Information System

Information Website is a special service for web masters that gathers detailed information on websites - general information. The World Wide Web is a vast information resource. This unit will provide you with the foundation skills to use search engines confidently to locate both information and images on the Web. You will also learn how to critically assess and reference the information you have found for study purposes.

Information Website use search engines confidently to locate information and images on the Web; critically address resources that you locate on the Web; describe some of the processes underlying search engines. In the case of web-based studies, informed consent can be "documented" by requiring participants to click on a link or image that indicates acceptance of the consent form, and advances participants to an online study web page that is otherwise inaccessible to visitors. The service is very easy-to-use - simply search for the URL, keyword or install our Widget and there you go.

Advertise: to announce publicly, especially by a printed notice or a broadcast. Certainly Websites fall into this category. But this concept is deceptively simple. Websites differ sharply from traditional advertising. Unlike a display ad, billboard, or broadcast spot, a Website is hidden. You need a Web address, or link from a search engine, or Web page to get to it. While people and do stumble across a Website while “surfing,” Website advertising is fundamentally different, and must be understood on its own terms.

Your company’s purpose, however, may be business-to-business sales. You probably don’t need an on-line sales mechanism so much as a complete, up-to-date catalog. You can include literally thousands of products, prices, descriptions, and photos, at a cost far below that of printing and distributing printed copies. Your catalog can prompt ordering via phone or fax, or could or even on-line ordering if your product is right....