When to use Aggiorno?
In essence, you should consider using Aggiorno whenever you want to develop valid, accessible, and search engine aware Web Sites or want to improve an existing site by incorporating the latest best practices. We have compiled this section to give you guidance on some Web related scenarios that you might indentify with. But remember, since Aggiorno is expandable, about every task that requires any type of transformation can become a reality if you put your mind to it.
Check out some of the sample scenarios below to see if you have been in any of these situations.
You can use Aggiorno when…
You just finished typing a long article in Notepad and want to turn it into nice HTML paragraphs
Or maybe you used Word and decided to copy/paste. Or your WYSIWYG editor decided to indent using those beautiful and separate paragraphs with might <br> tags. No, your code is not semantic and accessibility suffers.
Let Aggiorno detect paragraphs - indentation and line spacing included! It will instantly replace all that HTML gibberish that's making your site harder to maintain and finally streamline your copywriting process.
You received a legacy ASP.NET site created by a madman and his tag-shuffling apprentice
Visual Studio gets confused, browsers get confused, and most importantly you get confused when facing that crazy Web Site. Dozens of errors plague Visual Studio's Error Output, making it impossible to switch to Design View and understand what all this madness is all about. An opening <p> , followed by two straight closing <div> . Did the original developer do it on purpose?
Maybe you are better off touching as little as possible, and hoping that a catastrophe does not ensue. Or maybe you can just feed this pandemonium to Aggiorno and let it do its magic. With its revolutionary pattern detection and transformation technology, Aggiorno will immediately make this legacy site feel like fresh air, fixing all tag-related errors without even touching the original indentation. No need to keep feeling the pain. Guaranteed.
You need to change the font size and color in a 100-page site filled with FONT tags
One FONT tag. Two. Twenty-one. And you are still on the very first page of your monstrous site. You try to devise some clever regular expression, but special cases keep springing up. After finishing the third page and having spent all morning, you realize the rendering has changed slightly, but you are not sure why. Computers were supposed to ease people's life. Weren’t they?
Have Aggiorno take care of all that boring stuff. Ask it to replace all deprecated tags and attributes in a whole site. Not just fonts, but also layout tag such as CENTER will be taken care of in a couple of seconds. And no rendering glitches: guaranteed!
You know how to design a page using tables, but you'd rather use CSS in the end
We have all read how just evil table-based layouts can be. But CSS-positioning can sometimes be hard to grasp. You have to choose between doing it the well known but wrong way, and spending a couple of days trying to follow some CSS tutorials on the web. And your client has just decided: job due tomorrow.
Or maybe you can use Aggiorno and kill two birds with one stone. Do it using tables, transform it instantly to CSS positioning with Aggiorno, and learn with your very own examples!
You are a not feeling particularly energetic today, and would rather not close all those tags after all
We've all been through those days. After endless hours of copywriting, you just don't want to write any more tags. Why would you need to close all those <li> if browsers swallow them as they are? Let’s not have to go back to the misadventure that is lack of compliance with Web standards.
Go for that listless day and let someone else worry about fixing those tags. Let Aggiorno analyze your site, cleverly decide where to close tags and finish that job in time and style.
You are not feeling energetic at all, and would rather not type all those quotes before and after attribute values
Quoted attributes…who needs them, right? Well, now you can indulge your laziness without having to suffer severe consequences if you make Aggiorno an integral part of your Web development cycle.
Instead of creating complex regular expressions to undo the damage to your Web Site, you can now select your file(s) and have Aggiorno automatically verify and insert quotes to those attributes that need them. Who says laziness doesn’t pay off in the end?
Your site is not being indexed by search engines and your pages are not validating
You’ve done it – you have created a dazzling Web Site with ultra efficient procedures and your client is extremely pleased with the results. A few weeks later, as you are about to pat yourself in the back to congratulate yourself on a job well done, you get an e-mail from your client calling you all kinds of names because the Web Site does not show up in Google. What do you do?
Chances are that Google has not yet indexed your Web Site; or there is something preventing Google from indexing your site. After finding it’s an invalid XHTML construct that’s causing the error, you whip out Aggiorno to easily and safely fix the mistakes. Now that the Web Site is showing up in Google, your client has stopped calling you names and you can finish that pat on your back – it’s long overdue!
You developed a plethora of sites before learning about the benefits of separating content from style using CSS, and you don't want to spend months upgrading them
The mere thought of getting rid of those <font>tags from your legacy sites makes you shiver. The amount of work to manually extract deprecated HTML elements would literally take days to accomplish. As if that weren’t enough, you need to keep track of the styles you create so you can reapply them in a similar pattern in other files…thanks, but no thanks.
Let Aggiorno bring your ASP.Net Web Sites to next level while still preserving your sanity. Aggiorno will automatically scan ASP.Net file(s) and create a CSS file (inline or on a separate file – your call) that contains corresponding CSS elements to be used in your site. Aggiorno is smart enough to automatically reapply those styles to elements with similar formatting; thus drastically reducing the size of the CSS file.
It takes you minutes to find the right <td> in that monstrous layout table
We’ve all been there as Web Developers. You have just finished your elaborate design using tables. You stare in awe at your code trying to figure out how on Earth you managed to get this horrible colspan and rowspan entropic creation to actually work. Well, who cares, right? As long as it is displayed correctly, it should not be a problem…unless…
Unless, that is, the client requests a “small change”. This change can range anywhere from moving a sliced image to another position or changing the layout so that your whole <td> mess would be in need of a complete overhaul. As you start to panic, you think to yourself “this would have not happened if I had used <divs> …curses!!!”
Luckily for you, your client’s Web Site can still be saved. By using Aggiorno, you can quickly and effortlessly transform your table mess into a maintainable <div> CSS solution. Long gone are the days of staring at your monitor trying to figure out where one <td> starts and another one ends.
Your lawyer just called you about your site not being accessible
You saw this one coming from a mile away. Now, it’s time to make sure your Web Site is accessible, and pronto. Aggiorno can assist you in making sure your Web Site accessible by carrying out the following transformations:
- Table Based Layout to CSS-positioning
- Quickly and effortlessly helping you tag the ALT attribute of all images from your Web Site