Thinkquest

2011 ◽  
pp. 902-903
Author(s):  
Kathleen P. King
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Submission Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Library

Thinkquest is a worldwide competition funded by the Oracle Foundation that focuses student efforts on project-based learning. Each year students around the world assemble in teams under the guidance of a coach to identify a project and build a Web site to present that topic. In 1996, Oracle Foundation (http://www.oraclefoundation. org/) began an annual competition that by 2006 had grown to include 30,000 participants and an online library of resulting Web sites, the Thinkquest Library, and projects numbering more than 6,000 (Thinkquest, 2007a, para 2). The age of participating students spans ages 9-19. The team has to have a coach who then enrolls the team through the Thinkquest Web site in order that they are up to date with the requirements, submission process, deadlines, and evaluation criteria for the competition.

The Ethics of Web Design

2008 ◽  
pp. 3410-3429
Author(s):  
Jack S. Cook ◽  
Laura Cook
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Issue ◽  
Accessibility Issues ◽  
Web Designers ◽  
Complete Access

Web accessibility is really not a technological issue but rather a cultural problem. A Web site is said to be Web accessible if anyone, regardless of capabilities or disabilities, using any kind of Web browsing technology to visit the site has full and complete access to the site’s content and has the ability to interact with the site if required. If properly planned from the start, a Web site can be functional, accessible and aesthetically pleasing. This chapter focuses on ensuring access to information available on the Internet. The overall objective is to increase awareness of Web accessibility issues by providing rationale for why Web designers should be interested in creating accessible sites. Specifically, this chapter identifies some of the emerging digital barriers to accessibility encountered by those with disabilities. Current efforts to address these barriers legally are identified and their effectiveness for breaking down barriers is discussed. The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is discussed, followed by a study of the 50 most visited Web sites. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the importance of this topic and future developments.

Development and Use of the World Wide Web by US Local Governments

2010 ◽  
pp. 1371-1378
Author(s):  
Carmine Scavo
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Government Web Sites ◽  
The World ◽  
Bulletin Boards ◽  
San Carlos

San Carlos, California (www.cityofsancarlos.org) claims to have developed one of the earliest local government Web sites in the world, posted on May 10, 1994 (San Carlos, 2006). From this early effort, United States (U.S.) cities moved rapidly onto the Web. Norris and Moon (2002), for example, report that some 4.4% of U.S. cities in a 2000 survey by the International City Management Association (ICMA) reported developing Web sites before 1995; 27.1% reported developing their Web sites in the 1995-’96 time period, and 68.5% reported their Web site developed after 1997. San Carlos’ original Web site comprised one page; its current Web site now contains some 8,000 pages and uses some of the Web’s most modern technology available, such as really simple syndication (RSS) and Flash Paper.1 This article uses the example of San Carlos’ Web site, along with two surveys of local government Web sites in the U.S., to illustrate the experience that U.S. local governments have had in developing and using Web sites in the pursuit of bettering governance. The article examines four local government Web applications—bulletin boards, promotions, service delivery and citizen input—and assesses their use by U.S. local governments. The article then addresses current issues of outsourcing Web site design and maintenance, and future issues of privacy, security, the digital divide and the possible effects of increased local government Web sites on U.S. civil society.

A Proposed Template for the Evaluation of Web Design Strategies

2009 ◽  
pp. 293-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Xanthidis ◽  
David Nicholas ◽  
Paris Argyrides
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Web Design ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Web

This chapter is the result of a two years effort to design a template aiming at standardizing, as much as such a task is feasible, the evaluation of Web sites. It is the product of a few publications in international conferences and journals. A thorough review of the international literature on the subject led the authors to conclude there is a very large number of opinions, thoughts and criteria from different professionals involved, directly or indirectly, with the process of designing a good Web site. To make matters even more complicated there are a number of different terms used by various scholars, scientists and professionals around the world that often refer to similar, if not the same, attributes of a Web site. However, it seems that all these differences could boil down to a systematic approach, here called evaluation template, of 53 points that the design strategies of the Web sites should be checked against. This template was tested on a significant number (232) of Web sites of Greek companies and proved it can be used to evaluate the quality of Web sites not only by technology experts but by non-experts alike. The evaluation template, suggested here, is by no means the solution to the problem of standardizing the process of evaluating a Web site but looking at other work done on the subject worldwide it is a step ahead.

