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Web Focus: The Web on Your TV

editor — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room.

The potential for use of television for accessing Web resources has been suggested for a number of years without having any significant impact. However the growth in use of digital TV technologies may provide another opportunity for accessing Web and other networked resources from the comfort of your living room.

This article introduces the Netgem i-Player digital TV player and describes the implications for Web developers if such devices grow in popularity.

WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

It has been said that those who ignore history, are condemned to repeat it. In the Web world we can be so excited by new developments that we may forget approaches we have taken in the past and fail to learn from our mistakes. This article describes how the WayBack Machine [1] was used to look at the history of UK University Web sites.

Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points

editor — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) came into effect on 1 ^st September 2002. The Act removes the previous exemption of education from the Disability Discrimination Act (1995), ensuring that discrimination against disabled students will be unlawful. Institutions will incur additional responsibilities in 2003, with the final sections of legislation coming into effect in 2005 [1].

Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

editor — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:00:00 +0000

Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

Is your University home page big, bold and brassy? Is it colourful and interactive, making use of new technologies in order to stand out from the crowd? Or is it mean and lean, with a simple design providing rapid download times and universal access?

This survey of the size of the entry points for UK University and College entry points seeks an answer to these questions.

Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV

editor — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC.

What's the future for Web browsing? Is it the PC running some flavour of MS Windows?. Will the Linux platform take off on the desktop? Or will the Macintosh come back into fashion?

Many statistics on browser usage would suggest that the MS Windows platform has won the battle. The proportion of platforms illustrated in Figure 1 (which shows accesses to the Cultivate Interactive by graphical browsers) is probably not too untypical (information available at [1]).

Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

editor — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

This issue of Ariadne has the theme of eLib Projects. It is therefore timely for the regular WebWatch column to survey eLib project Web sites.

The aim of the survey is to use a number of Web-based tools to provide information on the entry points for eLib project Web sites and the Web sites themselves. The findings may be of interest to the eLib projects themselves and users of eLib projects. Perhaps more importantly, the findings may be of interest to new JISC-funded programmes.

Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop

editor — Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps."

The "Institutional Web Management: The Next Steps" workshop took place at Goldsmiths College, London on 7-9 September 1999. This was the third annual event for institutional web managers which has been organised by UK Web Focus. The first workshop was held over 2 day (16/17 July 1997) at Kings College London. As described in the workshop report published in Ariadne [1] the event attracted a total of 95 participants. The workshop provided a valuable opportunity for web editors to meet their peers at other institutions and compare experiences.