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STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

The Swiftbot team has been meticulously designing and coding this new portal website. There were a great deal of thoughts and discussions about HTML5 and CSS3, and the correlation in consuming information on mobile devices versus on traditional online websites. There are similarities but the team strongly believes there is a clear separation between "online mobile apps" design and "native mobile apps" design.

The website is designed for viewing on the iPhone, iPad, Android phone, and Android tablet including the Nook Color. However, the website is not designed to replace the "native mobile apps" look-and-feel. The website UI reflects Swiftbot's core competency in transforming digital publications into native mobile apps. Swiftbot's iOS and Android Apps will be free to download and are coming soon to the Apple iTunes Store and Android Market Place.

The website is a pure CSS3 and HTML5 creation, there is NO image, e.g. no corner-image, no shading image, nor 1-pixel-image, other than the color product images and the Swiftbot's icon. The javascripts and css files are verified, combined and compressed. As the result, the average download time for a complete page is 1/4 of a second, not including the product images i.e. the eye-candy, therefore, the website is readable and elegant without images.

This website is not developed in a vacuum. The Swiftbot team expresses their deep and sincere gratitude to the following open source technologies, reference websites, and colleagues. "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." [Sir Isaac Newton]

Core Technologies
LinuxOpen Source Operating System
Apache ServerOpen Source Web Server
PHP"Personal Home Page" or "Hypertext Preprocessor", Open Source Programming Language
JoomlaOpen Source CMS
JavaScriptJavascript Programming Language
HTML5Hypertext Markup Language
CSS3Cascading Style Sheets
MySQLOpen Source Database
JQueryOpen Source Javacript Library
JSLintOpen Source Javacript Code Quality Tool
Apache AntOpen Source Software Tool for Automating Software Build Processes
EclipseOpen Source IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
Reference Websites
WikipediaThe Free Encyclopedia, [save the world from googol of useless search result links]
w3SchoolOnline Web Tutorial
Apple UIThe Philosophy of UI Design: Fundamental Principles
WebkitOpen Source Web Browser Engine
Web Design WallCSS3 Tutorial
Rich BradshawUsing CSS3 Transitions, Transforms and Animation
Color ZillaUltimate CSS Gradient Generator
Special Thanks
Dr. Braun Researcher, network security
Dr. XieResearcher, social networking analytics
Christelle KouairyFrench Translation