Explain the role of web architecture in website communications

Blog

A  that presents short journal entries in chronological order, newest first, is typically referred to as a "blog" or "weblog." Most blogs emphasize links to other pages and sites, and most entries are short commentaries or even simple one-sentence links to an interesting page somewhere else. Many blogs are concerned with current news events and often provide unabashedly partisan commentary. "Blogging," of course, is the act of writing a blog; those who write blogs are sometimes referred to as "bloggers."

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is Internet- based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid. Cloud Computing allows business individuals and organisations to externalise the digital resources by storing them on a private or public. Examples of resources that can be outsourced:

• Servers providing computing capabilities,
• Solution for storage or archiving
• Software
• Messaging or collaborative services
• Office applications
• CRC Tools

Using Cloud Computing, these resources are supported and made available through private service providers. In the style as SaaS (Software as a Service), a company can directly access these applications via a terminal connected to the internet.

Online application
Web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is hosted in a browser- controlled environment (e.g. a Java applet) or coded in a browser- supported language (such as JavaScript, combined with a browser- rendered markup language like HTML) and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.

Discuss how Web 2.0 methods of information sharing and movement assist website communications. In particular, describe and provide 2 examples of each of the following:

• Blogging
• Wikis and social networks
• Tagging and folksonomies
• Feeds
• Mash-ups

One example of a web 2.0 website is facebook. Facebook is one of the largest social network websites in the world, with millions of people joined up and people still joining. Facebook main purpose is to connect friends together, although many people now use facebook to meet people. Facebook has so much popularity that it often draws controversy as people have control over what they put.

Wikipedia is an example of a web 2.0 website.  Wikipedia is a website that provides information on everything that people are interested in. While there are moderators on Wikipedia, most pages are open for the public to access and change at their own free will. Wikipedia is free to everyone although it does frequently ask for donations. Wikipedia is the biggest web encyclopaedia and has been praised for how quickly the pages get updated after recent news happens. The fact that people are able to access and change information means that the information on the website is not always legitimate.

Feeds

A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed.

RSS feeds are a quick and easy way to get the news that matters most to you as soon as it is published (RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary). These feeds contain headlines, links and descriptions and are updated as the website is updated with new stories.