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Marc Taylor Creative is a web and graphic design firm based in Knoxville, Tennessee. We have been creating websites and other design since 1993 and have many services to meet your unique needs.

Website Design

By showcasing cutting-edge design, including striking Flash design elements, a custom Web site by Marc Taylor Creative will reflect only the highest of quality.

Flash Design

Help establish an impressive online presence for your company with animation and more.

E-commerce

Marc Taylor Creative offers companies the ability to grow their business with E-commerce solutions, such as the showcasing of your business’s products and efficient shopping operations. This service will keep your business’s operations open 24-hours a day – benefiting your company’s revenues and your accessibility.

A professionally designed website can help you attract new prospects and repeat customers. Marc Taylor Creative uses and engages only the latest proven technologies. Marc Taylor Creative only develops the tools and marketing that you need to make your business stand above your competitors. If you're looking for a great web design company in Knoxville, Tennessee and you want the best for your business, then please allow us to help you. Remember...It's what we do.

Web design services include:

• Corporate Website Development
• E-Commerce Solutions
• Website Marketing And Promotion
• Graphics Design
• Flash Web Site Design
• Logo Design
• Database Design and Integration
• Web Based Application Development
• Custom Programming For Online Applications
• Website Hosting
• Online Inventory Management
• Employee Management System
• Website Maintenance

Here are some common web-based terms:

Adobe Dreamweaver

A Web Development Program that is available for both Macs and PCs.

Adobe Flash

Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

Adobe Systems Incorporated

An American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company focuses upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products like Adobe Photoshop. They also now develop and distribute Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash.

API

Application Programming Interface (API) is an interface implemented by a software program to enable interaction with other software.

ASP

ASP stands for Active Server Pages. It is a Microsoft technology that runs inside Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

ASP.Net

ASP.Net is Microsoft's next generation of the ASP language. It provides a complete environment for content management and sharing over the Internet.

C/C++

A high-level programming language. C++ is one of the most popular programming languages for graphical applications, such as the ones that run in Windows and Macintosh environments.

CSS

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a new feature added to HTML that gives both Web site developers and users more control over how pages are displayed. Designers and users can create style sheets that define how headers, links, text, and more appear.

DHTML

Dynamic HTML adds more elegance to basic HTML. With DHTML, you can make changes without causing the whole screen to redraw. So, for example, in a DHTML site, users can roll over a menu and see the choices change color, or they see one graphic to turn into another graphic. A good DHTML programmer can write code that will be 'friendly' to all browsers and types of computers.

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language is the original and the simplest display language for the Web. It defines the look of the screen background, the location of text and graphics, the appearance of text,(font, size, style, color, line breaks) and the creation of links.

ISP

ISP (Internet Service Provider) is a company that provides access to the Internet. For a monthly fee, the service provider gives you a software package, username, password and access phone number. You can then log onto the internet and send and receive email provided you have a modem.

Java

Java is an entire programming language similar to C or C++. It takes a sophisticated programmer to create and maintain Java code. With Java, you can create complete applications or improve your HTML. There are sometimes compatibility problems between Java and various browsers, operating systems or computers, and if not written correctly, it can be slow to load.

JavaScript

JavaScript is not Java. JavaScript is a simple programming language that was developed by Netscape that writes commands to your browser when the HTML page is loaded. Like Java, you can have compatibility issues with Java Script, especially in newer versions of Browsers.

MySQL

MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that relies on SQL for processing the data in the database. MySQL provides APIs for the languages C, C++, Java, PHP and more. MySQL is most commonly used for Web applications and for embedded applications and has become a popular alternative to proprietary database systems because of its speed and reliability. MySQL can run on UNIX, Windows and Mac OS.

PHP

PHP (short for PHP: Hypertext Processor) is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages.

RIA

RIA, or Rich Internet Applications, are web applications that have most of the characteristics of desktop applications . Rich Internet applications (RIAs) offer a rich, engaging experience that improves user satisfaction and increases productivity.

SQL

SQL is a database computer language designed for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS).

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, is the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user.

Site Placement

In search engine marketing terms, site placement is the location of a page within the search engine results page. The higher the placement, the more likely your page will be clicked on.

Unix

Unix is the original Network operating system developed in the 1960s. Unix is the most popular server software. The guts of the Internet are written in Unix.

XSL

XSL is used to refer to a family of languages used for transforming and rendering XML documents

XML

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically

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