Souk digital the home of digital plenty
So what is a souk anyway? This is what wikipedia has to say on the matter:
A souk (سوق, also sook, souq, or suq) is a commercial quarter in an Arab city. The term is often used to designate the market in any Arabized city. It may also refer to the weekly market in some smaller towns where neutrality from tribal conflicts would be declared to permit the exchange of surplus goods. Though each neighbourhood within the city would have a local souk selling food and other essentials, the main souk was one of the central structures of a large city. A central marketplace, it was where textiles, jewellery, spices and other valuable goods,the most expensive of these being the wooden sculptures as well as the money changers were arranged in a line. A quadrilateral of stone-vaulted streets parallel to or crossing each other or a tight mass of buildings too packed together for roads to intersect them. The workshops were further away from this centre of exchange as were the main residential quarters – those the wealthier merchants or scholars might live within the centre of the city. The souk was a level of municipal administration. The Muhtasib was responsible for supervising business practices and collecting taxes for a given suq while the Arif are the overseers for a specific trade. In a souk, the final price of an item is reached by bargaining with the shopkeeper. Traders of a given commodity would all sell in the same souk, thus ensuring a competitive market. In some African countries the souk was a place where people could come and talk, or sit down to tell stories.
So that is what a souk is; so what is souk digital? Well its sort of like that except dealing in digital essentials. One such digital essential is Cineworld Not only does this website contain some interesting AJAX functions (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) it also gave rise this this character: Mr. Page, a misunderstood character who just wanted to help. Shortly a Mr. Page comic strip will be released.
A previously released Mr. Page document, he just wanted to help, but his ideas fell on stoney ground. The idea here was to streamline the delivery of website.
A New process for the effective delivery of websites:
Creative produces designs
Creative director signs off designs
Creative producer signs of designs (if not signed off designers must re-work to recommendations)
After all designs sign off for production technical director gives the all clear for work to start
Java team produce a schema from which they produce unformated xml pages
All styles are implemented by front end builders via css and xslt using server side transforms.
Small portions of the site would require custom components such as javascript functions
For the sake of completeness here is the wikipedia definition for digital
A digital system is one that uses discrete numbers, especially binary numbers, or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system).
The distinction of "digital" versus "analog" can refer to method of input, data storage and transfer, the internal working of an instrument, and the kind of display. The word comes from the same source as the word digit and digitus: the Latin word for finger (counting on the fingers) as these are used for discrete counting.
The word digital is most commonly used in computing and electronics, especially where real-world information is converted to binary numeric form as in digital audio and digital photography. Such data-carrying signals carry either one of two electronic or optical pulses, logic 1 (pulse present) or 0 (pulse absent). The term is often meant by the prefix "e-", as in e-mail and ebook, even though not all electronics systems are digital.
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