HTML5 is still being finalized and although it will be several years before it becomes the standard verion of HTML used across the internet there are plenty of sites starting to use the new markup – an obvious example is YouTube using the <video> tag on some of it’s pages to show video without needing Flash… For the most part we won’t need to worry about HTML5 until IE9 has been released and IE6/7 has disappeared or at least drops to a sufficiently low level to not worry about but it’s worth thinking about now – with the launch of the iPad, HTML5 is getting talked about a lot more.

Some of the main differences between HTML5 and HTML4 is that there are new elements eg. <section> <header> <footer> <article>. Each of these elements are designed to contain certain parts of the web document to allow for easier accessibility – and no doubt the big search engines are already working out how best to read HTML5 sites and use the data to optimize their results.

What is HTML 5?
HTML5 is currently under development as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gears.

What is HTML Video?
HTML5 video is an element introduced in the HTML5 draft specification for the purpose of playing videos or movies[1], partially replacing the object element.

As of May 2010[update], Adobe Flash Player was widely used to embed video on web sites such as YouTube, since the majority of web browsers had Adobe’s Flash Player installed (with controversial exceptions such as the browser on the Apple iPhone and iPad). HTML5 video is intended by its creators to become the new standard way to show video online, but has been hampered by lack of agreement as to which video formats should be supported in the video tag.

So on the Web, more and more social networking sites are sprouting up every day. But the majority of popularity has fallen upon Facebook and secondly, Myspace.

These social networking sites have the advantage of early entry to the marketplace and have established themselves as the leaders in this group. Myspace is generally for a younger audience who enjoys music and videos more than updates on there friends.

Facebook has become the practical site where people are more interested in updates from their friends list. Also there is an endless supply of web applications that have made Facebook fun and useful.

But where is this social networking trend taking us? Well, with Facebook, you can have “Fan” or “Company” Pages to help promote your group/business. You can also set up groups where people can gather online to share and discuss certain topics.

But the one weakness that Facebook has is that it is too general. Meaning, it is an online meeting place with no certain genre or niche. So on Facebook, you can meet anyone of any type, shape, ethnicity, age, location, etc. There isn’t a focus or requirement to join this global community.

And this is where a small start-up social networking site can have an advantage. By creating a site that specializes in a certain genre (say for example, young people who are fans of baseball), you can create a specific community that like-minded people can join and meet other similar people. So how is this done you may ask?

Media One Pro has the skills to produce a social networking site in a short amount of time (1-4 weeks). We can design and develop your site with any specific niche in mind!

What are the costs you may now ask? Well, to hire a developer to create the code and build your site, you would be looking at an upwards of $20-30,000. This does not include monthly hosting costs or monthly maintenance.

So now is a social networking site out of your league? Not with us! For a limited time, we can take on new projects and create your social network for less than $1,000 to setup and only $150/month for hosting and maintenance!

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4) Setup of Social Networking Application
5) 1 Content Management System installed and setup
6) 1 hour Social Media consultation (a $200 value!)
7) 1 month free hosting

After your initial setup fee ($1,000), you only pay $150/month. This includes hosting, support, and 1 article or 1 video optimization and submission.

You not only save yourself the $20-30,000 in developer costs, but you pay one flat monthly fee to maintain your own site (and dont’ forget, you can make this money back with simple ad placements, such as Google and Adbrite!).

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Media One has teamed up with Microsoft® to deliver fast, secure, ultra-reliable email, direct to your Outlook® inbox. With a new, built-in connection to the world’s most popular email client, Media One Email is easier and more convenient than ever before. Plus, you’ll have everything you need to stay organized, too, including calendar, address book and task management tools. Choose the plan that’s best for you based on how you use email…
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Microsoft Outlook earned its place as the world’s most popular email software by making it easier for users to stay connected, manage their schedules, increase their productivity and more. Powered by Microsoft’s Hosted Exchange service, here are the top 10 ways Outlook can work for you.

1. Instantly search all your information.
Having problems finding the information you need? Use Office Outlook 2007 to search for keywords, dates or other flexible criteria to locate items in your e-mail, calendar, contacts, or tasks.

