91.520-Internet and Web Systems Project
Tip-of-the-Day
91.520-Internet and Web Systems
(Last updated: October 1, 1998.)
Suppose you are an expert in something, and you want to provide tips
to people who need help in that topic. You set up a web site where
every day a different tip on the topic appears. Better even, perhaps
you can be smart enough to detect the visitor and provide him/her a
new tip every time s/he visits your site, even in the same day. The
site would be boring if a visitor got repeated tips. You have to keep
it interesting, never boring!
Now think as a tool maker. If you could create a tool that would build
the entire structure around a site like this, the information provider
will only
have to populate a database of some sort with the collection of
knowledge s/he has (the "tips") and will be all set.
In this project you can take two routes:
- The simpler route: Create a "tip-of-the-day" site on a
favorite topic of yours.
- More interesting (and complicated): Create a tool that
allows anybody to create a "tip-of-the-day" site on whatever topics
s/he would like to, easily.
Copyright © 1998
Dr. Haim Levkowitz Associate Professor,
UMass Lowell Department of Computer Science
Last updated: by
haim@cs.uml.edu