synthesis of web sites

  1. Accessible to all browsers and versions
    1. Neutral Javascript (ECMAScript)
    2. Neutral Java
    3. or Inside or Outside
    4. Conformance to standards
      1. HTML 4.0
      2. HTML 3.2
      3. XML 1.0
      4. DOM
  2. Accessible in text-only form
  3. Accessible to all platforms
  4. Accessible in non-visual formats (braille, speech)
  5. Pleasing to look at
  6. Standard look on all browsers/platforms
    1. Physical versus logical
    2. Style Sheets
  7. Easily navigable
    1. Optimum amount of information per page
    2. Graphic or text links?
  8. Data repository
    1. Good source of information
    2. Easily Transferable
  9. Easy to find the information you want
  10. Search Engine
  11. Download reasonably fast
  12. Perform adequately at high load (above 10,000/hr?)
    1. Reasonable resources
    2. Platform choice
    3. Server choice
    4. Data repository choice
  13. Constant Updates
  14. 'Unique selling point'
  15. Production System
    1. Easy to update and expand
    2. Interesting and flexible for developers
    3. User Interface
    4. Document management
  16. 'Ways in'
    1. Well Networked
    2. Media fertilisation
  17. Contributors
    1. Hard core of commitment
    2. Commission or community?
    3. Selves or slaves?
  18. Inside or Outside
  19. Commercially self-justifying further than that last, i don't want to consider money as a part of the problem. it could be harmful to think about it.

    if we can grasp a pattern for a small element, it helps us solve that of which it is a part; if we can break patterns down into the smallest isolable units, the more inter-relationships we can resolve happily. i don't know if a website is too large a concept to grasp, but i feel happier grasping at something too large than fiddling with something too little.

    05/01/99