Crisis on the World Wide Web: A Library Website Model Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) October 7, 2004

Create a website library. The Internet is the largest library in the world. Why not adopt Library of Congress Classification standards for organizing websites? Think of web pages as books.

(PRWEB) October 9, 2004 -- CancerSupportiveCare.com users kept getting lost, despite the site's adherence to Internet navigation conventions. So, the site's design team set about creating a new navigational system. Webmaster Alexandra Andrews believes this system could cure the design chaos that plagues the World Wide Web. How many times have you heard these quotes, "Is the information on this web page credible? Who wrote it? When was it written? Is the information current?"

The Cancer Supportive Care site developers decided to adopt a new way of organizing Web pages to address the above problems. The Internet is the largest library in the world. Why not adopt Library of Congress (LOC) Classification standards for organizing websites?

The site team wrote a searchable database -- using SuSE Linux, MySQL and PHP -- that brings up the page, the title, authors, the date the page appeared and the date the page was updated. The site map is a flat HTML page organized using LOC classification with descriptions similar to the old library card catalog model.

The 20th century crusade to conquer cancer has brought many new advances in technology, research, new therapies, and to lesser extent supportive care. Based on the premise, worldwide Internet cancer supportive care offers pertinent information tailored to the unique needs and benefits of the seeker, www.cancersupportivecare.com was created in May of 1999. In our knowledge seeking society, the ability to use a personal computer is essential in both the professional and private lives of millions of people around the world.

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