Website Trends
Task (AIT3B Investigation)
Research
Prepare a 3 column document (landscape orientation) presenting your findings about cutting-edge internet technologies. Your research must cover the technologies listed below. Try to add to the list if possible. Your research documentment should have the following three columns:
- URL
- Screenshot/picture
- Notes (this must be in your own words, avoid “copy & paste”)
Report
With reference to the list below, select a range of online technologies and explain how they might be used to enhance a business website.
- Online chat
- Social networking
- Online video
- Blogging
- RSS
- VOIP
- Video conferencing
- Mobile internet
Useful Links
- Social Networking Can Be Risky (an article by the web guru Jakob Nielsen)
Some Examples
Some Internet History
- Originally websites just displayed text using the ASCII system (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). The most up-to-date version is referred to as UTF-8. Basically each letter has a telegraph style code based on binary (zeros & ones).
- Later on static graphics appeared followed by today’s emphasis on multimedia and interactive websites.
- The ancestor of today’s internet appeared in the 1960s. It was a joint project of the United States Department of Defence and a few American universities. It was known as the ARPANET.