Sunday, January 6, 2008

Readings Week 4 For RIT737

The Web Robots Pages

Web Robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders), are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Search engines such as Google use them to index the web content, spammers use them to scan for email addresses, and they have many other uses.

/robots.txt is, and how to use

Why should I make my web site more accessible? How can I make my web site more accessible?
How do users actually view your website?

Readings on Usability and Accessibility

  1. CNN Article on Web Accessibility
  2. "How we really use the Web," a chapter from Steve Krug's wonderful book, Don't Make Me Think!
  3. Jakob Nielsen's "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003" and "Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines"

4 comments:

Tatyana 737 said...

So i was curious why some people had people.rit.edu/username instead www.rit.edu/~username. Here is the link to the ITS website: https://people.rit.edu/people/whatsnew.php
,apparently we are in the process of migrating from grace to gibson( since Nov!). This is most exciting: "server ...comes with up-to-date versions of Apache, PHP, and Perl"

MANISH said...

Hi Professor;
I have posted my thoughts for the poem and the link is My Poem.Hope you will like it.

MANISH said...

Professor,
Please edit my new blog page in your record as I post all my assignment work over there,so as to avoid confusion later.The URL is http://manishsblogpage.blogspot.com/
Sorry for the inconvenience.

MiaMMM said...

Prof-
Do we need to post here to let you know when we've completed exercises, or should this area be for posting comments about your blog and the readings you refer to?