Standard creativity: creating flexible Web development standards Export

@inproceedings{OsbornElliott2002, abstract = {In the early days of the Web, we became "experts" at developing great looking sites using all of the layout and design codes available to us at the time. However, it quickly became apparent that sacrificing structure for style had created forward compatibility issues and would prevent us from moving forward as the Web grows and tools we use change. Looking at this future, we determined that the only feasible solution was to set Web development standards for our staff. Many organizations develop look-and-feel templates that are used throughout their organization, but with such a wide variety of audiences and customer needs, this approach was not feasible for our situation. We needed something that would allow our staff to maintain a level of consistency throughout all of the Web sites we produce, without losing the ability to be creative and flexible to our customers' wants and needs. We describes how we developed standards that allow staff to keep pace with changing trends, promote effective teaming, and ensure both backward and forward compatibility while maintaining a level of consistency and organizational identity.}, author = {Osborn, S. and Elliott, G.}, booktitle = {Professional Communication Conference, 2002. IPCC 2002. Proceedings. IEEE International}, citeulike-article-id = {3176025}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2002.1049084}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1049084}, doi = {10.1109/IPCC.2002.1049084}, journal = {Professional Communication Conference, 2002. IPCC 2002. Proceedings. IEEE International}, keywords = {web\_standard}, pages = {1--21}, posted-at = {2008-08-31 07:55:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Standard creativity: creating flexible Web development standards}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2002.1049084}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - OsbornElliott2002 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3176025 N2 - In the early days of the Web, we became "experts" at developing great looking sites using all of the layout and design codes available to us at the time. However, it quickly became apparent that sacrificing structure for style had created forward compatibility issues and would prevent us from moving forward as the Web grows and tools we use change. Looking at this future, we determined that the only feasible solution was to set Web development standards for our staff. Many organizations develop look-and-feel templates that are used throughout their organization, but with such a wide variety of audiences and customer needs, this approach was not feasible for our situation. We needed something that would allow our staff to maintain a level of consistency throughout all of the Web sites we produce, without losing the ability to be creative and flexible to our customers' wants and needs. We describes how we developed standards that allow staff to keep pace with changing trends, promote effective teaming, and ensure both backward and forward compatibility while maintaining a level of consistency and organizational identity. JF - Professional Communication Conference, 2002. IPCC 2002. Proceedings. IEEE International EP - 21 TI - Standard creativity: creating flexible Web development standards T2 - Professional Communication Conference, 2002. IPCC 2002. Proceedings. IEEE International SP - 1 KW - web_standard AU - Osborn, S AU - Elliott, G PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2002.1049084 ER -