2. Easily manage your daily priorities and information.
Check your priorities for the day by looking at the To-Do Bar where your flagged mails and tasks are clearly laid out.

3. Get better results faster with the redesigned Microsoft Office Fluent™ user interface.
Office Outlook 2007 has redesigned the look and feel so you now have all of the rich features and capabilities of Outlook in an accessible and streamlined location.

4. Connect with people easily and effectively.
New Office Outlook 2007 calendaring functionalities provide easy ways to share your calendar with anyone within or outside of your organization, giving your important contacts immediate access to your information.

5. Enjoy increased collaboration and functionality with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
Office Outlook 2007, used in conjunction with Exchange Server 2007, offers a rich and complete Outlook experience. Users benefit from a new scheduling assistant that automates time-consuming calendaring tasks, the ability to schedule and customize out-of-office communications, and managed folders that facilitate compliance needs.

6. Manage your shared information and content in one interface.
Office Outlook 2007 provides rich interaction with information stored in Windows SharePoint Services technology at any time. You can connect Windows SharePoint Services documents, calendars, contacts, tasks, and other information to Office Outlook 2007, giving you a central place to manage your information.

7. Enjoy new measures that help keep you safe from junk e-mail and malicious sites.
Office Outlook 2007 has taken new measures to help keep you safe from junk mail and phishing Web sites. To help protect you from divulging personal information to a threatening Web site, Office Outlook 2007 has an improved junk e-mail filter and has added new features that disable links and warn you about threatening content within an e-mail message.

8. Send text messages from Outlook with one easy click.
Outlook Mobile Service is a feature of Outlook that enables you to send and receive text and picture messages between Office Outlook 2007 and any mobile phone.

9. Organize your information in new, rich ways.
Using Color Categories in Office Outlook 2007, you can easily personalize and add categories to any type of information—e-mail, calendar items, contacts, or tasks.

10. Manage all your communication in one interface.
With Office Outlook 2007, you can now read and manage your Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and blogs right from within Office Outlook 2007, so you no longer have to leave Outlook to read the latest world news, catch up on your favorite sports team, or remain up to date on interesting blogs.

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.[2] An RSS document (which is called a “feed”, “web feed”,[3] or “channel”) includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an “RSS reader”, “feed reader”, or “aggregator”, which can be web-based or desktop-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs.

The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed’s URI (often referred to informally as a “URL”, although technically, those two terms are not exactly synonymous) into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user’s subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.

RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999,[4] the RSS icon (“”) first gained widespread use between 2005 and 2006.

Initials
The initials “RSS” are used to refer to the following formats:

Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

Confusion between Web feed and RSS
The term “RSS” (Really Simple Syndication) is still sometimes used to refer to web feeds in general, including web feeds with a format different than RSS. For example, the Blogspace description of using web feeds in an aggregator is headlined “RSS info” and “RSS readers” even though its first sentence makes clear the inclusion of the Atom format: “RSS and Atom files provide news updates from a website in a simple form for your computer. ”
History
The RSS formats were preceded by several attempts at web syndication that did not achieve widespread popularity. The basic idea of restructuring information about websites goes back to as early as 1995, when Ramanathan V. Guha and others in Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group developed the Meta Content Framework.[7] For a more detailed discussion of these early developments, see the history of web syndication technology.

RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS, was created by Guha at Netscape in March 1999 for use on the My.Netscape.Com portal. This version became known as RSS 0.9.[4] In July 1999, Dan Libby of Netscape produced a new version, RSS 0.91,[2] which simplified the format by removing RDF elements and incorporating elements from Dave Winer’s scriptingNews syndication format.[8] Libby also renamed RSS “Rich Site Summary” and outlined further development of the format in a “futures document”.[9]

This would be Netscape’s last participation in RSS development for eight years. As RSS was being embraced by web publishers who wanted their feeds to be used on My.Netscape.Com and other early RSS portals, Netscape dropped RSS support from My.Netscape.Com in April 2001 during new owner AOL’s restructuring of the company, also removing documentation and tools that supported the format.[10]

Two entities emerged to fill the void, with neither Netscape’s help nor approval: The RSS-DEV Working Group and Winer, whose UserLand Software had published some of the first publishing tools outside of Netscape that could read and write RSS.

