Interactive Web Development (CIS 311)

Web analytics and You {0}

In this article, they discuss about how a web analytics dash board would be built to help improve web performance.  They do a good job of introducing the concept of web analytics if you have never heard of it before and its importance, along with a skeleton of an explanation of what it is. The article is a [...]

Steps for Optimal Social Intelligence Design {0}

This article, entitled “Social Intelligence Design for the Web,” written by Toyoaki Nishida, first goes into the steps that the author feels are necessary for creating a successfully designed intelligent social network. As described in the article, the primary concerns when designing an intelligent social web application are “establishing a social context, embodied conversational agents, [...]

Values of Web Analytics {1}

Summary “Learning and development organizations historically have borrowed models for measuring learning from an increasingly archaic education system. The learning profession today is no different-it continues to focus on metrics that provide a binary assessment of learning in the form of pass-fail, complete-incomplete, and started-in progress. Today our analytics are becoming irrelevant and misleading as [...]

Balance between usability and aesthetics {2}

The article that I choose talks about the importance of aesthetics and usability in determining the success of the website. Over the past years we have progressively leaned towards developing an aesthetically pleasing website as opposed to the usability aspect. Both aspects need to be addressed to form a good website, but with a lot [...]

UI Design Ideas {1}

The idea of this article was to get a understanding of the UI Design Process. It gives an idea to 10 basic ideas that do seem crucial for Internet design especially becuase as I was reading you do not want to have a web page that is to busy that people would get distracted from [...]

Cloud Security {2}

Onsite resources are not the only ones in need of protection anymore. Every day new methods of cloud computing are being introduced and adopted by companies of all sizes, all over the world. That’s the beauty of the cloud. You can access it from just about anywhere but so can the bad guys. The article [...]

Twitter Web Analytics and You {4}

Web Analytics is the measurements, collections, analysis and reporting of understand and optimizing web usage. With that said, they provide a significant role in an e-business and the amount of traffic they receive. Twitter, one of the most popular and largest social media sites, has recently announced a new Web Analytics service that will evidently [...]

The New Wave: HTML 5 {4}

Evans Data, a company that specializes in surveys, was able to recently discover that over 75% of web developers are using and prefer HTML 5. Even though this is common knowledge, it is surprising as HTML 5 standard is still a work in progress (Taft, 2012). The data that Evans was able to attain was [...]

The Correct Way to Web Analysis {2}

The author of this journal points out the fact that websites acts as a great tool for organizations the opportunity to learn more about interests of customers. It is done so by tracking visitors’ item-by-item click histories(clickstream), and cookies. The author suggested that following the few steps that’s listed in the article will help websites [...]

differences with html5 {5}

the article that i read was about html5 and the benefits of using it versus html. The article talks about all the new tags that html5 uses and what they can do for you as a web developer. First off the article talks about how if your website works fine and html allows you to [...]

Designers coveted by Silicon Valley {0}

In the article, Segall explains the current head hunting trends of technology companies. Their business strategy has turned to creating intuitive applications in order to gain customers. To achieve their goal, they need interface designers and information architects or basically web designers with a little bit of programming, database and information management (handsome_bigfella, 10/07). Among [...]

UML Diagram for Rookie {1}

A picture worth a thousand words, but it worth way more than that when creating a UML Diagram. UML is a graphical modeling language, and it represents a class as a rectangle with the class name inside. I usually think of it as a box full of stuff.  The author in this article, talks about [...]

UI Testing With Real Users {2}

One key aspect to user-interface design is how to run a user test. A user test is to show the developer how user friendly your design is. A user test should always involve users with no software skills whatsoever. This way the feedback that is given to the developer will be much more valuable, and [...]

Cloud to replace the Personal Computer {0}

With the emergence of personal cloud services such as Google’s Play, Apple’s iCloud, and Microsoft’s SkyDrive, cloud computing is set to replace personal computing sooner rather than later. The research firm, Gartner, believes that cloud computing will over take the personal computer in 2014. The next generation computer operating systems are already implementing heavily on [...]

SSA to upgrade from Google Analytics {2}

This article talks about how the Social Security Administration wants to improve its website and how they monitor the traffic that comes through its website. The officials at SSA is looking to upgrade its web analytics tool, and to reduce costs and gain support services that can be applied across SSA’s web properties. The Social [...]

UML structure {5}

The article that I read for this week talks about difference type of UML diagrams. However, the author concentrates more about characteristic of transformation operation. There are nine types of UML diagrams which are class diagram, sequence, collaboration, state chart, activity, object, component, deployment, and use case diagram. Transformation operation will take UML diagrams as [...]

Insightful Web Intelligence ins and outs article {2}

The article I read had to do with Web Intelligence or WI, which is an the ability of the internet to do various web analytic tasks for the purposes of gathering information for many web bases applications. Web Intelligence takes advantage of Artificial intelligence(AI) to do many analytic tasks from examining how websites are visited [...]

New Google Overhaul To Bring Web into Next Generation. {3}

Just when many of us thought that the Google search engine could not ever improve itself, Google announced that is exactly what it is going to attempt.  As all of us have used Google, I am sure that we have all noticed that using a typical Google search returns links based on key words that [...]

Search Engine Optimization Techniquies {4}

The author talks about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and its influence on Page Interest. SEO can be observed from 4 aspects, structure optimization, keyword optimization, content optimization and link optimization. According to author SEO is the process of increasing the volume and quality of traffic to a website through the use of search engines. There [...]

HP’s new cloud computing service {0}

For this weeks topic of ‘Cloud Computing’ I choose an article written on March 9th that talks about Hewlett-Packard offering a new cloud service that is supposed to compete with Amazon and Google’s Web Services.  According to the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP’s cloud services they are trying to create a web [...]