Introducing introductory advertising students to the World Wide Web

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth E. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Labs ◽  
The Web

While students at major universities may have access to the World Wide Web via campus computer labs, many have yet to take advantage of the Web's offerings. Regular demonstrations of Web sites were incorporated into an introductory advertising course to pique students’ interest in the Web. This paper discusses how Web site visits were incorporated into lectures and the students’ evaluation of the Web site component of the course.

Evaluating Web Site Support Capabilities in Sell-Side B2B Transaction Processes

2012 ◽  
pp. 53-81
Author(s):  
Wei-Hsi J. Hung ◽  
Chia-An Tsai ◽  
Shin-Yuan Hung ◽  
Robert McQueen ◽  
Jau-Jeng Jou
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Transaction Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Business To Business

Business-to-business (B2B) transactions supported by the World Wide Web (Web) have become a major portion of e-commerce transactions. Despite growth, knowledge of the degree of Web site support capabilities in the B2B transaction process is limited. This paper longitudinally compares how Web sites supported the B2B transaction process in New Zealand and Taiwan between 2001 and 2007. The results indicate that, on average, New Zealand Web sites scored higher than those in Taiwan in both years. Yet, the rate of improvement of Taiwanese Web site scores is significant. Specifically, the support capability of several Web functions, including privacy, company information, financial information and product catalog has improved over the study period. The authors found that the sampled Web sites in New Zealand and Taiwan provide different support capabilities to the activities in the B2B transaction process. Taiwanese Web sites are more concerned with providing after-sale services via the Internet whereas New Zealand Web sites are more concerned with sharing information. These two countries’ Web sites share a similar focus on supporting B2B transactions, which provides strong support for users to conduct product promotion and information provision related activities over the Web. Based on these findings, this study suggests several implications for associated academics and practitioners.

Using a Course Web Site to Enhance Traditional Lecture Style Courses

2000 ◽  
pp. 293-306
Author(s):  
Ross A. Malaga
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
The World ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Web

This chapter examines the role of the World Wide Web in traditional lecture based courses. It details a student oriented approach to the development and maintenance of course Web sites. An experiment was conducted in order to determine if use of a course Web site improves student performance. The surprising results, that students in certain sections did not use the site at all, are analyzed. It was concluded that using the Web in class and making Web assignments part of student’s graded work may impact use of a course Web site.

Extraction of Web Site Evaluation Criteria and Automatic Evaluation

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
◽  
Seiji Yamada ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Automatic Evaluation ◽  
Discriminant Functions ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Evaluation Data ◽  
Site Evaluation ◽  
Ranking Information

This paper proposes an automated web site evaluation using machine learning to extract evaluation criteria from existing evaluation data. Web site evaluation is a significant task because evaluated web sites provide information useful to users in estimating sites validation and popularity. Although many practical approaches have been taken to present possible measuring sticks for web sites, their evaluation criteria are manually determined. We developed a method to obtain evaluation criteria automatically and rank web sites with the learned classifier. Evaluation criteria are discriminant functions learned from a set of ranking information and evaluation features collected automatically by web robots. Experiments confirmed the effectiveness of our approach and its potential in high-quality web site evaluation.

scholarly journals Inter in Iran: Theory and Practice of Web Site Localization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Fahim Afarinasadi
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
The World ◽  
Site Localization

