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Website Practice: W-Z - Archive

The wasted web, By James Lewin. Computerworld, 6 February, 2003. "Over the last few years, search engines have become the most important source of traffic to websites. The web has also become one of the most popular sources for information, especially among regular web users. Because of this, exposing your content to the web, and making it easy to find in search engines, is one of the best ways to maximize the return you get from creating content..."

Web Addressing

  • W3C - Last Call: URI and IRI Internet-Drafts 2004-08-17: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has announced two Last Call Internet-Drafts important for Web addressing. The documents are coordinated IETF-W3C efforts.
    • Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
    • Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)

Web Applications

  • Views and Forms: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications Part 1, by Bob Baxley. Boxes and Arrows, May 12, 2003. "Creating web applications that support the full and valid completion of specific tasks, operations, and database transactions, require some understanding of how to manipulate the medium to that purpose..."
  • Wizards and Guides: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications Part 2, by Bob Baxley. Boxes and Arrows, February 25, 2004. "In part one of this article the discussion was one of views, forms, and the manner in which they could be combined into a particular type of task structure known as a hub. The purpose of this installment is to expand on those themes by exploring two other types of task structures commonly employed in web applications. Known as wizards and guides, these additional structures are useful for presenting complex transactions and multipart processes in smaller and more manageable sequences of individual steps..."

Web-based Surveys: Changing the Survey Process, by Holly Gunn. First Monday, volume 7, number 12, December 2002. "Abstract - Web-based surveys are having a profound influence on the survey process. Unlike other types of surveys, Web page design skills and computer programming expertise play a significant role in the design of Web-based surveys. Survey respondents face new and different challenges in completing a Web-based survey. This paper examines the different types of Web-based surveys, the advantages and challenges of using Web-based surveys, the design of Web-based surveys, and the issues of validity, error, and non-response in this type of survey. The author also discusses the importance of auxiliary languages (graphic, symbolic and numeric languages) in Web surveys, and concludes with the unique aspects of Web-based surveys."

Web Blogs

Web Branding Takes Hold As Direct Navigation Is Most Popular Method For Delivering Users To Web Sites - More Efficient Web Surfing on the Rise as Users Know Exactly Where They Want to Go, According to WebSideStory's StatMarket (SAN DIEGO, CA - February 6, 2003) - "WebSideStory, Inc. ( www.websidestory.com), the leader in outsourced Web analytics, today reported that the majority of Internet sites worldwide are reached through direct navigation - typing a URL in their browser address bar or using a bookmark - rather than through search engines and Web links. As of February 3, 2003, over 64 percent of Internet users arrived at sites by direct navigation, compared to about 53 percent only a year ago..."

Web Governance

  • Web Management and Governance - Firstgov. " Want to improve web management and governance at your agency? Our Governance Task Group developed the following information and resources to help you understand what web governance is and what you can do to make sure your web governance structure is right for your agency..."

Web Intelligence Consortium

  • The Web Intelligence Consortium. SearchDay August 5, 2002 - Number 326. "A group of researchers has launched a new consortium focused on artificial intelligence and advanced information technology on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities...."

Web, IT professionals unconcerned with law, By Stephen Bell. Computerworld, 27 June, 2002 7:29 WELLINGTON, New Zealand. "Web site proprietors don't recognize the legal risks they are taking, says consultant and New Zealand Computer Society (NZCS) fellow Ian Mitchell...."

