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Mapping Web Sites, Planning Diagrams to Site Maps
- Presented by Paul Kahn, revised May 1999, Today's web site is a
combination of a publication, a software application, and navigation
system. Building such a complex product requires both verbal and visual
analysis. Planning diagrams are an essential tool in the analysis
process, helping a team understand the content and relationships that
the design of a web site must represent. Even with the best design, a
web site is largely invisible and often difficult to grasp. As the web
has grown as a publishing media, designers have struggled to find the
equivalent of an index or table of contents for a web site. A web site
is not a book, a magazine, a virtual city or a file system. We will
explore the kinds of diagram that can visually represent a web site...
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Hiring
a Site Developer - by
Evany
Thomas 1 Jun 1999, So
you're finally ready to take your Bob Saget fridge magnet company to the
next level: The Web, you've heard, is going to be big, and sagetmag.net
is going to be huge right along with it.
The only thing that stands between you
and your very own piece of the Web pie is one, small hurdle: You still
need a Web site.
Of course, you could teach yourself how
to build your own - why, everything you'd ever need to know about site
building, from the
basics
of HTML to
advanced
e-commerce techniques, can be found at Webmonkey. But,
outrageously successful business person that you are, you know for a
fact that time is money. And in the many hours it'd take you to learn
the Web ropes, you could have rolled out a legion of Bob bodies plus an
array of cute little magnetic outfits to dress him up in.
No, you need to hire someone to build
that site. But do you have the money, honey, to bankroll such an
undertaking? ...
CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE
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Mappa
Mundi - An excellent and beautiful
source for unusual maps, including internets maps... "Revealing
Invisible Worlds"
NEW!
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Treemaps
for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies - A
University of Maryland student's study of data visualization...
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Visual
SiteMap - Sitemap is a Java application that visualizes a
given web site (or a collection of links). Through a WebCrawler, Sitemap
first traverses every link of the web site, collects statistical data,
and index all the words and pages of the site. Based on the statistical
data and the indexing, sitemap converts each page of the site into a
vector, and uses these vectors to train a neural network. As the
outcome, the trained neural network presents the site in an organized
map: subject areas are identified and labeled; their sizes and locations
are determined by relationships among the subjects and by their
occurrence and co-occurrence frequencies. Links are clustered and
located within their respective subject areas, represented by colored
dots... NEW!
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Maps
of Web Sites - Web site maps are created by webmasters
and content providers to help users navigate and search complex web
sites. A variety of styles of map are used, many based on organizational
charts. Presented here are some of the best examples from around the
Web... NEW!
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The
Beginning of Web Design - Jakob Nielsen argues that
"websites must tone down their individual appearance and distinct
design in all ways." Nielsen argues that because the user's web
experience is becoming more interconnected -- with syndicated content
and services, and the growth of network-based computing -- sites need to
become more generic in "visual design, terminology and labeling,
interaction design and workflow, [and] information architecture..."
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The Cross-Platform Browser Blues
- As Web designers we've all experienced our Web pages looking good in
either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, but then degrading from
their intended design when viewed in the other browser. Some of us may
have designed or maintain sites that serve different versions of pages
to the two main browsers. It's enough to make you want to cry
"can't we all just get along?"
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Current
world map of the Internet - Showing hosts on the Internet. This
map uses data from July 1999...
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