Web Site Design in Toronto

I am looking for information on exactly what sites with the ability to upload content like video, user profiles, and indexing capabilities are built with… PHP or what?

Basically, I want to build a site that allows users to have a profile and upload a video on their profile, and I want to index content on my site for users to use keywords to search for profiles. I’m not worried about the technical knowledge, I just need to know what these sites are built with.

Also, I want the profiles to have the ability to message other profiles. Not to steal an idea, but I will use myspace as a perfect example. Take this like myspace with a few modifications and an indexing function geared toward a specific target audience. Any help would be appreciated.

You can build a social networking type site in Joomla (php based, I do believe):

http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla/getting-started.html
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How can i design a good professional qualified site? is dreamwaver required? Any softwares required? How much programming languages required? is 2d or 3d required? Please answer these and also tell the best place to learn webdesign online. To design a site you probably need photoshop, and to make it code you need to learn CSS/xhtml. I agree, Photoshop is probably a must.

As for putting together the code, notepad works fine but I mostly use Eclipse (free) which works a little like Dreamweaver. Doesn’t have everything Dreamweaver has, but it’s enough for the ‘price’. I use Xampp (free) as an offline testing ground (because I use PHP in my sites).

Place I learned most of my stuff is pixel2life.com or w3schools.com which teaches a lot of other codes as well as xhtml and css so is real useful. Best way to get a professional site is to hire a professional designer! The two basic things you need are Photoshop (for the layout) and Dreamweaver (for the codes). There are a lot of tutorials that are available on the net like what KJB said.

But if you do not have the time to do a template by yourself, you can use free templates on the web at first. One thing not to do is use a PSD converter. Make sure the code is done by you, it should be; elegant, valid and easy to understand.

Also, a lot of web page designers will create shit code. It wont make sense to anyone, don’t use them!

What do you think is best Free Software to create web pages?

You need a good editor. There are a bunch out there. Emacs and Vim are the best, but may be more powerful than you need or are willing to learn. For a graphics editor, get the GIMP. Photo$hop does print stuff better, but GIMP is its equal for web graphics and custom software development.

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You should also install ImageMagick for all its graphics utilities. (All graphics on my own site have been made with ImageMagick or Inkscape.) Inkscape should be your choice for vector graphics. It is probably a bit superior to the commercial products such as Illustrator, or Corel Draw, etc.. Don’t forget your development server. Go with Apache2 plus MySQL and PHP.

Various utilities are all available free; ssh, ftp (Firefox’s FireFTP is a very nice addon application.), wget (this is a spider, among other things. It can check that every link on your site is working, e.g..), scp, etc. Browsers from the four majors. I may have forgot something, but all suggestions are best of breed and free.

Design and graphics > GIMP or PhotoFiltre (no layers)
Coding > PSPad
And XAMPP to build/test it all locally.

I use PSPad on my EeePC and PortableApps stick. It has coloured syntax highlighting and FTP, which is enough to make me happy. It seems that when you made this post, I guess you werent very specific or something, because people went from saying to use dreamweaver to wordpress, both which do very different things. If i interpreted correctly, I think you ment more on the dreamweaver side, but I personally dislike dreamweaver, and use: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/

Last month I wrote about simplistic views of UI test automation in which some people want to pretend that recording for playback or scripting hard-coded actions and data to mimic some human’s interactions at the keyboard is an automated test associated with paranormalfurniture. Balderdash! Automating a set of sequences or preconceived steps simply for the sake of automating or preparing an environment is perhaps what Kaner, et. el. mean when they refer to computer assisted testing; however, computer assisted testing is not the same as a well designed automated test. (And yes, computers are very good tools for completely automating some types of tests quite effectively; including the oracle.) We see a lot of computer assisted testing in UI automation projects. I suspect this occurs because people are focused on trying to automate a test the same way they or an end-user would interact with the computer rather than design the automated test to evaluate an important attribute or capability of the software in order to provide significant information to the project team and add value to the testing process.

Personally, I am not a big fan of UI automation because it is usually done poorly, and it is usually very fragile and needs constant massaging; more so than test automation that runs below the UI layer. Also, I see a lot of misuse of UI automation. For example, I recently came across a comment by one fellow that wrote, “UI Automation is not necessarily meant for testing the UI (though, we use it for that also).” What??? I do understand the need for UI automation in the testing process, and done well it can provide tremendous benefit and free up my time to actually design new tests and think more critically about what has and has not been tested. But, when I automate through the UI my test cases are primarily testing behavioral aspects of the software (end-user scenarios for example) and that UI elements call the appropriate event handlers. While UI automation can be used to test functional capabilities also, it is generally not the best approach for robust functional testing. This is especially true when the automated UI test is over-loaded with excess baggage (manipulating UI elements not directly associated with the purpose of a test). The more baggage a UI test carries, the greater the potential for maintenance nightmares.

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Bugs plague almost all software systems. Indeed, more than half the time spent in a typical software project is on bug fixing [1]. Given the severe consequences bugs may have and the significant percentage of project effort associated with them, tackling bugs is of fundamental importance.

Defect detection is the primary strategy used to tackle defects, with testing being the predominant way defect detection is accomplished. In the past decade, inspections have been increasingly used to supplement testing. Still, defects present a significant problem. The software industry must continue to find new cost-effective ways to supplement current strategies to find defects.

This article proposes new approaches to detect defects. Developers engage in certain activities, often to detect defects in their new code. The new approaches are additions to these activities towards detecting defects in the existing code. These additions require little extra effort. Since defects in the existing code are detected almost as a by-product of these activities, they are referred to as (BDs)1. This strategy has resulted not only in efficient detection of BDs but also in easier fixing.

I, along with a team at Infosys Technologies, have been applying these approaches for the past eight years on large and complex software systems and have found hundreds of defects.

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