The aim of this paper is to examine the domain of World Wide Web site development and propose a methodology to assist with this process. Methodologies have both their proselytizers and those who decry the constraints and rigidity of prescriptive frameworks. The methodology presented here is not intended to be a universal panacea for the problems of web development; rather it is hoped it will pr...

The “dot.com” hysteria which sparked fears of a “Web crisis” a decade ago has long subsided and firms established in the 1990’s now have mature development processes in place. This paper presents a timely re-assessment of the state of Web development practices, comparing data gathered in Croatia and Ireland. Given the growth in popularity of “agile” methods in the past few years, a secondary ob...

We report the experiences of semi-professional developers regarding the challenges, tools, and processes within the domain of web application development. The paper summarizes the main problems in web development, characterizes the habits of programmers and concludes with a “developer’s wish list” for improvements to web technologies and tools. The report is based on two independent sources – a...

Usability evaluations should start early in the Web development process and occur repeatedly throughout all stages to ensure the quality of the Web application, not just when the product is completed. This paper presents a Web Usability Model, which is aligned with the SQuaRE standard, to evaluate usability at several stages of a Web development process that follows a ModelDriven Development (M...

In a short period of time, the World Wide Web has had a huge impact on our society and lives. In web sites and web applications, accessibility and usability are essential key requirements. Unfortunately, most web sites are inaccessible to many disabled people and fail to satisfy the most basic standards for accessibility. Many of the barriers people with disabilities face on the Web are complet...

Active user involvement and customer collaboration are essential yet hard to achieve in software development projects. Therefore, tools that effectively support communication and collaboration between customers and developers have a real need. In this paper we describe a requirements management tool, AgileTool, which effectively supports customer collaboration in agile web application developme...

In this paper, we show how one can leverage a Semantic Web application development environment to define an application that is a Semantic Desktop browser called HyperSD. In addition, special wrappers have been defined to allow importing regular desktop objects, such as files, person records, calendar entries, etc... into the semantic desktop accessed through HyperSD.

The development of organisational applications by end users has been widely researched in recent years. It has been established that there are both benefits and risks associated with end user development, particularly in the areas of spreadsheets and databases. Web development tools are enabling a new kind of end user development. The fact that web page creation may impact not only locally but ...

The development of applications by end users has become an integral part of organizational information provision. It has been established that there are both benefits and risks associated with end-user development, particularly in the areas of spreadsheets and databases. Web development tools are enabling a new kind of end user development. The fact that Web page creation may impact not only lo...