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Here is some information regarding html5 that I’ve found surfing the web. Regards

Here some useful tools for web applications:

1. Ajax loading application: here is some nice feature for web developers that allow us to create some animated gifs which can be used when some ajax request is in process. Why is it important? Because we’re showing the user that something is actually happening when she/he has requested something and there is a waiting time needed to show the expected results.
2. Tiled backgrounds designer: web designers can used this to generate some professional backgrounds with patterns that now is a trend. Apart from being useful, it’s a nicely developed web 2.0 application since you can post your background, there is community sharing and voting and it’s a usable and efficient application. It will definitely rank in my choice for web applications

Taken from dailyblogtips.com, here is a some sound definition for blog:

A blog is basically a type of website, like a forum or a social bookmarking site. As such it is defined by the technical aspects and features around it, and not by the content published inside it.

The features that make blogs different from other websites are:

• content is published in a chronological fashion
• content is updated regularly
• readers have the possibility to leave comments
• other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and pingbacks
• content is syndicated via RSS feeds

Wikipedia in the other hand has this:

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something.

I would add that logging allows to share information and create a community, which are the basis of web 2.0.

Here some results of Danni Dover’s investigation about blogs:

Well It may not be literally new, but as any web technology introduced, it takes for something really cool and new time to be widely used (such as web standards, ). So I’ve been reading about this and you might want to take some time (a lot actually… I haven’t research them all but this post will help us all with some kind of guide for further reading).

Adoble Flex
http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/1a.+Learning+Points

SQLite
http://www.sqlite.org/

Adobe Air.
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/comparison/

Silverlight
http://www.silverlight.net

Let’s start with a classic definition from wikipedia:

A webform on a web page allows a user to enter data that is, typically, sent to a server for processing and to mimic the usage of paper forms. Forms can be used to submit data to save on a server (e.g., ordering a product) or can be used to retrieve data (e.g., searching on a search engine).

So, web forms are really needed nowadays (think about this “leave a comment” feature for the most web 2.0 systems).

Here you will find how to build a web form standards-complaint and accesible (using labels and “for” attribute, for instance).

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/fancy-form-design-css

This is another reference; a study about the usability, design and programming about the web forms:

• Hover, active, focus – effects in use?
• Help, support, tooltips: static or dynamic?
• Help, support, tooltips: where are they placed?
• Input validation: static or Ajax?
• Design of error messages
• Is it necessary to confirm the e-mail?
• Is it necessary to confirm the password?
• Is captcha in use?
• Cancel-button in use?
• Alignment of the submit-button
• Thank-you message
• Further findings

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/08/web-form-design-patterns-sign-up-forms-part-2/