Introducing new domain name extension

New Domain Name Extension

There is a new Internet address to India in the month of June.

India's largest distributer Directi Group in the domain name. IN.NET Internet address of the new introduced. This means that posty.in or posty.com that registration can register posty.in.net instead.

india is in 3rd place for using internet in most of countries in the world. In India alone, there are approximately 3 million domain name and Internet address is in use.

.IN.NET address those wishing to make reservations can arrive on June 18. On August 1 shoppers for the first time that the first party to register the domain name.

Directi Group, said the company,

65 per cent of customers did not get their favorite domain name has been revealed by the information we collected. So they have been using the domain name. All the Indians to use their favorite name is bought at a low price is our goal.

New Domain Name extension introductory offer : .IN.NET    525/year from July 17th, 2013

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Web Design Strategies

1. Keep it simple.

    The business web site is there for the customer. Keep your customer in mind at all times. Don't become so

enchanted with showcasing your company that you lose sight of the reason your visitor came to your site. If you lose him once, you are not likely to get him back for a second chance.

2. Update often.

    Good web sites have changing content and changing design. If your site looks like it has not been updated

lately, can your customer actually depend on the information he finds there? Well designed web sites allow for easy updating within the structure of the site. The best designs offer a dynamic site which has something different each time the visitor returns. Talk to your designer about options for automating your web site content.

3. Provide relevant content.

Do not assume that your visitor is interested in your company history, employee roster, personnel photos. Give him something worth reading in an interesting format and he will return to your site and recommend it to others. The most visited web sites are those which offer unique content and easy access to information the visitor cannot find elsewhere.

4. Look professional.

Many companies try to save on their web sites by designing and maintaining them "in-house". These offices often end up spending more on creating and maintaining their web site than if they had hired an outside consultant. What often happens is that employees have other responsibilities which must be balanced with the 

web site, and when time is tight, the web site is the project which gets put aside for later or given to another employee to finish. Remember that your web site has the potential to reach thousands of customers every day. Be sure it is leaving the right impression.

5. Use quality graphics.

Just as you would not decorate your customer lobby or the front of your offices with clip art, you should not use these images in your web site. Quality photographs and graphics are an essential part of your professional design. Good professional photography and graphics enhance your web site and keep your visitor exploring longer.

6. Use quality fonts.

Too many web sites can be found which use fonts more appropriate for greeting cards than for business. Keep your web site clean and professional with one font and add interest by changing sizes and weights. Resist the urge to scatter fonts creatively throughout the web site.

7. All computers were not created equal. - Remember that colors will vary wildly from computer to computer. There is no way to control the exact appearance of colors across the web. Therefore, don't spend a lot of time trying to match your letterhead or logo.

8. The web is not print.

This may seem like an obvious statement, but it is important to remember that printed materials cannot just be scanned to your web site. Printed materials must be reformatted for use on the web. It is not always practical to try to reproduce your existing printed materials for web site use. Let your designer guide you to find the right balance between good web design and consistent image for your business materials.

9. Spell check everything.

Errors and typos always seem to find their way into web sites. You can reduce the number of errors on your site and the time necessary to correct them by using the spell check function for any text files you send.

10. Download time matters.

The average visitor will wait 4 to 6 seconds for a page to download. It is important that your web site have something for your customer within that time or you may lose him forever. Keep your web site pages to a size which can be downloaded quickly. There are still plenty of potential customers out there using dial up modem to connect to the Internet.

11. Use animation sparingly.

The use of FLASH animation can dramatically increase a Webster's interest without increasing the download

time significantly. However, too much animation can compete for the visitors attention and actually drive away traffic. Integrate your animated elements into the design concept and let them support your information rather than competing for attention.

12. Make your site unique.

There are thousand upon thousands of web sites out there today. Most of them look very much the same. Do not design your site with a template which will make your web site just like all of the others. Keep your design memorable, but professional.

13. Navigation is the key.

You have probably been to one of those sites which makes it hard to find the information you are seeking. Clear navigation is important. Your site should allow the visitor to clearly choose his options and to get back to the beginning without difficulty. Good navigation is an important key to successful web site design.

14. Get your money's worth!

Listen to your professional designer - After all, that is what you are paying for! If you have chosen your design firm well, then they will know their business - just as you know yours. Too many cooks spoil the broth - and the web site, too! Of course you should be involved in guiding the direction of your new web site, but let your designer give you the benefit of his expertise in the field.