<p>In an increasingly globalized world, web site localization has rapidly become an important form of cross-cultural and multimodal translation. The current pandemic has poignantly demonstrated how crucial multilingual web sites are to all aspects of life – from healthcare to education, from business to sport. The localization of football clubs’ web sites, however, has received very little attention in terms of academic research. As any other brands with local and global markets, football clubs rely on multilingual and multimodal communications to reach wider audience and increase their profile as well as their revenue. Most of the internet users in the world are non-native English speakers. The relevance of this data also applies to the most popular game in the world, football, and ought to be taken into serious consideration by football clubs in shaping their profile and priorities in terms of identity and outreach. The aim of this interdisciplinary thesis – one of the first academic studies worldwide devoted to the theory and practice of football club web site localization, especially in the context of Iran, where interest in national and international football is constantly growing – was thus to investigate how accurate and cross-culturally appropriate the translation of leading football clubs’ web site content actually is. This research project was conceptualized and conducted as a mixed-method case study to generate and combine quantitative and qualitative data in order to analyse and assess the translation and intercultural communication strategies adopted by some of the top football to produce multilingual web site content. Gathered data has been used to establish a set of theoretical principles and practical guidelines to help not only web site localizers and translation scholars but also media consultants and marketing analysts acquire a deeper understanding of how crucial translation quality and cross-cultural competence are – all the more so when localizing into a such a unique language as culture that is far-removed from the source language and culture. The theoretical and practical rubric I have devised has then been tested by translating into Persian selected pages from the web site of Football Club Internazionale Milano, one of the most international (as its name attests) and globally-minded as well as successful football clubs in the world. The findings of this study demonstrate that football clubs ought to consider linguistic and cultural accuracy, alongside up-to-date technology and appealing content, as key factors in achieving not only effective communication but also short-term and long-term success on and off the field.</p>

scholarly journals Spud: A Structured Methodology For The Design Of Web Sites

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Slivinski ◽  
Francis D. Tuggle
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Test Functions ◽  
Order Function ◽  
Search Function ◽  
The World ◽  
Structured Approach ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web (web) grows apace, yet many web sites possess a confusing design, frustrating would-be users. We offer a structured approach, called SPUD (Site - Purpose Users Design) to the task of designing, not implementing, web sites. Our methodology focuses upon a structured walkthrough of a web site and consists of three phases (and 15 substeps), with possible iteration between the stages. (1) Define the audience characteristics of users of the web site, including their motives for visiting, their demographics, and their likely technological capabilities. (2) Plan accordingly the structure of the web site, the page layouts, and the navigation procedures between pages. (3) Develop and test functions useful to the users of the web site, such as a search function (for a complex web site) or an order function (for a retail web site).

Evaluating Web Site Support Capabilities in Sell-Side B2B Transaction Processes

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Hsi J. Hung ◽  
Chia-An Tsai ◽  
Shin-Yuan Hung ◽  
Robert McQueen ◽  
Jau-Jeng Jou
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Transaction Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Business To Business

Business-to-business (B2B) transactions supported by the World Wide Web (Web) have become a major portion of e-commerce transactions. Despite growth, knowledge of the degree of Web site support capabilities in the B2B transaction process is limited. This paper longitudinally compares how Web sites supported the B2B transaction process in New Zealand and Taiwan between 2001 and 2007. The results indicate that, on average, New Zealand Web sites scored higher than those in Taiwan in both years. Yet, the rate of improvement of Taiwanese Web site scores is significant. Specifically, the support capability of several Web functions, including privacy, company information, financial information and product catalog has improved over the study period. The authors found that the sampled Web sites in New Zealand and Taiwan provide different support capabilities to the activities in the B2B transaction process. Taiwanese Web sites are more concerned with providing after-sale services via the Internet whereas New Zealand Web sites are more concerned with sharing information. These two countries’ Web sites share a similar focus on supporting B2B transactions, which provides strong support for users to conduct product promotion and information provision related activities over the Web. Based on these findings, this study suggests several implications for associated academics and practitioners.

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