Winer published a modified version of the RSS 0.91 specification on the UserLand website, covering how it was being used in his company’s products, and claimed copyright to the document.[11] A few months later, UserLand filed a U.S. trademark registration for RSS, but failed to respond to a USPTO trademark examiner’s request and the request was rejected in December 2001.[12]

The RSS-DEV Working Group, a project whose members included Guha and representatives of O’Reilly Media and Moreover, produced RSS 1.0 in December 2000.[13] This new version, which reclaimed the name RDF Site Summary from RSS 0.9, reintroduced support for RDF and added XML namespaces support, adopting elements from standard metadata vocabularies such as Dublin Core.

In December 2000, Winer released RSS 0.92[14] a minor set of changes aside from the introduction of the enclosure element, which permitted audio files to be carried in RSS feeds and helped spark podcasting. He also released drafts of RSS 0.93 and RSS 0.94 that were subsequently withdrawn.[15]

In September 2002, Winer released a major new version of the format, RSS 2.0, that redubbed its initials Really Simple Syndication. RSS 2.0 removed the type attribute added in the RSS 0.94 draft and added support for namespaces.

Because neither Winer nor the RSS-DEV Working Group had Netscape’s involvement, they could not make an official claim on the RSS name or format. This has fueled ongoing controversy in the syndication development community as to which entity was the proper publisher of RSS.

One product of that contentious debate was the creation of an alternative syndication format, Atom, that began in June 2003.[16] The Atom syndication format, whose creation was in part motivated by a desire to get a clean start free of the issues surrounding RSS, has been adopted as IETF Proposed Standard RFC 4287.

In July 2003, Winer and UserLand Software assigned the copyright of the RSS 2.0 specification to Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, where he had just begun a term as a visiting fellow.[17] At the same time, Winer launched the RSS Advisory Board with Brent Simmons and Jon Udell, a group whose purpose was to maintain and publish the specification and answer questions about the format.[18]

In December 2005, the Microsoft Internet Explorer team[19] and Outlook team[20] announced on their blogs that they were adopting the feed icon first used in the Mozilla Firefox browser . A few months later, Opera Software followed suit. This effectively made the orange square with white radio waves the industry standard for RSS and Atom feeds, replacing the large variety of icons and text that had been used previously to identify syndication data.

In January 2006, Rogers Cadenhead relaunched the RSS Advisory Board without Dave Winer’s participation, with a stated desire to continue the development of the RSS format and resolve ambiguities. In June 2007, the board revised their version of the specification to confirm that namespaces may extend core elements with namespace attributes, as Microsoft has done in Internet Explorer 7. According to their view, a difference of interpretation left publishers unsure of whether this was permitted or forbidden.

Desktop Applications

1001 for Mac OS X – Allows batch uploading and can notify you of new photos uploaded by your friends.

Background Switcher – Will auto-change your desktop background on a Windows machine at intervals of your choosing from a pool of photos you pick.

Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome – Desktop organizer for Linux that allows online and offline work on your photos and tagging.

Flickr and Webimager – Lets you capture your entire screen, or just a portion, and auto-upload it to your account.

Flickr Exporter for Aperture – Tag and upload your photos, store ID and URL for your photos in the Aperture program.

Flickr Exporter for iPhoto -Edit photos, add tags, resize before loading and several other useful options.

Flickr Finder – Mac OS X application for browsing your photos.

Flickr Notifier – An RSS reader that displays photos on your desktop from your friends’ accounts as they are uploaded.

Flickr Screensaver v3 – Turns your screensaver into a slideshow of your Flickr photos.

FlickrDown – A program that eases saving photos from Flickr to your hard drive.

FlickrFaves – Java based downloader to retrieve high-res images for your use.

FlickrUploadr – A bulk uploader for Linux.

jUploader – Runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Gives you batch uploading and tagging.

Nostalgia – Lets you search Flickr, create new photo sets and synchronize your desktop with your account.

OS X uploader – Uploader for Mac OS X 10.3 and above.

PictureSync – Application for Macs that allows you to upload to Flickr and several other services all at once.

Slickr – A combination download and high-res slideshow in one. Windows compatible.