Important Marketing Tips

       Important Marketing Tips

       In working with small businesses to promote their web sites, we have learned that many businesses need help in marketing. Here are the most important tips we have gathered to help you get the most out of your marketing dollar.

1. What are your competitors up to ?

     Do an Internet search in Google and Yahoo for the item or service you plan to sell. Find out how much your competition is charging and how they are marketing the product. Try to narrow down which businesses will be your direct competition

2. Will anyone buy ?

    Not every product or service is right for Internet sales. In our experience, unique products, hard to find services and name brand products are the best candidates for Internet sales. Look at your potential products and ask yourself - "Would I purchase this product on the Internet?"

3. Why come to this web site ?

     No matter how good your advertising campaign, your web site needs valuable content to survive in the Internet. Create content that is useful, informative, educational or entertaining and you will create a market for your product. 

Some ideas for attracting repeat customers are:

• Provide regular, fresh content: If visitors come back a couple of times and nothing has changed, they will lose interest and probably won't ever come back.
• Create "Web Site Only" offers.
• Put technical documentation online. Manuals and instructions can be easily lost. Make copies of them online. Customers who come to find the technical documentation they need will, in the process, be exposed to your latest products and services.
• Use "e-mail this page" links to help make sharing information and specials from your site easy. Pages sent this way, not only further your message, they actually have the endorsement of the person sending the page.
• Use "print-friendly pages" to encourage people to print out your information for later reference.
• Create a link sharing program. Make a page on your site full of external links to on topic sources of further and complimentary information. When you've done that, go through those sites and send a short, polite request to each of them that they add you to their list of links. Don't worry if they don't want to link to you, and certainly don't remove them from your list -- this is a nice way to add value to your site and demonstrates a certain degree of authority on a given subject.
• Send a newsletter: The most efficient means of keeping in touch with clients is a brief newsletter sent by e-mail. Tell customers and prospects about the new services and products you are offering, staff changes, successes, books your recommend, customer testimonials or successes with your product, and links to articles of interest.

4. Am I unique ?

        The Internet is a crowded marketplace. The more unique your product or service, the more likely your success.

Basic economics tells us two things:

• The more unique your product, then less competition you will have.
• The less competition you have, the less price becomes an issue.

       Finding your niche means limiting your target audience, of course, but it does mean that people coming to your site are more likely to purchase your product. If you are planning a new online business, find a specialized market...if you already have a web site business, consider narrowing your online focus or create several different web sites to market your various products.

5. What's my first impression ?

     Your business web site is your chance to beat the competition and wow your potential client. Show them what you can do and why they should choose your business over the competition. Aim for a crisp, clean design that emphasizes your professionalism and skill. Give your potential clients as the information they are seeking in a format that is easy to navigate. Remember - your web site is likely to be your first point of contact with the customer. If you lose him now, you will not get him back.

6. Am I getting their attention ?

    Promotional gifts can help get your company name and information out to your audience. The advantage of these items over traditional business cards is that they're more likely to be kept, plus your contact/business

information generally remains on open view, as opposed to being in a wallet, purse or filing system somewhere. Aim for something people will keep or for something they will share. One of our most popular items is a nicely printed postcard with an interesting or funny cover which you can let your customers take for free....getting your name and information out to people who have never even been to your place of business.

7. What is my corporate id ?

     The establishment of a brand is a key factor in any business's promotional activities. Create a corporate image for your company, and incorporate it into your letterhead and all other documents as well as your web site. The key to a strong brand is consistency, so make sure your logo appears on every page, preferably in the top left corner. If you use your brand name or slogan often throughout the site, make sure you do it the same way every time, as this signals to users that it's a title. Any literature you send in relation to your business should also follow form:

• If you send e-mails, ensure you sign them with the company slogan.
• If you send invoices, have the logo in the left corner.
• Design an attractive business card and include your web site address.
• Letterhead
• Receipts
• Warranties
• Packaging
• Promotional Items, such as caps, T-shirts, coffee mugs, pens
• Yellow pages and legitimate business directories
• Leaflets
• Posters and billboards
• Newspapers and magazines
• Storefront Windows

8. Can this be true ?

    Research any "opportunity" that comes your way and get referrals or recommendations before you buy. Things to investigate carefully include:

• Directories: Check to be sure that the directory actually exists and investigate the audience profile and distribution before you buy.
• Keyword sales: "We can sell you exclusive rights to 'your keyword' across the Internet." Before you buy, get names, phone numbers, physical addresses and references. No one can sell you keywords across the Internet.
• E-mail addresses for sale. Beware of participating in SPAM. Unsolicited e-mail is fast becoming a target of legislation which can ruin your ability to do business on the Internet.