Web Ontology

  • W3C - 9 July 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of requirements for the Ontology Web Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - OWL Web Ontology Language Working Drafts Published 31 July 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released three first Working Drafts. The Feature Synopsis, Abstract Syntax and Language Reference describe the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)
    • W3C hails semantic Web, Web services usage scenarios, By Paul Krill. Computerworld, 2 August, 2002. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Wednesday detailed the release of working drafts of its OWL Web Ontology Language to enable development of the Semantic Web..."
  • W3C - Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases Published - 24 October 2002: The first public Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases has been released. The draft illustrates correct OWL usage, the formal meaning of OWL constructs, and resolution of issues considered by the Web Ontology Working Group. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics Working Draft Published - 11 November 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics. The draft is a high-level description of the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide Working Draft Published - 8 November 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has published its first Working Draft of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide. The OWL Guide demonstrates the use of OWL to formalize a domain by defining classes and properties of those classes; define individuals and assert properties about them, and reason about these classes and individuals to the degree permitted by the formal semantics of the OWL language. Read about the Web Ontology Working Group.
  • W3C - Working Draft of the OWL Language Reference Updated - 14 November 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Language Reference for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - OWL Use Cases and Requirements Published - 4 February 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Use Cases and Requirements for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. The draft defines "ontology." It outlines six use cases, design goals, requirements and objectives for a language which can describe the semantics of classes and properties used in Web documents. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - OWL Guide and Overview Working Drafts Published 10 February 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide and Overview. The guide demonstrates OWL through an extended example and provides a glossary. The overview lists and briefly describes the language features. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - OWL Test Cases Working Draft Published 18 February 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases. Designed for OWL developers, the draft is a companion to the OWL language definition. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - Working Draft of the OWL Language Reference Updated 21 February 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Language Reference for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. The document is designed for OWL users familiar with RDF who want to construct OWL ontologies for publishing and sharing on the Web. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - OWL Last Call Working Drafts Published 1 April 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released six Working Drafts, five in Last Call, for the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0, including the OWL Guide, Overview, Use Cases and Requirements, Semantics and Abstract Syntax, Reference, and Test Cases. Comments are welcome through 9 May. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
  • W3C - OWL Test Cases Last Call Published: 29 May 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the OWL Web Ontology Language Test Cases. Designed for OWL developers, the draft is a companion to the OWL language definition. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - OWL XML Presentation Syntax Published 13 June 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released XML Presentation Syntax for the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as a W3C Note. The Note suggests one possible XML presentation syntax and includes XML schemas for OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
  • W3C - Web Ontology Language (OWL) Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation 19 August 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the OWL Web Ontology Language to Candidate Recommendation. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, providing advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Comments are welcome. Read the press release and FAQ and more about the Semantic Web Activity. The OWL Web Ontology Language in six parts:
  • OWL Web Ontology Language Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation 2003-12-15: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are invited through 19 January. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read about the Semantic Web Activity. The OWL language is presented in six parts.
  • W3C - Parsing OWL in RDF/XML Published 2004-01-21: The Web Ontology Working Group has released Parsing OWL in RDF/XML as a Working Group Note. The OWL language is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. This document describes a strategy for OWL-RDF parsers. Read about the Semantic Web.

Web Page Analyzer - 0.90a - "Test your web site speed and improve website performance with our free web-based analyzer. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and page download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and finds the total for each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page display time and website speed. The script incorporates best practices from HCI research into its recommendations..."

The Web Robots Pages - "Web Robots are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Some people call them Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders. These pages have further information about these Web Robots...."

Web Security

  • OASIS to develop common security language, By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service. InfoWorld, May 29, 2003. "A new committee at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is laying the groundwork for a new classification system to describe Web security vulnerabilities..."

