Interaktiv Webb 2.0 : Annonseringssystem för www.djurplatsen.se

Sammanfattning: Web 2.0 represents the next generation of creating interactive applications on the Web. The purpose of this thesis was to develop a service tailored to Web 2.0 technology, where users can post ads for free. The platform is an advertising system specially designed for animals. Surveys and interviews have been done; the result is that today’s advertising services on the Internet are not interactive and user-friendly. The users have the possibility to adapt different part of the system to their needs, such as choice of themes. Moreover, the system is prepared to support different languages. The paper compares the different server-side languages, databases, and various AJAX-technologies that can be applied in the Web application. The developed prototype is functional, but incomplete. It can be found on the Web at www.djurplatsen.se. The buying section is not yet in, and language support is not applied to all pages. A survey has been done showing that the result of the developed advertiser system indicates that it is interactive and user-friendly comparing to today’s advertising services. On the server side, PHP has been used as the programming language and MySQL as the database. The system is tailored to the most popular browsers available on the market so that the system always looks the same regardless of which browser is used. The essay concludes with a discussion of the problems encountered during the work especially problems that cropped up with the different browsers. Different types of ideas are also mentioned which can be applied in the continued development of the prototype.