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 Rethinking the Datacenter
Sponsored by HP
Today's datacenters need to increase utilization, get control over power and cooling costs, and align with business objectives. Download this eBook to learn about the challenges facing the data center in a world where digital information is growing at a torrid pace and costs are being held in check. Learn more. »
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Putting the Green into IT
Sponsored by HP
Electricity use in data centers is skyrocketing, sending energy bills through the roof, creating environmental concerns and generating negative publicity. "Going Green" means looking to technologies like virtualization, energy-efficient chips and racks, and implementing policies that extend beyond the data center. Learn more. »
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Managing the Modern Network
Sponsored by HP
In a global economy where information crosses the globe in an instant, and where Web-based applications power business, it's more important than ever to ensure your network is safe from threats and optimized to deliver the data your business needs. »
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Evaluating Software as a Service for Your Business
Sponsored by Webroot
Is Software as a Service just hype, or is something really going on here? See if your company can benefit as SaaS tries to change the face of the enterprise.
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Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Good Enough?
Sponsored by HP
Preparing for a disaster is more often than not part of the storage planning process, and it is one of the most difficult tasks, since it includes local hardware and software, networking equipment, and a test plan. Learn how to get disaster recovery right. »
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Resource Location
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Location is about locating or discovering information on
the web, and includes
robots,
surfing,
indexing,
searching,
navigation,
classification,
reference catalogs,
resource discovery,
information systems,
addressing, e.g. URLs (Uniform Resource Locator),
maximising your own 'findability' (e.g. site promotion),
..etc..
and other concepts associated with resource discovery.
How to find, and be found.. Articles on promotion and optimising
for the search engines, and a single-page interface to search engines
specifically for web development topics such as HTML, Java, etc.
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Navigation at The WDVL
We illustrate several navigation techniques, specifically those that
are implemented here at The WDVL.
Search The WDVL
Implemented with the
ICE Search engine.
Use keywords connected with "and" and "or".
Metasearchers
These are interfaces to several search engines that send your query
to several simultaneously, and, typically, collate the results.
Some people misuse the term to indicate a collection of individual
search engine interfaces - they don't actually submit to several
at once.
Site Maps
Find your way around this site in 2- or 3-dimensions.
The Meta-Meta Page
META tags are an important aid to resource classification and discovery.
This page points to several resources concerning META tagging, and other
aspects that are 'meta' to META.
How in the World (Wide Web) will
They Find Me?
By some estimates there may be as many as 50 million web pages on the
Internet.. How can you maximise the chances of being found?
In case you haven't realised it yet - there is NO secret method
for guaranteeing that your page comes top in the search results.
Find out why, and what you can do to at least not come bottom..
The Web Librarian
I wrote this at the beginning of the year and haven't done much with it
since then. Well it would be nice if the W3C or some other
organisation would fund the proposal,
but while we're waiting take a look at
Web Librarian Puts Tools In Designers' Hands
by Neil deMause,
an article on the Web Week
site, about The WDVL.
The Library of Web Development
Over 2,000 annotated pointers to web development resources.
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Rethinking the Datacenter
Putting the Green into IT
Managing the Modern Network
Evaluating Software as a Service for Your Business
Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Good Enough?