Upload to Flickr via Windows XP Explorer – Allows you to upload directly from Windows Explorer.

Windows uploader – Drag and drop interface to upload pictures from your Windows desktop. Versions available for Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP.

Firefox Extensions

Better Flickr – Adds a menu of optional extra features to Flickr.

Fireflix – Sidebar extension to upload, manage and search photos on Flickr.

Flickr Sidebar – Sidebar that lets you search and browse photo lists.

FlickrFox – Lets you browse and search Flickr photos in a sidebar.

flickrgethighrez – Allows you to get a Flickr photo in the highest resolution possible.

Fotofox – Lets you pick and tag photos from your computer and upload them to Flickr and several other image hosts.

OakFlickr4PFF – Adds a Flickr uploader to your browser.

PicLens – Turns your screen into a full size image viewer.

Uploadr for Flickr – Lets you load an image directly from a website to your Flickr account.

Fun & Games

Big Huge Labs – Tons of little games to play with Flickr photos like making badges and motivational posters.

Bubblr – Add comicbook-like word balloons to Flickr photos.

Fastr – Presents you with random photos from Flickr; you have to guess the tag they have in common.

Flickr Chia Pet – Grow Chia hair on any photo.

FlickrLogoMakr – Turn any words into a Flickr-type logo with their font.

Flicktionary – Play a compound word game against it until you can guess what it’s thinking.

Hamster Sudoku – Uses images of hamsters from Flickr for you to play a picture version of the popular game.

Matchr – A Flickr puzzle game.

Memry – Play the classic game of Concenntration, but with pictures from Flic

Mosaickr – Creates a mosaic of your master photo using your other photos.

Printr Killr – Lets you make a calendar with your photos.

Spell With Flickr – Spell any word you want, this site grabs pictures of letters to spell it out.

Tag Man – Play the classic game of hangman by guessing the letters in a random photo tag.

The Internet Inferno – As you scroll through Dante’s levels of Hell, this page finds matching photos to the theme of each layer.

Greasemonkey Scripts

Ajax Photo Blogging in Flickr – Post a story about the photo you are looking at to your blog.

Flickr 5 Stars Ratings – Adds star ratings to your photos.

Flickr Ad Removal – Hides the text ads on the site.

Flickr All Sizes Menu – Adds a menu to select which size to see when hovering on the All Sizes button.

Flickr AllSizes+ – Allows you to access all sizes for a Flickr photo, copy the code and download the image.

Flickr Auto Page – Removes the need to click on the page numbers to go to another page, adds more to the page as you scroll.

Flickr Auto Tag – Lets you save and reuse tags you use frequently.

Flickr BBCode Generator – Automatically gives you the code to post the image on BBCode sites.

Flickr Contacts Organiser – You can tag each contact, giving you more search options.

Flickr EXIF Decorator – Lets you hover over a photo and puts a translucent overlay in the top left corner which shows you information about the camera.

Flickr GeoRadar – Shows you nearby geotagged images on a radar screen.

Flickr Group Display – Easier group management.

Flickr Image Src Exposer – Adds an “IMG LINK” tag making it so you can download any photo.

Flickr Keyboard Navigation – Adds keyboard shortcuts to some of the most common navigation moves on Flickr.

Flickr Mail To – Adds a “mailto” button above photos and also adds a “send page” link on every page.

Flickr More Home – Add more content to your home page.

Flickr Photo Magnifier – Adds a magnifier to the toolbar to see details in photos.

Flickr Photostream Graphr – Lets you graph how many times your stream has been viewed.

Flickr Quick Comment – Allows you to save commonly used feedback comments and choose the one you want leave.

Flickr Q u i c k r v0.3.3 – Add thumbnail/buddys & NavBar. Also removes all Yahoo ads and bloacked images.

Flickr remove spaceball – Removes the download deterrent image that appears over some photos.

Flickr Rich Edit – Gives you more options in the comments box when it comes to the font.

Flickr Search for Creative Commons – Will allow you to search only on Creative Commons licensed pics.

Flickr Show Licenses – Tell at a glance what the copyright status is of a photo.

Flickr Titles + Descriptions Batch Tools – Adds tools for batch editing titles and descriptions.

