In this 8 part series, we explore how we architect great websites. Here we outline the seven building blocks of a website and provide links to each article describing them in more detail.

“The internet now plays a critical role in most consumers’ decisions to purchase or hire a service,” said Rodger Armstrong, from Easily.co.uk. “It’s great to see that small businesses and tradesmen are increasingly realising that having a professional website is vital to their business.

Does Open Source mean free? Just because you can download something for free doesn’t mean that it actually is “free”. As the old saying goes – “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”. Or is there?

July 2005 Web Server Survey (Netcraft)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) — An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said.