In this paper we propose and test a model of the stages through which firm websites become more advanced. The advancement of a website is reflected in the goals firms pursue with it. Since websites are used by customers during their decision process, we derive the website goals from the customer service life cycle. The concept of website advancement stages assumes that the website goals form on...

There has been a recent development and explosion of interest among academicians across a wide range of disciplines in the use of virtual Class room. Utilization of the virtual class room as a laboratory experimentation for teaching and learning has increased significantly in recent years as development tools for web based applications have become easier to use and computers have become more ca...

This chapter addresses issues, alternatives, and best practices for prototyping in Web development. The chapter’s primary objective is to provide a clear and concise overview of key concepts and best practices for practitioners and students, as well as other audiences. The chapter focuses on graphical user interface (UI) prototyping for Web development, but many of the principles apply to non-U...

Since online Semantic Web applications are based on existing Web infrastructure, developing these applications could leverage experiences with and infrastructure of existing frameworks. These frameworks need to be extended to deal with the different nature of Semantic Web data. We introduce several extensions to the Ruby on Rails Web development framework to support Semantic Web application dev...

The future Internet is expected to be composed of a mesh of interoperable web services accessible from all over the web. This approach has not yet caught on since global user-service interaction is still an open issue. This paper states one vision with regard to next-generation front-end Web 2.0 technology that will enable integrated access to services, contents and things in the future Interne...

Web application development frameworks like the Java Server Pages framework (JSP), provide web applications with essential functions such as maintaining state information across the application and access control. In the fast paced world of web applications, new frameworks are introduced and old ones are updated frequently. A framework is chosen during the initial phases of the project and chan...