Flickr/Shutterfly Integrator – Gives you the ability to order prints of Flickr photos via Shutterfly.

FlickrCommentTools – Allows you to edit HTML into your comments and include your own photos.

FlickrMailManager – Add more options to your Flickr mailbox. Features such as mark all as read, delete all, send notification emails.

FlickrPM – Adds icons for mail, profile, favorites, Scout next to user names, allows you to send messages without leaving the page you’re on.

FlickRate – Adds a rating panel under a current photo in an effort to give Flickr a better ratings system.

Geotag Flickr with Multimap – Adds a “add geotags” link to photo pages so you can add geographical data.

Miscellaneous Plugins

Flickr4Writer – Plugin for Windows Live Writer blogging software that allows you to insert Flickr photos into your posts.

FlickUrPic – Module to let you add your Flickr photos, including private ones, to your Joomla powered site.

Flickengr – Adds Flickr pictures to the bottom of your Yahoo Messenger chats.

Flickr Sets – Enables you to display your photo sets on your Textpattern-powered weblog.

Galleryr – Adds a Flickr gallery to your Blojsom powered blog.

Google Maps in Flickr – Adds a Google map to check the geotagging on the photos without leaving the site.

WordPress Plugins and Tools

FAlbum – Allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.

Flickr Comment Importer – Imports comments from your Flickr account into your WordPress blog.

Flickr Photo Album – Allows you to add your Flickr photos to your blog as galleries, also gives you access in the admin area to add them easily to posts.

Flickr Tag Cloud Widget – A sidebar widget for WordPress that shows your Flickr tags in a tag cloud.

Flickr Widget – Display up to 10 photos from Flickr with this widget.

FlickrFaves – WordPress plugin that allows you to display your favorites on your site.

Kubrickr – Replace the “blue blob” at the top of the basic WordPress theme, Kubrick, with any image of your choosing from Flickr.

SimpleFlickr – Allows you to embed a Flickr-integrated simpleviewer into your WordPress site.

Website Tools

Chasr – A mini-application that lets you display your Flickr photos on your website.

‘Color Fields’ Color Picker – Choose a color from the color picker, pictures featuring that color pop up. Good if you are trying to design a website with a certain color scheme. And it’s oddly addictive to play with!

Flickr Anywhere – Allows you to display all your public photos on sites such as MySpace.

Flickr Color Selectr – Use a color picker and search only images that are Creative Commons Licensed and match the colors you need.

Flickr Module for CMS – Add Flickr pictures to your CMS Made Simple site.

Flickr Slideshow Generator – Allows you to generate the HTML you need to embed a Flickr slideshow in your website.

FlickrLilli – Search only for Creative Commons License tagged photos.

flickrSLiDR – Allows you to embed Flickr slideshows on your website or blog.

Gickr – Creates animated GIFs from your photos to use on your website.

PictoBrowsr – A photo set viewer to put on your website or MySpace.

Travelr – Free photo gallery you put on your site that allows you to display your photos geographically

Yahoo Widgets

FD Flickr Uploader – Background uploading, multiple photo drag and drop. Able to title, tag, enter descriptions, edit privacy settings on each photo. For Mac and Windows.

FlickrNotFrisk – Search photos on Flickr by tags and display the results. You can save images by clicking on search results. For Mac and Windows.

Flickr Upload – Drag and drop interface, allows you to tag before upload. For Mac and Windows.

Flickr Widget – Official Flickr upload widget by Yahoo. For Mac and Windows.

Magic Lantern – Desktop background image changing widget. Windows only.

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Before starting web design, it is advisable to learn HTML. Basic HTML skills can be learnt quickly and there are many tutorials available to get you started.

Some of the online guides for HTML are :
W3schools – has video tutorials which can be useful
HTMLgoodies
WebMonkey
The online guides start from basic coding and then move on to more advanced web design.

Code for a website can also be written using notepad. Compared to web publishing tools, it is usually more difficult to write HTML code from scratch and it usually takes a longer time for the same type of website. However handcoded websites usually do not contain bloated code and load quickly. Once a person learns to write HTML code, it becomes easier to make modifications in existing websites.