WEBSITES :
ICANN – http://www.icann.org/
ICANN is an international orgnization that is designed to keep the internet secure and reliable. ICANN coordinates the names or numbers that makes a web address unique. The ICANN website discusses current news and general information. The website also includes information about the structure and includes a variety of resources. Finally in terms of design, this website sucked. Its layout is very confusing.
Web Stats –
Internet Traffic Report – http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
This website shows the current flow of data around the world.
Internet World Stats – http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
This website is very colorful and includes very helpful graphs and charts. The purpose of this website is to give the statistics on world internet usage and population statisitcs. The site also include additional internet information sources and usage statistics.
CAIDA Internet Infrastructure – http://www.caida.org/home/
CAIDA stands for Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis. The purpose of this site is to create cooperation between countries in regulating internet traffic.
Pew (non-profit research center) – http://pewresearch.org/
This website was developed to give numbers, facts, stats on all types of world topics such as voting, war and etc. I did find a graph on internet trends such as whether people use broadband or internet penetration. This website had a lot of information and I liked the format of the site. It was easy to navigate.
Nielson Net Ratings (private research center) – http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/
This site allows businesses or other companies to monitor their sites traffic and audience.
USF –
USF Web Style Guidelines http://usfweb2.usf.edu/ur/webadmin/webguide.html
This web page gave an error message that it could not be found. It was either no longer available or had been moved. I would have to contact the webmaster in order to find the location of this page.
Readings:
Creating Web Sites:
Chapter 5: This chapter goes into more detail about HTML text tags. A web developer has to know the basic tags to help structure their web page. There are two basic tags. They are logical tags and physical tags. Logical tags describe the content and physical tags are about formatting. The text tags are important because they help structure your text that will be shown on your web page. This chapter is very useful to me as i am developing my pages.
Chapter 6: This chapters covers the topic on style sheets. Style sheets are complicated because they are filled with rules. There are three types of style sheets; they are external, internal or inline. These three types of style sheets to me varies in levels of difficulty in use. The style sheet is important because it brings the web page to life because it adds the colors, fonts, borders and etc. to the pages. I found this chapter to be very overwhelming.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design:
Chapter 1- This chapter walks you through the best ways to layout your web page. It inludes a section on composition as well. I liked this chapter because it listed additional websites for reference. Also, it gave me a good idea on how I wanted to design/ layout my web pages.