In building, there are styles known to architects. If you speak of a style, they know what you mean. An architectural pattern, like an architectural style, imposes a transformation on the design of an architecture. However, a pattern differs from a style in a number of fundamental ways: (1) the scope of a pattern is…
Software Architecture is the structure, or structures, of the system that comprise of software components, the externally visible properties of the components, and the relationships among them. Architecture is not operational software, rather it is representative to allow you to see how effective your design is and consider alternatives. It focuses on components. It may…
Linking to an external site means you always need to give the full address. This includes the host, any subfolders, as well as the final file that you wish to link to. Additionally, you will need to prepend the protocol. As of 2019, Google and others are recommending everyone be using https (Hyper Text Transfer…
The most common form of linking will be to other pages within your website. These are often called internal site links, as they are part of your own website. When you link to another file, you need to specify the file name in the href attribute like is shown below. Notice that the only required…
Long web pages were common in the mid to late nineteen nineties. Old servers used to charge by the number of pages you stored on them, and the number of pages that were downloaded. Therefore many developers created long pages on content, instead of breaking it down into smaller chunks. To make navigation within the…
HTML documents came out of the desire to share information from one place to the next. But an early determination was that there was a need to interconnect related documents. That way, instead of having to incorporate all the information from multiple sources, the author could reference another document and it would be easy to…
Now we want to edit the links in our navigation bar. We have not looked at linking elements yet, so we’ll ignore the links themselves, and focus on initial styling. First we’ll set our nav tag. These three rules will set the padding, so we have some space around our navigation bar, fix it so…
A very similar problem to the Traveling Salesperson problem is finding the best route. And this one you most likely have directly encountered. Have you ever tried to find a way to a destination using more than one map finding software? Maybe you used Google Maps, MapQuest, and your car’s GPS, and they all gave…
