Sustainable Web Ecosystem Design

Description

This book is about the process of creating web-based systems (i.e., websites, content, etc.) that consider each of the parts, the modules, the organisms – binary or otherwise – that make up a balanced, sustainable web ecosystem. In the current media-rich environment, a website is more than a collection of relative html documents of text and images on a static desktop computer monitor. There is now an unlimited combination of screens, devices, platforms, browsers, locations, versions, users, and exabytes of data with which to interact. Written in a highly approachable, practical style, this book is useful for stakeholders, system administrators, developers, designers, content managers, and the anonymous web user in industry, as well as faculty, staff, and students of all levels involved in teaching and learning in information technology. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction: Discovering Where We Are Not....Pages 1-5 Seeing Where We Need to Be....Pages 7-10 Getting There: Landing an Onion on Mars....Pages 11-13 The Necessity of a Sustainable Web Ecosystem....Pages 15-18 The Real Discovery: The Web is Glial....Pages 19-23 Web User Research....Pages 25-32 The Project....Pages 33-35 Project Management....Pages 37-44 Architecture....Pages 45-47 Functionality....Pages 49-58 Image....Pages 59-63 Writing....Pages 65-66 Code....Pages 67-72 Web Hosting....Pages 73-84 Post Launch....Pages 85-89 Education....Pages 91-94 Policy....Pages 95-100 Philosophy of Technology....Pages 101-110 Conclusion....Pages 111-111 Back Matter....Pages 113-117