An elderly man in Miami calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are getting divorced. Forty-five years of misery is enough."
"Pop, what are you talking about?" the son screams.
"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man says. "We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her," and he hangs up.
Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone, "Like heck they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of this." She calls her father immediately and screams at the old man, "You are NOT getting divorced! Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME!?" and hangs up.
The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. "Okay," he says, "They're coming for Christmas and paying thier own airfares.
just a joke.......
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whenever it meets an obstacle.
whenever it meets an obstacle.
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Publication: APS Review Gas Market Trends
Date: Monday, August 2 1999
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It was in 1908 that a German company, Nigerian Bitumen Corp., began exploring for oil in Nigeria. It operated in the Araromi area, of the present Ondo State, 200 km east of Lagos. The company abandoned its dry, shallow wells there at the start of World War I in 1914. In 1936, Shell D'Arcy was
granted sole rights to explore for hydrocarbons all over Nigeria and prospecting began in 1937. Shell's activities were interrupted by World War II.
Less than two years after World War II ended, Shell in 1947 teamed up with British Petroleum to form a Shell-BP unit in Nigeria. The group discovered oil in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta, and production began in 1958 at the rate of 5,100 b/d which was mostly exported. The group realised later that pay zones lay below 1,500 metres. As Nigeria gained independence in 1960, a new government in Lagos limited the group's concession area and invited other companies to explore for oil. They were offered both onshore and offshore blocks.
By 1961, Mobil, Agip, Gulf Oil (now Chevron), Safrap (now Elf), Amoseas (now Texaco/Chevron), Tenneco and others had begun exploration activities both onshore and offshore. Most of them were later to be more successful in offshore areas, while the Shell group had the best onshore fields. The pace of oil discoveries picked up in the subsequent years. Eventually, however, BP left Nigeria and Shell teamed up with other companies (see profiles in Part 2). BP returned to Nigeria 15 years later, in 1993, and signed with Statoil for PSAs to explore deep-water prospects (see above).
A former colony, then a British protectorate from 1914, Nigeria gained its independence from Britain on Oct. 1, 1960. But the Eastern Region seceded on May 30, 1967, leading to a civil war. The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra was crushed in early 1970. In 1971, as oil became more important to the economy, the state established the Nigerian National Oil Corp. (NNOC) and joined OPEC as the 11th member. It acquired 33 1/3% in Nigerian Agip and 35% in Elf. NNOC ran as an upstream and downstream company and the petroleum ministry had a regulatory function. On April 1, 1977, a merger between NNOC and the ministry created Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC). This was to combine the ministry's regulatory role and NNOC's commercial functions: exploration, production, transportation, processing, oil refining and marketing.
The regulatory role was later to be assumed by the Petroleum Inspectorate, a unit of NNPC. But decision makers at NNPC have changed frequently as there have been seven military coups from 1960 to Gen. Abacha's takeover in November 1993, with the only civilian regimes being the Second Republic in 1979-83 and the current one since May 29, 1999. In particular after 1972, every new military ruler wanted to control the oil sector and NNPC's management was affected in one way or another.
Through the years, NNPC has been active in seismic exploration onshore and offshore. Its seismic crew, known as Party X, has made several discoveries such as a field in block OPL-110 in the Niger Delta, the Oredo field, etc. It also carried out work on contract for Phillips Petroleum and other E&P companies in the Chad, Anambra and Benue Basins. But NNPC has depended on the technological capabilities of the major operators, like Shell, Mobil, Gulf (Chevron) and others, which produced the bulk of Nigerian oil and did most of the exploration work.
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granted sole rights to explore for hydrocarbons all over Nigeria and prospecting began in 1937. Shell's activities were interrupted by World War II.