9. Have they heard ? 

     Use e-mail, phone, word of mouth and even regular mail to let everyone know about your new site, it's special features and how easy it is to reach you on the Internet. Here are some suggestions which often get overlooked:

• Staff e-mail accounts: Be sure that everyone has an @yourcompany.com e-mail address an uses it.
• Encourage your employees to use their business accounts and make them available on your web site.
• Encourage your customers to contact you through e-mail at your company address.
• Ensure that the e-mail addresses are checked regularly -- at least three times a day for most businesses. Not having their e-mail answered will make your customers feel unloved, and will inevitably result in lost business.
• Create a standard company signature: Use your e-mail program to make sure that every e-mail sent from your company address has an official address no more than four lines long which contains useful information such as name,position, telephone,fax, and of course, the URL of the company web site.
• Use Auto- Responders: An automated response may come from a machine, but research shows that customers feel that they will get better response from those companies using auto responders than for those that do not
• Keep useful URLs handy: Keep a list of useful URLs from your web site at the front desk. When customers ask for information on a specific topic, give them the URL which has the information they are requesting...and better still, e-mail them the link.
• On hold message: Include information about what is available on your web site on your telephone hold system.
• Create a weekly or monthly promotion that is only to be found on your web site. This gives you a reason to tell people about your site when they call and will expose them to all of your services when they visit your site.

Flash in Web designing

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (formerly called "Macromedia Flash") is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring of vector graphics, animation, games and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) which can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages, although usage of Flash on websites is declining.

Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It allows bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera. Flash applications and animations can be programmed using the object-oriented language called Action Script. Adobe Flash Professional is the most popular and user-friendly authoring tool for creating the Flash content, which also allows automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL).

Adobe Flash Player makes the Flash content accessible on various computer systems and devices and is available free of charge for common web browsers (as a plug-in) under a few of the major operating systems, some smart phones and tablets, and a few other electronic devices using Flash Lite.

Flash Video

Main article: Flash Video

Virtually all browser plugins for video are free of charge and cross-platform, including Adobe's offering of Flash Video, which was first introduced with Flash version 6. Flash Video has been a popular choice for websites due to the large installed user base and programmability of Flash. In 2010, Apple publicly criticized Adobe Flash, including its implementation of video playback for not taking advantage of hardware acceleration, one reason Flash is not to be found on Apple's mobile devices. Soon after Apple's criticism, Adobe demoed and released a beta version of Flash 10.1, which takes advantage of GPU hardware acceleration even on a Mac. Flash 10.2 beta released December 2010, adds hardware acceleration for the whole video rendering pipeline.

Flash in Web designing

Scripting language

Further information: Action Script

Action Script is the programming language used by Flash. It is an enhanced superset of the ECMA Script programming language, with a classical Java-style class model, rather than JavaScript's prototype model.

HTML5

Main article: Comparison of HTML5 and Flash

HTML5 is often cited as an alternative to Adobe Flash technology usage on web pages. Adobe released a tool that converts Flash to HTML5, and Google also released an experimental tool that does the same.

Shum way is an open source Flash Player released by Mozilla in November 2012. It is built in JavaScript and is thus compatible with modern web-browsers.

Tools

Main article: Comparison of vector graphics editors

Commercial software packages that can create SWF files include Toon Boom, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Vectorian Giotto, CelAction2D, Toufee, KoolMoves, Express Animator, Alligator Flash Designer, Amara Web and Anime Studio. These applications provide additional capabilities for creating cartoons, especially with tools more tailored to traditionally trained animators, as well as additional rigging for characters, which can speed up character animation considerably. Additionally, there are programs available which translate 3D information into 2D vectors for display in Flash Player.

