Web 236

WEB 236

Creating and Maintaining a Website

Daniel Ogden, CaSara Williams and Tyrell Rouse

Web 237

December 1, 2010

George Griepp

Creating and Maintaining a Website

The world is moving forward in the pursuit to manage everything digitally. Maintaining and creating just about anything is available online through the World Wide Web. Consumer and businesses a-like benefit from the vast power the web has to offer. For example, creating a website is as easy as one wants it to be. There are many website builders for novice difficulty as well as programs such as Adobe Dreamweaver for unlimited control while creating a website or page. This paper will touch on a student made website named K5 and four core topics that include, identifying the importance of professional standards in web development, how metadata can promote a website, the process to publish a website and the need to maintain and redesign a website.

Standards

Effective website design plays a critical role in attracting and maintaining customers' interest. Despite the importance of websites as the major and, at times, sole channel of communication in e-business falls to the wayside. Methods used to approach the current standards are important to the initial launch of the site itself. Ethics in any business are important to the overall function of the site and its creators (Song, 2005). Project managers or team leaders have to be mother-like while working on projects with others.

Ethics just like manners are expected in all aspects of business at all times. Privacy and research ethics related to the use of computers and the internet are monitored heavily to reduce theft or plagiarism. If one has, a solid set of standards to build and teach off the success of the site, is only how it is managed and ran. Thus, leading to tangible data to show the principles that the project was established upon when creating K5.

Metadata

In this section of the paper, metadata will be described, and how it...