Less than two years after World War II ended, Shell in 1947 teamed up with British Petroleum to form a Shell-BP unit in Nigeria. The group discovered oil in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta, and production began in 1958 at the rate of 5,100 b/d which was mostly exported. The group realised later that pay zones lay below 1,500 metres. As Nigeria gained independence in 1960, a new government in Lagos limited the group's concession area and invited other companies to explore for oil. They were offered both onshore and offshore blocks.
By 1961, Mobil, Agip, Gulf Oil (now Chevron), Safrap (now Elf), Amoseas (now Texaco/Chevron), Tenneco and others had begun exploration activities both onshore and offshore. Most of them were later to be more successful in offshore areas, while the Shell group had the best onshore fields. The pace of oil discoveries picked up in the subsequent years. Eventually, however, BP left Nigeria and Shell teamed up with other companies (see profiles in Part 2). BP returned to Nigeria 15 years later, in 1993, and signed with Statoil for PSAs to explore deep-water prospects (see above).
A former colony, then a British protectorate from 1914, Nigeria gained its independence from Britain on Oct. 1, 1960. But the Eastern Region seceded on May 30, 1967, leading to a civil war. The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra was crushed in early 1970. In 1971, as oil became more important to the economy, the state established the Nigerian National Oil Corp. (NNOC) and joined OPEC as the 11th member. It acquired 33 1/3% in Nigerian Agip and 35% in Elf. NNOC ran as an upstream and downstream company and the petroleum ministry had a regulatory function. On April 1, 1977, a merger between NNOC and the ministry created Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC). This was to combine the ministry's regulatory role and NNOC's commercial functions: exploration, production, transportation, processing, oil refining and marketing.
The regulatory role was later to be assumed by the Petroleum Inspectorate, a unit of NNPC. But decision makers at NNPC have changed frequently as there have been seven military coups from 1960 to Gen. Abacha's takeover in November 1993, with the only civilian regimes being the Second Republic in 1979-83 and the current one since May 29, 1999. In particular after 1972, every new military ruler wanted to control the oil sector and NNPC's management was affected in one way or another.
Through the years, NNPC has been active in seismic exploration onshore and offshore. Its seismic crew, known as Party X, has made several discoveries such as a field in block OPL-110 in the Niger Delta, the Oredo field, etc. It also carried out work on contract for Phillips Petroleum and other E&P companies in the Chad, Anambra and Benue Basins. But NNPC has depended on the technological capabilities of the major operators, like Shell, Mobil, Gulf (Chevron) and others, which produced the bulk of Nigerian oil and did most of the exploration work.
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It was in 1908 that a German company, Nigerian Bitumen Corp., began exploring for oil in Nigeria. It operated in the Araromi area, of the present Ondo State, 200 km east of Lagos. The company abandoned its dry, shallow wells there at the start of World War I in 1914. In 1936, Shell D'Arcy was
granted sole rights to explore for hydrocarbons all over Nigeria and prospecting began in 1937. Shell's activities were interrupted by World War II.
Less than two years after World War II ended, Shell in 1947 teamed up with British Petroleum to form a Shell-BP unit in Nigeria. The group discovered oil in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta, and production began in 1958 at the rate of 5,100 b/d which was mostly exported. The group realised later that pay zones lay below 1,500 metres. As Nigeria gained independence in 1960, a new government in Lagos limited the group's concession area and invited other companies to explore for oil. They were offered both onshore and offshore blocks.
By 1961, Mobil, Agip, Gulf Oil (now Chevron), Safrap (now Elf), Amoseas (now Texaco/Chevron), Tenneco and others had begun exploration activities both onshore and offshore. Most of them were later to be more successful in offshore areas, while the Shell group had the best onshore fields. The pace of oil discoveries picked up in the subsequent years. Eventually, however, BP left Nigeria and Shell teamed up with other companies (see profiles in Part 2). BP returned to Nigeria 15 years later, in 1993, and signed with Statoil for PSAs to explore deep-water prospects (see above).