Several third-party tools are able to use and generate SWF files, and some tools such as Irfan View are capable of rendering SWF files, through the use of Flash Player. Flash Player cannot ship as part of a pure open source, or completely free operating system, as its distribution is bound to the Macromedia Licensing Program and subject to proposition first from Adobe. [Citation needed] There is no complete free and open source software replacement which offers all the functionality of the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

Open-source Flash content creation software includes Ajax Animator, Clash, Open Office Impress, KToon, Salasaga, and Synfig.

Players

Gnash is an active project that aims to create a software player and browser plugins replacement for the Adobe Flash Player. Despite potential patent worries because of the proprietary nature of the files involved, Gnash provides most SWFv7 features but does not fully support SWF v7, SWF v8-files, or the '9'th generation. Gnash runs on Windows, Linux and other platforms for the 32-bit, 64-bit, and other operating systems.

Swfdec is an open-source alternative standalone flash player available for the Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Lightspark is a free and open source SWF player. It implements the latest Action Script 3.

Scale form GFx is a commercial alternative Flash player that features full hardware acceleration using the GPU and has high conformance with both Flash 10ActionScript 3.[99] and Flash 8 AS2. Scaleform GFx is a game development middleware solution that helps create graphical user interfaces or HUDs within 3D video games.

Compilers

Swfc is an open-source Action Script 3.0 compiler which generates SWF files from script files, which includes SVG tags. It is currently the most complete alternative for building Flash content in Linux, despite being entirely script-based and not having a GUI.

The Ming library is able to import and export graphics from XML into SWF. Ming has bindings for popular scripting languages such as PHP and Python.

Flash 4 Linux

The Flash 4 Linux project was an initiative to develop an open source Linux application as an alternative to Adobe Flash Professional. Development plans included authoring capacity for 2D animation, and tweening, as well as outputting SWF file formats. F4L evolved into an editor that was capable of authoring 2D animation and publishing of SWF files. Flash 4 Linux was renamed UIRA. UIRA intended to combine the resources and knowledge of the F4L project and the Qflash project, both of which were Open Source applications that provided (to some extent) an alternative to the proprietary Adobe Flash. UIRA was free software, but was never truly completed. It reached a stage of being no more than a shell of a UI with limited functionality. Due in part to the adoption of theDADVSI law in France, the UIRA project was shut down in January 2008, according to the project's page in Source Forge.

Types of web designs

Types of web designs

     

  

Websites can be divided into two broad categories - static and interactive. Interactive sites are part of the Web 2.0 community of sites, and allow for interactivity between the site owner and site visitors. Static sites serve or capture information but do not allow engagement with the audience directly.

There are many varieties of websites, each specializing in a particular type of content or use, and they may be arbitrarily classified in any number of ways. A few such classifications might include:

