popular forms of graphic object formats; but, PNG (Portable Network Graphics) has recently been added to the list of options. Improvements in communication through the use of graphics has been accompanied by communication improvements through access to text by way of blogs (short for Weblog). Blogs have emerged as popular communication tools on the Internet and provide helpful options for the librarian in the realm of information accessibility.

A library, just like any organization, possesses the need to reach an Internet-based audience. Since libraries primarily serve as information providers, its electronic portal is arguably more important than it is for other organizations. Entire library catalogs require maintenance and updates to go along with their online presence. The ability to request materials and pay late fees is an increasingly popular off-site function of the library Web site and is demanded in an increasing number of libraries.

In order to describe the relationship between HTML, XHTML, and XML, the beginnings of markup languages must be discussed. Although fairly new, the origins of the Web have already evolved through many coding standards. Web page design had its roots in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), which spawned HTML, XHTML, and XML. SGML was a much broader, albeit more complicated, document-processing system than the current markup languages. HTML, XHTML, and XML are all markup languages, which means that special tags are placed around words and paragraphs to indicate the location and appearance of the words. XML is a successful attempt at combining the simplicity of XHTML and the functionality of SGML. Although different than HTML, XHTML is still very similar to HTML.

Nesting is allowed in both HTML and XHTML. Elements are not supposed to overlap in either HTML or XHTML. Browsers will usually correct for faulty HTML syntax; but, the code is not XHTML unless the overlapping markups are corrected in the code. Sauers explains that “these differences at first glance seem minor, yet they are at the heart of what an author needs to learn in order to take advantage of XHTML”. Newer technologies tend to be mobile and small and, thus, have less memory and processing power to correct for faulty code the way HTML has allowed for. Much of the new communication devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have access to the Web and perform better when the pages are designed with an adherence to XHTML. In order to bring HTML 4.0 up to the latest standards of XHTML, specific codes have to be changed.

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