A former colony, then a British protectorate from 1914, Nigeria gained its independence from Britain on Oct. 1, 1960. But the Eastern Region seceded on May 30, 1967, leading to a civil war. The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra was crushed in early 1970. In 1971, as oil became more important to the economy, the state established the Nigerian National Oil Corp. (NNOC) and joined OPEC as the 11th member. It acquired 33 1/3% in Nigerian Agip and 35% in Elf. NNOC ran as an upstream and downstream company and the petroleum ministry had a regulatory function. On April 1, 1977, a merger between NNOC and the ministry created Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC). This was to combine the ministry's regulatory role and NNOC's commercial functions: exploration, production, transportation, processing, oil refining and marketing.
The regulatory role was later to be assumed by the Petroleum Inspectorate, a unit of NNPC. But decision makers at NNPC have changed frequently as there have been seven military coups from 1960 to Gen. Abacha's takeover in November 1993, with the only civilian regimes being the Second Republic in 1979-83 and the current one since May 29, 1999. In particular after 1972, every new military ruler wanted to control the oil sector and NNPC's management was affected in one way or another.
Through the years, NNPC has been active in seismic exploration onshore and offshore. Its seismic crew, known as Party X, has made several discoveries such as a field in block OPL-110 in the Niger Delta, the Oredo field, etc. It also carried out work on contract for Phillips Petroleum and other E&P companies in the Chad, Anambra and Benue Basins. But NNPC has depended on the technological capabilities of the major operators, like Shell, Mobil, Gulf (Chevron) and others, which produced the bulk of Nigerian oil and did most of the exploration work.
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NIGERIA - Exploration History.
Publication: APS Review Gas Market Trends
Date: Monday, August 2 1999
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It was in 1908 that a German company, Nigerian Bitumen Corp., began exploring for oil in Nigeria. It operated in the Araromi area, of the present Ondo State, 200 km east of Lagos. The company abandoned its dry, shallow wells there at the start of World War I in 1914. In 1936, Shell D'Arcy was
granted sole rights to explore for hydrocarbons all over Nigeria and prospecting began in 1937. Shell's activities were interrupted by World War II.
Less than two years after World War II ended, Shell in 1947 teamed up with British Petroleum to form a Shell-BP unit in Nigeria. The group discovered oil in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta, and production began in 1958 at the rate of 5,100 b/d which was mostly exported. The group realised later that pay zones lay below 1,500 metres. As Nigeria gained independence in 1960, a new government in Lagos limited the group's concession area and invited other companies to explore for oil. They were offered both onshore and offshore blocks.
By 1961, Mobil, Agip, Gulf Oil (now Chevron), Safrap (now Elf), Amoseas (now Texaco/Chevron), Tenneco and others had begun exploration activities both onshore and offshore. Most of them were later to be more successful in offshore areas, while the Shell group had the best onshore fields. The pace of oil discoveries picked up in the subsequent years. Eventually, however, BP left Nigeria and Shell teamed up with other companies (see profiles in Part 2). BP returned to Nigeria 15 years later, in 1993, and signed with Statoil for PSAs to explore deep-water prospects (see above).
A former colony, then a British protectorate from 1914, Nigeria gained its independence from Britain on Oct. 1, 1960. But the Eastern Region seceded on May 30, 1967, leading to a civil war. The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra was crushed in early 1970. In 1971, as oil became more important to the economy, the state established the Nigerian National Oil Corp. (NNOC) and joined OPEC as the 11th member. It acquired 33 1/3% in Nigerian Agip and 35% in Elf. NNOC ran as an upstream and downstream company and the petroleum ministry had a regulatory function. On April 1, 1977, a merger between NNOC and the ministry created Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC). This was to combine the ministry's regulatory role and NNOC's commercial functions: exploration, production, transportation, processing, oil refining and marketing.