Type of Website	Description	Examples
Blog (web log)	Sites generally used to post online diaries which may include discussion forums (e.g., blogger, Xanga). Many bloggers use blogs like an editorial section of a newspaper to express their ideas on anything ranging from politics to religion to video games to parenting, along with anything in between. Some bloggers are professional bloggers and they are paid to blog about a certain subject, and they are usually found on news sites.	WordPress
Brand building site	A site with the purpose of creating an experience of a brand online. These sites usually do not sell anything, but focus on building the brand. Brand building sites are most common for low-value, high-volume fast moving consumer goods (FMCG).
Celebrity website	A website whose information revolves around a celebrity. This sites can be official (endorsed by the celebrity) or fan made (run by his/her fan, fans, without implicit endorsement).	jimcarrey.com
Click-to-donate site	A website that allows the visitor to donate to charity simply by clicking on a   button or answering a question correctly. An advertiser usually donates to the charity for each correct answer generated.	The Hunger Site, Freerice, Ripple (charitable organization)
Community site	A site where persons with similar interests communicate with each other, usually by chat or message boards.	MySpace, Facebook,
Content site	Sites whose business is the creation and distribution of original content	(e.g., Slate, About.com).
Classified Ads site	Sites publishing classified advertisements	gumtree.com
Electronic commerce(e-commerce) site	A site offering goods and services for online sale and enabling online transactions for such sales.
Forum website	A site where people discuss various topics.
Gallery Website	A website designed specifically for use as a Gallery, these may be an art gallery or photo gallery and of commercial or non-commercial nature.
Government Site	A website made by the local, state, department or national government of a   country. Usually these sites also operate websites that are intended to inform tourists or support tourism.	For example, Richmond.com is the geodomain forRichmond, Virginia.
Gaming website	A site that lets users play online games. Some enable people to gamble online.
Gambling website
Match Making or Matrimonial site	A Site has information of Bride and Groom. It use to find the perfect match for boy  or girl	Allmatrimony.com, Shaadi.com
Media sharing site	A site that enables users to upload and view media such as pictures, music, and videos	Flickr, YouTube, Google Videos
News site	Similar to information site, but dedicated to dispensing news, politics, and commentary.	cnn.com
Personal website	Websites about an individual or a small group (such as a family) that contains information or any content that the individual wishes to include. Such a personal website is different from a Celebrity website, which can be very expensive and run by a publicist or agency.
Political site	A site on which people may voice political views, show political humor, campaigning for elections, or show information about a certain political party or ideology.
Question and Answer (Q&A) Site	Answer site is a site where people can ask questions & get answers.	Yahoo! Answers, Stack Exchange Network(including Stack Overflow)
School site	a site on which teachers, students, or administrators can post information about current events at or involving their school. U.S. elementary-high school websites generally use k12 in the URL
Search engine site	A website that indexes material on the Internet or an intranet (and lately on traditional media such as books and newspapers)and provides links to information as a response to a query.	Google Search, Bing, GoodSearch, DuckDuckGo
Social bookmarking site	A site where users share other content from the Internet and rate and comment on the content.	StumbleUpon and Digg are examples.
Social networking site	A site where users could communicate with one another and share media, such as pictures, videos, music, blogs, etc. with other users. These may include games and web applications.	Facebook, Orkut, Google+
Webmail	A site that provides a webmail service.	Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!

Types of websites

Types of websites

Static website 

A static website is one that has web pages stored on the server in the format that is sent to a client web browser. It is primarily coded in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Simple forms or marketing examples of websites, such as classic website, a five-page website or a brochure website are often static websites, because they present pre-defined, static information to the user. This may include information about a company and its products and services through text, photos, animations, audio/video and interactive menus and navigation.

This type of website usually displays the same information to all visitors. Similar to handing out a printed brochure to customers or clients, a static website will generally provide consistent, standard information for an extended period of time. Although the website owner may make updates periodically, it is a manual process to edit the text, photos and other content and may require basic website design skills and software.

A static web page may still have dynamic behavior, provided that this is handled entirely client-side (i.e. within the browser). This may include such features as a JavaScript image zoom feature to display photographs.

In summary, visitors are not able to control what information they receive via a static website, and must instead settle for whatever content the website owner has decided to offer at that time.

They are edited using four broad categories of software:

•      Text editors, such as Notepad or Text Edit, where content and HTML markup are manipulated directly within the editor program

•     WYSIWYG offline editors, such as Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe Dreamweaver (previously Macromedia Dreamweaver), with which the site is edited using a GUI and the final HTML markup is generated automatically by the editor software

•       WYSIWYG online editors which create media rich online presentation like web pages, widgets, intro, blogs, and other documents.

•     Template-based editors, such as Rapid Weaver and iWeb, which allow users to quickly create and upload web pages to a web server without detailed HTML knowledge, as they pick a suitable template from a palette and add pictures and text to it in a desktop publishing fashion without direct manipulation of HTML code.

Static websites may still use server side includes (SSI) as an editing convenience, such as sharing a common menu bar across many pages. As the site's behavior to the reader is still static, this is not considered a dynamic site.

Dynamic website

A dynamic website is one that changes or customizes itself frequently and automatically, based on certain criteria.

Dynamic websites can have two types of dynamic activity: Code and Content. Dynamic code is invisible or behind the scenes and dynamic content is visible or fully displayed.

Dynamic code

The first type is a web page with dynamic code. The code is constructed dynamically on the fly using active programming language instead of plain, static HTML.

A website with dynamic code refers to its construction or how it is built, and more specifically refers to the code used to create a single web page. A dynamic web page is generated on the fly by piecing together certain blocks of code, procedures or routines. A dynamically generated web page would recall various bits of information from a database and put them together in a pre-defined format to present the reader with a coherent page. It interacts with users in a variety of ways including by reading cookies recognizing users' previous history, session variables, server side variables etc., or by using direct interaction (form elements, mouse overs, etc.). A site can display the current state of a dialogue between users, monitor a changing situation, or provide information in some way personalized to the requirements of the individual user.

