Monday, May 23, 2011

Disadvantages of Using FRAME TAG in HTML

Frames are Not "Search Engine Friendly"
Most (if not all) search engines are unable to index frames-based websites properly. Because frames are made up of multiple pages, only one frame is indexed at a time. It's not indexed within context of the other frames. This often means that, when someone finds your website via a search engine, your website looks wrong.

Frames are Not "URL Friendly"


With frames based websites, all pages share the same URL. For example, if your homepage is located at 'yoursite.com', when you click through to other pages on your website, the URL won't change.

This causes problems if someone tries to bookmark a page. If they click through to a subsequent page they find useful, they might want to bookmark it. Problem is, instead of bookmarking say, 'yoursite.com/about_us.html', they would be bookmarking 'yoursite.com' - the homepage!


Frames are Not as Accessible

Although most modern browsers support frames-based websites, not all do. It is for this reason that you should always implement a 'noframes' version of your website for user agents who are unable to view the frames-based version.



Disadvantages of Using Frames
Disadvantages(Cons) of using Frames :
1. One of the main disadvantage of frames is search engines will not deal with them properly. i.e, search engines (including most popular ones) will not index pages containing frames as its hard for them to search for a specific content and move backwards to check to which frameset each page belongs to and retrieve all the pages in the frameset.

2. Its hard to navigate through pages in frames when we have more than two or three frames.

3. Its difficult to print the content of all frames when compared to a normal web page.

4.. Some browsers doesn't support frames, so we need to place the content seperately for the people who doesn't have frames using noframes tags

5. We cannot bookmark individual pages using browser's Favourites Menu.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

THE BROKERAGE MODEL

Whether a company sells products or services to consumers, other businesses, or both, there are many different ways to approach the marketplace and make a profit. Business models, of which the brokerage model is simply one, are used to describe how companies go about this process. They spell out the main ways in which companies make profits by identifying a company's role during commerce and describing how products, information, and other important elements are structured. Just as there are many different industries and types of companies, there are many different kinds of business models. While some are simple, others are very complex. Even within the same industry, companies may rely on business models that are very different from one another, and some companies may use a combination of several different models.

One Internet business model is the brokerage model. At the heart of this model are third parties known as brokers, who bring sellers and buyers of products and services together to engage in transactions. Normally, the broker charges a fee to at least one party involved in a transaction. While many brokers are involved in connecting consumers with retailers, they also may connect businesses with other businesses or consumers with other consumers. A wide variety of different scenarios or business configurations fall under the banner of a brokerage model. These include everything from Web sites posting simple online classified ads and Internet shopping malls (Web sites that sell products from a variety of different companies) to online marketplaces, online auctions, aggregators, and shopping bots.

Community Model

The community model is a method of developing an online presence in which several individuals or groups are encouraged to join and participate in ongoing interaction designed around a common purpose. Web communities, or virtual communities, were not only a way for like-minded people to come together online, they also were an increasingly important element of business plans.
the community model comes in two basic varieties: those centered on relationships and those centered on tasks. The former typically are informal, grassroots-oriented communities that revolve around shared interests, ideas, topics, and goals. In these communities, the development of relationships is the primary goal. To maximize member involvement, community sites must offer maximum degrees of interactivity and personalization. For example, GeoCities offers space and tools for members to set up their own Web sites and establish virtual communities within the broader GeoCities community. Task-centered communities generally are more structured and impersonal. The relationships established or augmented online are a means to a mutual end, such as enhanced profits. More specifically, Web communities are established between business partners, between businesses and their customers, between different groups of customers, within companies, and between individuals and groups devoted to particular topics.

In business-to-business (B2B) relationships, the community model provides all community members with the ability to share and check electronic invoices, communicate and exchange funds on secured networks, and resolve problems quickly and openly. Internet communities offer exceptionally streamlined workflow processes between and within companies, where the functionality of key tasks is integrated and synthesized. This necessitates less personnel, paperwork, and software, and boosts efficiency, thereby minimizing operating costs and enhancing profit margins.