Synthasite is a new web-based design tool that enables you and your team to collaboratively work on your website design. Synthasite is currently in limited beta. With South Africa-based Synthasite, you can work with the tools available within its service, which easily arrange text, images, badges and buttons to create a professional-looking site. There are a few items available by default, such as a YouTube video or a Flickr photo search, which can be added into your design as well... (read more)

When the OpenAjax Alliance was created Microsoft was invited, but didn’t take up the offer. They were noticeably absent from the early meetings.Well, now Bertrand Le Roy of the Atlas team will be at the meetings as the OpenAjax Alliance Welcomes Microsoft and Other New Members and Announces Interoperability Awards: “Microsoft is joining the OpenAJAX Alliance to collaborate with other industry leaders to help evolve AJAX-style development by ensuring a high degree of interoperability, ”... (read more)

Before the introduction of features in CSS3 for handling transparency of images the web design though took over in various aspects had a great limitation embedded in it. That is the print design can handle overlaying of text on a background which could either be an image or color background. This overlaying of text on background ability have the print design the ability of giving fading of text effect in the background and thereby handling the feature of transparency of images.... (read more)

Balinese temples differ slightly in their layout, but retain many similar elements. The most important part of of the pura (temple) is the jeroan (inner courtyard). The most important shrine in the jeroan is the padmasana, or Lotus Throne. Balinese Hinduism has many Gods, with many incarnations for example Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (the Creator,...(read more)

The Javanese word "batik" is translated as "good points or dots." Batik is made by creating tiny dots producing a design by using wax to resist the dyes on cloth. The most common fabric is fine cotton. Traditional Indonesian batik is created by using tree resin, insect wax, coconut oil, paraffin or old wax. The last step of the process is to remove the wax using boiling water and caustic soda. The result is reflected in the Batik Art designs shown in these pages