The second type is a website with dynamic content displayed in plain view. Variable content is displayed dynamically on the fly based on certain criteria, usually by retrieving content stored in a database.

Dynamic content 

A website with dynamic content refers to how its messages, text, images and other information are displayed on the web page and more specifically how its content changes at any given moment. The web page content varies based on certain criteria, either pre-defined rules or variable user input. For example, a website with a database of news articles can use a predefined rule which tells it to display all news articles for today's date. This type of dynamic website will automatically show the most current news articles on any given date. Another example of dynamic content is when a retail website with a database of media products allows a user to input a search request for the keyword Beatles. In response, the content of the web page will spontaneously change the way it looked before, and will then display a list of Beatles products like CDs, DVDs and books.

jQuery

jQuery

jQuery is a multi-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig. It is currently developed by a team of developers led by Dave Methvin. Used by over 65% of the 10,000 most visited websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today.

jQuery is free, open source software, licensed under the MIT License. jQuery's syntax is designed to make it easier to navigate a document, select DOM elements, create animations, handle events, and develop Ajax applications. jQuery also provides capabilities for developers to create plug-ins on top of the JavaScript library. This enables developers to create abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, theme-able widgets. The modular approach to the jQuery library allows the creation of powerful dynamic web pages and web applications.

Microsoft and Nokia have announced plans to bundle jQuery on their platforms. Microsoft is adopting it initially within Visual Studio for use within Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework and ASP.NET MVC Framework while Nokia has integrated it into their Web Run-Time widget development platform. jQuery has also been used in MediaWikisince version 1.16.

Features

jQuery includes the following features:

Ø  DOM element selections using the multi-browser open source selector engine Sizzle, a spin-off out of the jQuery project

Ø  DOM traversal and modification (including support for CSS 1-3)

Ø  DOM manipulation based on CSS selectors that uses node elements name and node elements attributes (id and class) as criteria to build selectors

Ø  Events

Ø  Effects and animations

Ø  AJAX

Ø  Extensibility through plug-ins

Ø  Utilities - such as user agent information, feature detection

Ø  Compatibility methods that are natively available in modern browsers but need fall backs for older ones - For example the inArray() and each()functions.

Ø  Multi-browser (not to be confused with cross-browser) support.

Ø  easy to implement.

jQuery plug-ins

Because of jQuery's architecture, other developers can use its constructs to create plug-in code to extend its functionality. Currently there are thousands of jQuery plug-ins available on the web that cover a wide range of functionality such as Ajax helpers, web services, data grids, dynamic lists, XML and XSLT tools, drag and drop, events, cookie handling, modal windows, even a jQuery-based Commodore 64 emulator.

An important source of jQuery plug-ins is the Plugins sub-domain of the jQuery Project website. However, in an effort to rid the site of spam, the plugins in this sub domain were accidentally deleted in December 2011. The new site will include a GitHub-hosted repository, which will require developers to resubmit their plugins and to conform to new submission requirements. There are alternative plug-in search engines like jQuery. in that take more specialist approaches, such as listing only plug-ins that meet certain criteria (e.g. those that have a public code repository). The tutorials page on the jQuery site has a list of links to jQuery plug-in tutorials under the "Plugin development" section.

Release history 

Version number	Release date	Additional notes
1.0	August 26, 2006	First stable release
1.1	January 14, 2007
1.2	September 10, 2007
1.3	January 14, 2009	Sizzle Selector Engine introduced into core
1.4	January 14, 2010
1.5	January 31, 2011	Deferred callback management, Ajax module rewrite
1.6	May 3, 2011	Significant performance improvements to the attr() and val() functions
1.7	November 3, 2011	New Event APIs: .on() and .off(), while the old APIs are still supported.
1.8.0	August 9, 2012	Sizzle Selector Engine rewritten, improved animations and $(html, props) flexibility.
1.9.0	January 15, 2013	Removal of deprecated interfaces and code cleanup
1.9.1	February 04, 2013
2.0.0	April 18, 2013	Dropped IE6-8 support for performance improvements and reduction in file size