Web Servers

  • February 2004 Netcraft Survey Highlights. Server Watch, February 4, 2004. "The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its February 2004 survey from 47,173,415 sites..."
  • June 2004 Netcraft Survey Highlights, By ServerWatch Staff. Server Watch, June 7, 2004. "The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its June 2004 survey from 51,635,284 sites. This is more than 1 million more sites than responded in May..."
  • Web Server Security - Hacking Your Own Site, by Dan Wellman. dev-shed.com, 23 August 2004. "The purpose of this article is not to teach you how to hack sites, but to show you some scenarios that may reveal to you how vulnerable your existing site may be, or will hopefully help you prevent any future sites from having these vulnerabilities..."
  • April 2005 Web Server Survey. Netcraft, April 2005. "In the April 2005 survey we received responses from 62,286,451 sites. The monthly gain of nearly 1.7 million hostnames marks the strongest growth thus far in 2005. When compared with previous years, the big gain suggests a seasonal pattern to the Internet's strongest growth. Last year's biggest month was April, with a similar gain of 1.7 million hostnames, while 2003's best showing was a 3.3million site gain in March. Those are the three largest monthly gains since the Internet economy began its recovery in 2002..."
  • May 2005 Web Server Survey. netcraft.com - "In the May 2005 survey we received responses from 63,532,742 sites, an increase of 1.24 million sites from last month. The gain continues the strong growth of the Web, which has added an average 1.2 million sites per month thus far in 2005..."
  • July 2005 Web Server Survey. Netcraft.com. "In the July 2005 survey we received responses from 67,571,581 sites. The gain of 2.76 million hostnames from June is the second-largest monthly increase in the history of our survey, as 2005 continues to shape up as a historic year for Internet growth..."

Web services execs explain ROI, By Tom Sullivan. Computerworld, 27 June, 2002. "Although the model for customers to generate revenue from Web services remains unclear, executives on Wednesday here at the TechXNY conference maintained that the ROI in Web services comes largely though cost-savings...."

Web Site Hosting

  • The 14 Point Web Hosting Checklist, By Ed Zivkovic. Site Pro News, 2 August 2004. "How To Select A Web Hosting Company. When starting out, it is easy to overlook some of the most important factors when selecting a web host while paying too much attention on great features which you may not need at the start..."

Web Site Load Testing

  • Load Testing for Public Web Sites - Opinion by John Klinke, Keynote Systems Inc. Computerworld, July 20, 2004. "A public Web site usually represents a considerable investment. Everyone wants it to operate smoothly; there's a lot of pressure on the development and operations teams to ensure that there won't be a problem when a new or changed site goes into production..."

Web Site Management

  • Number one skill for managing a website, by Gerry McGovern. New Thinking, April 25, 2005 - Volume 10 Number 16. "Having a deep understanding of the gut instinct of your customer is the number one skill of managing a website. That involves getting face to face with them..."

Web Site Marketing

  • Web Site Marketing Techniques Rated, by Sky Maya. Promotion Data, Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003. "There are many ways to market your web site, both online and offline. Which ones are worth it? This article will rate several popular methods on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the absolute most effective, and 1 being worthless..."

Web sites, databases and other illusions, by Sean McGrath, IDG News Service, Computerworld, 23 October 2003. "Strange as it may seem, there is actually no such thing as a web site. By this I mean that URLs - the things we instruct our browsers to fetch - are pretty much opaque strings as far as the infrastructure of the Web is concerned..."

The Web's next leap, by Patrick Thibodeau, IDG News Service, Computerworld, 22 April 2003. "Information technology managers are familiar with the concept of the Semantic Web, even if they haven't heard the name before. The Semantic Web is about giving users the ability to manipulate, connect and associate Web resources in new and powerful ways. It's a capability similar to that of the corporate workhorse, the relational database..."

Websites number one method of product research for consumers, report. Europemedia, 31 March 2003. "Interactive marketing - online advertising, websites, emails and search engine marketing - have a distinct impact on the purchase process of many products not necessarily sold online, according to new research from market analysts Double Click/Touchpoints. This impact varies by product category, but overall, online marketing has greatest impact on the further learning and purchase decision phases of the purchase process..."

Web Style Guide

  • Learn how to implement an effective web style guide, By Gerry McGovern, New Thinking, May 17, 2004 Volume 9 Number 19. "A style guide helps you quickly and cost-effectively publish content that is of a consistent quality. It is particularly important when there are lots of editors and authors involved in the publishing process. A good style guide takes a lot of time and effort to create. Unless its implementation is policed, it will not achieve its objectives..."