The regulatory role was later to be assumed by the Petroleum Inspectorate, a unit of NNPC. But decision makers at NNPC have changed frequently as there have been seven military coups from 1960 to Gen. Abacha's takeover in November 1993, with the only civilian regimes being the Second Republic in 1979-83 and the current one since May 29, 1999. In particular after 1972, every new military ruler wanted to control the oil sector and NNPC's management was affected in one way or another.
Through the years, NNPC has been active in seismic exploration onshore and offshore. Its seismic crew, known as Party X, has made several discoveries such as a field in block OPL-110 in the Niger Delta, the Oredo field, etc. It also carried out work on contract for Phillips Petroleum and other E&P companies in the Chad, Anambra and Benue Basins. But NNPC has depended on the technological capabilities of the major operators, like Shell, Mobil, Gulf (Chevron) and others, which produced the bulk of Nigerian oil and did most of the exploration work.
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FROM THE DEPTH OF MY HEART....
A Special World
A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.
Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.
And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.
A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.
Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.
And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.
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Arsenal chairman Hill-Wood would welcome Kroenke takeover
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10 Steps to Create a High-Quality Website
on the, oct 16 2009.
This entry is filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, Marketing, Design.
A valuable offer of information does not fall from the sky and it is impossible to gather it in a few easy clicks. No. What you need are goals, content, structure, design, programming and maintenance. What you need is expertise – constantly. This article outlines – without attempting to be comprehensive – the ten most important steps to create a good website. A checklist to be collected and shared.
Index
Commitment
Planning
Information Architecture
Design
Programming
Quality Assurance
Public Relations
Success Control
Maintenance
Quality Assurance
Commitment
If you don’t sincerely want to create a website and don’t intend to maintain it: Please don’t even start.
A high-quality website requires a lot of commitment and effort. Good content requires a lot of commitment and effort. Your users and visitors demand commitment and effort. A website can be compared to a pet – think about whether you really want one before you get one. (But you are right, pets that are not treated well certainly hurt much more.)
Planning
So you have decided that you really want a website and that this website should really be of an acceptable standard. What you need to do now is a plan:
What is the goal of your website?
What is the target audience of your website?
What content do you intend to offer?
Which key data and metrics will you use to determine your success? (Determine your key performance indicators.)
If you are unsure about how to answer some of these questions, if you are in any doubts or even fail to find an answer to one of the questions, you probably need a break. Or you could try to seek for help regarding your decisions. Your website won’t mind the wait.
Information Architecture
After the planning phase has been completed, don’t immediately start designing and implementing: First, you need to create, test, verify, and reconsider the structure and architecture of your site. To do this, read a good book about information architecture, look at a few heuristics and have at least 15 users do some card-sorting. Even at this early stage, don’t forget to keep an eye on localization and internationalization. Document the structure you have elaborated and validate it – by testing it while you are designing the website.
Design
Hurray, Design. Important:
Design is a set of fields for problem-solving that uses user-centric approaches to understand user needs (as well as business, economic, environmental, social, and other requirements) to create successful solutions that solve real problems. Design is often used as a process to create real change within a system or market. Too often, Design is defined only as visual problem solving or communication because of the predominance of graphic designers. In other fields and contexts, Design might only refer to Fashion Design or Interior Design. However, a recognition of the similarities between all design disciplines shows that the larger definition for Design operates at a higher level and across many media
Consider a few additional points before you start the design process:
It doesn’t hurt to have a look at a few principles, whether specific ones by Tufte or Tognazzini or abstract ones like the golden ratio or wabi-sabi.
It is essential to keep accessibility in mind, even during the design phase. It is easy to address color blindness, photosensitive epilepsy or sufficient contrast during this stage.
Test your drafts (don’t wait until the final version). Carry out tests, whether with five users, with more than five because that’s not enough, with n users, just as long as it is cheap, or with none because you place your trust in experts. Test and read through basic rules about usability.
Be creative, but not “without control!”
