Making It Simple In Cyberspace

Remote controls complicated life for television executives, who suddenly had to contend with a phenomenon known as channel surfing.

Internet barons, and would-be barons, face the same dilemma: How to hold surfers who can skip to the next site in the blink of an eye.

Now, the art of Web page design is being reduced to a science as technicians attempt to formalize some design principles.

“People don’t read the Web, they browse, so you really need to build pages that use minimalist writing and open space,” one expert says.

Boston Globe

What’s in a name?

The once-whimsical task of naming Internet Web sites has turned serious as burgeoning e-commerce has raised the stakes. Companies and regulators continue to squabble over who controls the assignment of Internet names, and trademark holders are losing patience.

But the threat of “cybersquatting” could bring the issue to a head, and soon.

Dallas Morning News