Web Design
Introduction
When the Internet and World Wide Web were first created, they were designed a research tools and for the distribution of information through information systems networks. But as the use of the Web has become increasingly more complex, the focus on Web pages and their design has initiated a number of major changes. Initially, static Web pages were common, but the focus in recent years has been on the development of dynamic Web pages which are linked to databases and allow for the integration of information on a number of different levels.
Web sites have progressed to a new level of sophistication, especially in terms of their capacity to track and store usage patterns and allow for the utilization of this
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The Progression from Static Web Pages.
Less than a decade ago, when interest in the World Wide Web began to develop, Web sites were primarily static, and individuals had access through a direct choice of that site in order to view the information the site contained. Some developers recall the days when individuals would spend hours on what has been described as a “mental treasure hunt” searching for the best Web sites and then trading the information with others (Tebbe N23). Web sites, though active, were rarely interactive, and without an external “linked” capacity, they failed to provide support for further searches and limited the movement on the Web.
The impetus for changing the static Web site came as a result of pressure to pay for site management, the pursuit of a justification for advertising costs that are Web-based, and the desire to build some profits into the nature of Web interactions, elements that could not inherently stem from the once-passive pages (Tebbe N23). The need for Web pages that could “reach out and touch us” was a fundamental component of the changing face of the World Wide Web, and developers have recognized the benefits of the more aggressive Web-based elements that have redefined the way that businesses, developers and individuals perceive the Web (Tebbe N23).
At the onset of the pursuit of
The first versions of WWW ((what most people call “The Web”))) provide means for people around the world to exchange information between, to work together, to communicate, and to share documentation more efficiently. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first browser (called WWW browser) and Web server in March 1991, allowing hypertext documents to be stored, fetched, and viewed. The Web can be seen as a tremendous document store where these documents (web pages) can be fetched by typing their address into a web browser. To do that, two im- portant techniques have been developed. First, a language called Hypertext Markup Languag (HTML) tells the computers how to display documents which contain texts, photos, sounds, visuals (video), and animation, interactive
My paper focuses on a security assessment of Quality Web Design (QWD), which is a very successful company that is well-known for its magnificent and appealing websites; they work
Web Design is almost like an art. It is the design of information and services over the Internet. Luckily for businesses and customers the information and services provided are in done so through the World Wide Web (WWW). As I mentioned earlier Web design is a form of art, meaning that art and organization are needed to form customized Web pages to fit a particular business’ needs. Services for Web design can be accomplished in a variety of ways: professionally through a Web designer, created through hypertext mark-up language, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, and Microsoft FrontPage as well as other “What you see is what you get” {WYSIWYG) editors or languages.
Sometimes it seems like the computer game industry is dying, crushed to death by its own bulk. Every year more and more gaming companies get gobbled up into huge conglomerates like Electronic Arts, companies that mostly put out trash that is technically and visually impressive, but devoid of concept and content. However, there are some small gaming companies that buck the trend. While mostly just small groups of programmers and artists, some are huge unions of fans who, irritated with the dropping quality of computer games, have decided to use the power of the internet to get together and to produce games tailor-made to their personal preferences.
In the universe of internet there are thousands of sites with different formats, objectives, specialties and services, and today on the web we can find the same products that can be found walking the city streets: newspapers, electronic stores, banks, grocery stores, transportation services, hospitals, pharmacies, gift shops and hundreds of department stores.
“With an estimated 46.5 billion webpages indexed by Google alone by 2011, there is seemingly no end in sight for web growth” (DeRoche, October
The web browser application is found on these digital devices, and is used as the main application to garner information on the Internet. The web browser can be viewed as a window looking out into the vast space of the Internet which allows a user to view the enormous encyclopedia that has been created by the human race.
Information in today 's world seems vast and often times limitless yet acquiring that information has become almost an effortless task since the arrival of the Internet. In the past 20 years this global system of interconnected computer networks has grown by leaps and bounds. The Internet has managed to provide the masses with an informational platform that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It delivers whatever we may need, desire or want to know about with just a few simple clicks or keystrokes. A technological medium that has become quite instrumental in our daily lives.
The emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) has brought exciting new possibilities in information access and electronic business. The WWW has grown to be the largest distributed repository of information ever created. Current estimates reveal that the Web currently contains about 3 billion static documents and being accessed by over 500 million users from around the world [6]. Web content consists largely of distributed hypertext and hypermedia, accessible via keyword-based search and link navigation. Simplicity is one of the Web’s major strengths and an important feature in its popularity and growth. It is this simplicity that has fuelled its wide uptake and exponential growth. However, it is this very simplicity that is hampering further
Following the success of Netscape and its web browser, Internet became a resource and communication platform idolized by many IT students in the universities. What started off as a hobby-cum-research[1] work by Jerry Yang (now Chief of Yahoo!) and David Filo (Co-founder of Yahoo!) for their Ph.D. dissertations; has evolved and became an Internet sensation over time. What they did was to compile all their favourite web links to form an online directory for easy navigation in the World Wide Web. The duo’s work immediately garnered a lot of attention from many surfers in the Internet world and before they realized it, Yahoo! became one of the most highly visited websites of all time. The duo saw the
For example, commercial banks began to use electronic funds transfers to speed up payment. In1970’s and 1980’s, e-commerce expanded significantly within the business sector, while governments attempted to improve information exchange and security. Late 1980’s and early 1990’s, online services have been emerged, using first-generation news, email, and chat capabilities. In the year 1995’s, the browser and its key associated with protocol, also known as HTTP, are commercialized, turning the “home page” into an important component of corporate marketing. In late 1990’s, Dot-coms phenomenon began with the use of Web as their primary channel for product distribution, proliferate and challenge established
Databases end up being web reachable completely through HTML structure based hunt interfaces. The information units return to from the key database regularly customized into the outcome pages energetically for human scanning. A lot of data is accessible in the web today. Data extraction is characterized as the programmed extraction of organized data from unstructured archives. Despite the fact that the pages are more hearty and adaptable, the data extraction framework changes the code into easy to understand structures. In this paper, we propose to construct a school site that gives crucial data to the clients. This methodology is bolstered by easy to use device.
Web portals in the past were seen primarily as gateways as was stated earlier, thereby limiting the creative control administrators could have over the design of the web site. Due to the shift in functionality of web portals however, as well as the added value of UCC, it has become increasingly challenging to design web sites where users can find exactly what they are looking for (Fang, et al, 2004). Prominent gaming portals IGN (Fox Media, 1996), and Gamespot (Deemer, et al, 1996), display the attributes of good web design, limiting the amount of useless hyperlinks, and utilises taxonomy for articles to make them easier for users to access the information they need. Gamespot also allows for a degree of personalisation within the site allowing users to select which background and forum theme they wish to use, whose selection will be stored with the user account information, and this personalisation can help the users feel connected to the portal, thereby ensuring their continued presence (Bellas, et al, 2004). A web portal needs
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web and gave theoretical and technological background for a new hypertext based linked information system, pointed out the problem of keywords. Searching for a particular information, document or webpage is a far more complex and longer process then it should be, mainly because two people never seem to choose the same keyword for the same concept. (Berners-Lee, 1990) This problem becomes more and more acute as we enter the age of the Social Web characterized by collaborative and continuous creation, adaptation and alteration of content. The first generation of web tools, between 1990 and 2003, allowed users to publish information on a static page which could be read using
HTML (HyperTex Markup Language) was originally released by Tim BernersLee and Robert Cailliau in May 1991 (Mowery and Simcoe, 2002). HTML is the language used to write and create a web page as it enabled authors to include multimedia documents such as sounds, pictures and videos in their web pages and it was a fulfilment of hypertext which allows people to include hypertexts in their documents. It enabled authors to link certain images or words to other documents and could directly led users to another web page. As a means to represent data on the page, HTML is the underlying system of Information management which not only defines what a web page looks like but also how it is broken into separate information segments. HTML page