Programming
After completing the design process, which should have led to a well operating design, you can now start the implementation. (It is, however, possible, that you start this at an earlier stage already.) In addition to environment (server) and dynamics (script languages), you need to consider the following points:
Choose a suitable document type for your documents. If in any doubt, be inspired by Jeffrey Zeldman or Eric Meyer. If this doesn’t help you – just use any valid document type.
Use HTML elements according to their semantics.
Write structured code and get used to coding guidelines. This is particularly important if more than one person are working on the project.
Validate. Everything. Consider it as a taboo to publish documents and style sheets that haven’t been validated.
Whatever you do, always keep accessibility in mind. Accessibility heuristics can be useful, but unfortunately they are not comprehensive.
Quality Assurance
After having worked out an elaborate, high-quality information offer on the basis of the aforementioned points, you should still absolutely and definitely carry out Quality Assurance (QA). The launch of your offer is part of this phase, ideally after a final QA. It may be possible to launch your website immediately after having carried out the QA, but only if you have focused on quality from the beginning.
Control and optimize the following:
Technical validity and compliance of all resources.
Accessibility, ideally with the help of real users, but automated tests can be useful as well.
Links. Linkrot has never been fashionable.
Load time.
Just about everything. Your website should stand for quality and value-added user experience. Make sure that you’ve got it.
Public Relations
Market your website without feeling guilty. Your HTML should already be suitable for search engines (semantics and accessibility). Use a moderate link strategy from this point on and perform conventional Public Relations (PR). I know, this is easy to be said, but it has to be done. Furthermore, don’t get upset if your website doesn’t have great success from the very beginning, such as ten times more users accessing the site – plan on a long-term basis.
Success Control
Make sure that the “key performance indicators” (KPI) you determined at the beginning are measured. If your existing statistics don’t determine these numbers, ensure that they do. There are some useful statistics tools: A few good ones are free of charge (Google Analytics), only fractionally more good inexpensive ones (Mint), and a handful of good expensive ones (WebSideStory). Use these metrics to evaluate the development and the success of your offer.
This hint unfortunately won’t be of much use if you have never before had a good look at web analytics. It is time to do this now.
Maintenance
Maintain your website. Update your website. Look after your website. Add new content on a regular basis. Furthermore, check old content. You need to proofread new and old content. Never cease to question your offer. At the end of the day, it is once more all about …
Quality Assurance
That’s right, quality assurance is a process. Keep validating, checking, and testing your documents, contents, and design … again and again.
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10 Steps to Create a High-Quality Website
on the, oct 16 2009.
This entry is filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, Marketing, Design.
A valuable offer of information does not fall from the sky and it is impossible to gather it in a few easy clicks. No. What you need are goals, content, structure, design, programming and maintenance. What you need is expertise – constantly. This article outlines – without attempting to be comprehensive – the ten most important steps to create a good website. A checklist to be collected and shared.
Index
Commitment
Planning
Information Architecture
Design
Programming
Quality Assurance
Public Relations
Success Control
Maintenance
Quality Assurance
Commitment
If you don’t sincerely want to create a website and don’t intend to maintain it: Please don’t even start.
A high-quality website requires a lot of commitment and effort. Good content requires a lot of commitment and effort. Your users and visitors demand commitment and effort. A website can be compared to a pet – think about whether you really want one before you get one. (But you are right, pets that are not treated well certainly hurt much more.)
Planning
So you have decided that you really want a website and that this website should really be of an acceptable standard. What you need to do now is a plan:
What is the goal of your website?
What is the target audience of your website?
What content do you intend to offer?
Which key data and metrics will you use to determine your success? (Determine your key performance indicators.)
If you are unsure about how to answer some of these questions, if you are in any doubts or even fail to find an answer to one of the questions, you probably need a break. Or you could try to seek for help regarding your decisions. Your website won’t mind the wait.
Information Architecture
After the planning phase has been completed, don’t immediately start designing and implementing: First, you need to create, test, verify, and reconsider the structure and architecture of your site. To do this, read a good book about information architecture, look at a few heuristics and have at least 15 users do some card-sorting. Even at this early stage, don’t forget to keep an eye on localization and internationalization. Document the structure you have elaborated and validate it – by testing it while you are designing the website.
