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Approaches To Web Site Development For The 21st Century



A presentation on Approaches To Web Site Development For The 21st Century was given at the University of Leeds on 9 July 2001 from 10:00-11:30 am. The session started with coffee at 09:45 am in the Conference Room on level 7 of the Edward Boyle Library.

Abstract

Many Web developers will of heard of XML, RDF, XSL and many other TLAs. But what are they? When will they arrive? Do I really need them? Will I have to throw away my Web site in order to move to a next generation of the Web (as happened with Gopher)? In this seminar Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath, will describe some of the new developments on the Web and the implications for Web site developers.

Slides

Slides
[Powerpoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]

Surveys Of The University Of Leeds Web Site

A number of automated surveys of University of Leeds Web sites were carried out for the seminar:

Servers
The Netcraft service was used to report on the Web servers used in the University of Leeds domain.
Netcraft also gives details on the uptime of the main Web server
Comparison: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers Ariadne Issue 24, June 2000
Comparison: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites Ariadne Issue 25, October 2000
Profiling Institutional Entry Point
The NetMechanic service was used to report on the links, HTML, size, etc for the University of Leeds home page.
The Netmechanic and Bobby services were used to report on the size of the main entry point.
Comparison: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages Ariadne Issue 28, June 2001
Relationships
The Netscape' What's Related service was used to report on the relationships with the University of Leeds Web site.
Comparison: What's Related To My Web Site? Ariadne Issue 27, June 2000
Style of Entry Point
View the University of Leeds entry point.
Comparison: Web tour of UK University entry points
404 Page
View the University of Leeds 404 error page.
Comparison: 404s - What's Missing? Ariadne Issue 20, June 1999
Link Coverage
AltaVista and LinkPopularity were used to report on the number of links to resources on Web servers in the University of Leeds domain.
Nos. of links to Leeds (main Web site) using AltaVista -
Nos. of links to Leeds (all Web sites) using AltaVista
Nos. of links to Leeds (main Web site) - using LinkPopularity
Nos. of links to Leeds (all Web sites) - using LinkPopularity
Comparison: A Survey Of Links to UK University Web Sites Ariadne Issue 23, March 2000
Nos. Of Resources Indexed
AltaVista was used to report on the number of pages indexed.
Nos. of pages on main Web site -
Nos. of pages on all Web sites