Web 2.0

  • Content is King No More: Web 2.0 Is About Interaction. knemeyer.com, October 7, 2005. "...We hear a lot about the basics of Web 2.0: how it is about user control of content. Or about websites that behave more like thick client applications. Or about web products that are designed to facilitate network effects and serve as a co-collaborative space between the product’s provider and the user community. But we haven’t talked enough about the larger implications of these things, and how this affects the structure and importance of design teams and approaches. In short, what it means to people like us. While a lot can be written on this, the thing that is most glaring and poignant to me is the seismic shift in importance from a focus on content and information to behavior and interaction..."

Websites that crash, By Tim Richardson. The Register, 9 September 2003. "Nine out of ten people have been forced to abandon an online transaction because the application failed before completion..."

What the net did next, By Mark Ward. BBC News, 1 January 2003. "The internet is set to become the basis for just about every form of communication, according to net pioneer Vint Cerf, and he should know what he is talking about..."

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

  • WSIS: Whose vision of an information society? by Ajit K. Pyati. First Monday, Volume 10, number 5, May 2005. "Abstract - The United Nations (UN) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in their development of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), are contributing to the on–going discourse of the "Information Society." This study analyzes how WSIS contributes to the on–going Information Society discourse, especially how it frames a vision of an Information Society and the global "digital divide."..."

Worlds apart: the difference between intranets and websites. Steptwo.com.au, March 2003. "Beyond a common use of HTML, intranets and corporate websites (internet sites) are very different animals. The needs they meet, the content they contain, and the users that access them are all very distinct. These differences need to be understood by site designers, and reflected both in the design process and the final product. This article summarises some of the key differences between intranets and websites..."

W3C head Berners-Lee to be knighted - Tim Berners-Lee is being recognized for his work on the World Wide Web, by Grant Gross. Computerworld, January 2, 2004. "Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web and now the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, will be named a knight commander, Order of the British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth II, the W3C announced Wednesday..."

W3C members: Do as we say, not as we do, By Paul Festa, Staff Writer, CNET News.com, September 5, 2002. "In a test of whether members of the Web's premier standards group are willing to eat their own dog food, companies and organizations from Microsoft to the United States Environmental Protection Agency were found to be picky eaters. The second biannual survey, conducted by Helsinki, Finland-based Web designer Marko Karppinen showed that only 21, or 4.6 percent, of 454 member sites Karppinen could access passed the W3C's own HTML validator, which tests for grammatically correct HTML..."

W3C releases scripting standard, caveat, By Paul Festa. ZDNet, January 10, 2003. "The Web's leading standards body released a long-delayed recommendation for using scripts in Web pages but urged coders not to rely too heavily on scripting..."

W3C - Requirements for a Web Ontology Language Published - 8 March 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released a Working Draft of requirements for the Ontology Web Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.

W3C to ponder Web services choreography, By Paul Krill. Computerworld, 15 January, 2003. "The World Wide Web Consortium on Tuesday agreed to form a working group to draft an industry-wide recommendation on implementing Web services choreography, to enable Web services to better interact with each other for more automated transactions..."

W3C - Web Services Requirements Published 29 April 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released the first Working Draft of "Web Services Architecture Requirements," the reference architecture and the constraints used to determine implementation conformance. The Web Services Description Working Group has released the first Working Draft of "Web Service Description Requirements," the definitions and requirements for application to application communication. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity.

W3C Whips Up API to Manage Web Languages, By Clint Boulton. Internetnews.com, January 9, 2003. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Thursday finished a specification of an API (define) for manipulating HTML (define) and XHTML 1.0 (define) documents and data through a programming language. Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML has been issued as a W3C Recommendation, meaning the group favors its passage. The organization said DOM Level 2 HTML makes scripting for the Web with Java, or another programming language, easier and more reliable..."

WWW 2002 - The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference. Conference Proceedings, 7 - 11 May 2002.

WWW 2003 - The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference - Budapest Congress Centre, 20-24 May 2003 Budapest, Hungary

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