Design
Hurray, Design. Important:
Design is a set of fields for problem-solving that uses user-centric approaches to understand user needs (as well as business, economic, environmental, social, and other requirements) to create successful solutions that solve real problems. Design is often used as a process to create real change within a system or market. Too often, Design is defined only as visual problem solving or communication because of the predominance of graphic designers. In other fields and contexts, Design might only refer to Fashion Design or Interior Design. However, a recognition of the similarities between all design disciplines shows that the larger definition for Design operates at a higher level and across many media
Consider a few additional points before you start the design process:
It doesn’t hurt to have a look at a few principles, whether specific ones by Tufte or Tognazzini or abstract ones like the golden ratio or wabi-sabi.
It is essential to keep accessibility in mind, even during the design phase. It is easy to address color blindness, photosensitive epilepsy or sufficient contrast during this stage.
Test your drafts (don’t wait until the final version). Carry out tests, whether with five users, with more than five because that’s not enough, with n users, just as long as it is cheap, or with none because you place your trust in experts. Test and read through basic rules about usability.
Be creative, but not “without control!”
Programming
After completing the design process, which should have led to a well operating design, you can now start the implementation. (It is, however, possible, that you start this at an earlier stage already.) In addition to environment (server) and dynamics (script languages), you need to consider the following points:
Choose a suitable document type for your documents. If in any doubt, be inspired by Jeffrey Zeldman or Eric Meyer. If this doesn’t help you – just use any valid document type.
Use HTML elements according to their semantics.
Write structured code and get used to coding guidelines. This is particularly important if more than one person are working on the project.
Validate. Everything. Consider it as a taboo to publish documents and style sheets that haven’t been validated.
Whatever you do, always keep accessibility in mind. Accessibility heuristics can be useful, but unfortunately they are not comprehensive.
Quality Assurance
After having worked out an elaborate, high-quality information offer on the basis of the aforementioned points, you should still absolutely and definitely carry out Quality Assurance (QA). The launch of your offer is part of this phase, ideally after a final QA. It may be possible to launch your website immediately after having carried out the QA, but only if you have focused on quality from the beginning.
Control and optimize the following:
Technical validity and compliance of all resources.
Accessibility, ideally with the help of real users, but automated tests can be useful as well.
Links. Linkrot has never been fashionable.
Load time.
Just about everything. Your website should stand for quality and value-added user experience. Make sure that you’ve got it.
Public Relations
Market your website without feeling guilty. Your HTML should already be suitable for search engines (semantics and accessibility). Use a moderate link strategy from this point on and perform conventional Public Relations (PR). I know, this is easy to be said, but it has to be done. Furthermore, don’t get upset if your website doesn’t have great success from the very beginning, such as ten times more users accessing the site – plan on a long-term basis.
Success Control
Make sure that the “key performance indicators” (KPI) you determined at the beginning are measured. If your existing statistics don’t determine these numbers, ensure that they do. There are some useful statistics tools: A few good ones are free of charge (Google Analytics), only fractionally more good inexpensive ones (Mint), and a handful of good expensive ones (WebSideStory). Use these metrics to evaluate the development and the success of your offer.
This hint unfortunately won’t be of much use if you have never before had a good look at web analytics. It is time to do this now.
Maintenance
Maintain your website. Update your website. Look after your website. Add new content on a regular basis. Furthermore, check old content. You need to proofread new and old content. Never cease to question your offer. At the end of the day, it is once more all about …
Quality Assurance
That’s right, quality assurance is a process. Keep validating, checking, and testing your documents, contents, and design … again and again.
Read More
Enjoy the most popular posts, probably including:
On Updating a Book (Webdesign mit CSS, 2nd Edition)
Principles of Art, Design, and Decoration.............
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