Web Administration, Design, and Development

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Web Administration, Design, and Development

Universal Design and the Web: Strategies and Techniques

October 20, 2004 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference

Universal Web design is the practice of designing and developing Web content that is accessible to the broadest possible audience, including people with disabilities. This presentation will provide…

Flash in the Pan or Around for the Long Haul? Assessing Macromedia's Flash Technology.

January 1, 2004

This article covers issues concerning Macromedia's Flash Technology usability, access, and preservation. This article covers issues concerning Mac…

Benefits of Web Standards

January 1, 2004

Adopting Web standards can minimize development time, extract presentation of Web pages from the content, reduce file sizes to minimize bandwidth, create CSS printer friendly pages, and offer great…

High-Tech, High-Touch Web Site Interfaces: Colors, Multimedia, and VoiceXML

January 1, 2004

As new technology enters daily life faster and deeper, people increasingly need to "feel" human. In this context, the proper analysis and correct use of human characteristics in Web site …

Web-Enabled Databases for Plain Folk, in UM.SiteMaker

January 1, 2004

Databases shared through Web interfaces can be powerful tools, although creation of such databases generally requires skills far beyond those possessed by average students, faculty, and staff. The …

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Two Years After Startup

January 1, 2004

In 2001, Olin College presented a session on "If I Could Start from Scratch" at NERCOMP. Now that the campus has been built and is occupied, how do our infrastructure and services design …

Michael Kappeler

Web UI Specialist

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

UNITED STATES

Web Performance Tuning: A Case Study

January 1, 2004

Web systems usually include multiple components working together. In a production environment, it is crucial to maintain systems' performance at a satisfactory level. A systematic approach to …

Beyond the Bottom Line: Contract Web Development in Higher Education

January 1, 2003

By forming an internal contract Web development unit (KeyBridge) that provides professional quality Web services, Georgetown has proven that blending university and private-sector business practice…

Implementing a Usability Lab for Web Development and Academic Stakeholders

January 1, 2003

Usability evaluation is critical to the process of designing self-service Web applications, which must be easy to use without training. We will describe how the University of Minnesota performs usa…