Design-on-demand or how to create a target-oriented social web-site

TL;DR

The paper introduces an informal, community-driven methodology for designing targeted online applications suitable for medium-sized communities, emphasizing low-cost development and practical implementation insights.

Contribution

It presents a novel informal methodology tailored for creating community-focused web applications, highlighting basic building blocks and real-world project applications.

Findings

Community-driven development is crucial for project success.

The methodology enables low-cost, targeted web site creation.

Practical application demonstrated through two web projects.

Abstract

We describe an informal methodology for developing on-line applications, which is, to some extent, complementary to the Web 2.0 aspects of web development. The presented methodology is suitable for developing low-cost and non-cost web sites targeted at medium-sized communities. We present basic building blocks used in the described strategy. To achieve a better understanding of the discussed concepts we comment on their application during the realization of two web projects. We focus on the role of community-driven development, which is crucial for projects of the discussed type.