Websites were retrospectively analysed to study the effects that technological advances in web design have had on accessibility for persons with disabilities. A random sample of general websites and a convenience sample of US government websites were studied and compared for the years 1997 – 2002. Web accessibility barrier (WAB) and complexity scores were calculated. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA...

Many organizations envision web services as an enabling component of Internet-scale computing. A final vision of web services is to realize a dynamic environment that identifies, composes and executes web services in response to a query. This vision shapes the design and implementation of Proteus. In addition to describing Proteus’ novel components, this paper outlines its initial system design.

The Advanced Technical School from Novi Sad set up a completely new study group for web design in 2004. The paper explains its organization and gives course descriptions. When it was established, there were not many similar groups in the world exclusively dealing with web design, whose programs could serve as role models, hence the curriculum and syllabus had to be based on our own experience. ...

Since the beginning of the 90's, the phenomenal growth of Internet was supported by the power given to the authors to carry out and distribute documents to a broad audience. These documents, presented in Web pages and grouped into coherent presentations, are usually stored in individual files. The management of their contents then becomes a problem. In this paper, we propose a metamodel for web...

We suggest that diversity and changes in the visual design of web pages exhibit trend-like characteristics. We begin with a survey of the fashion and trends literature to clarify these terms and to relate them to the domain of web design. Based on freely available online archival data we assembled a website design trend library that includes 42 trends encompassing the period from the mid-1990s ...

The web offers rich visual content, and for many web designers it is the visual domain that dominates their practice. Yet sound, music and audio all play a significant role in the human sensory systems, in some cases sound can be more powerful, especially to emotionally influence viewers. This paper looks at the relationship between audio and visual elements in web content. In particular lookin...

EEective web presence is for many companies indispensable for their success to the global market. In recent years, several methods have been developed for measuring and improving the eeectiveness of commercial sites. However, they mostly concentrate on web page design and on access analysis. In this study, we propose a methodology of assessing the quality of a web site in turning its users into...

A web site that appeals to all audiences is the “holy grail” of developers, but is not likely to be found. Therefore, organisations must decide what groups of users they want to target and gain a thorough knowledge of their needs and preferences. In this pilot study, we grouped users according to their purpose for using the Web and examined their preferences for web design features. We found th...

Responsive design is a major trend in web development to cater for the diversity of devices used for web browsing. However, applying responsive design to existing web sites often involves major reengineering due to the underlying fluid grid concept. Moreover, applications of responsive design are currently limited to desktop-to-mobile adaptation. This tutorial introduces the main ideas behind r...