The website referenced in the text book, now redirects users to www.w3.org.

1)      W3c

a.       The W3c got started back in October 1994, by Tim burners-lee the founder of the World Wide Web.  The aims of the W3c are to ensure that everybody has access to the latest communication and commerce opportunities. The w3c aims to standardize web technologies.

b.      It seems anyone is able to Join the consortium, if they are willing to pay the fees, if the your organisation, is a profit making organization and has annual gross revenue greater than or equal to 51,000,000 EUR, then the fees are 68,000 EUR, for all other organizations the fees are 7800 EUR.

c.       The W3c homepage does not list any technologies, it issues updated standards for technologies, but technology from the site as a whole is HTML &  CSS, three facts for these are:

                                                               i.      With HTML, you can publish online documents using tables, text, lists and photos.

                                                             ii.      Include spread-sheets, sound clips, video clips directly in your document.

                                                            iii.      HTML provides the structure to the web page; the CSS provide the visual and aural layout.

2)      The Internet Society

a.       The Internet society was formed in 1992, to provide leadership in internet related standards, education and policy. The internet society offers internet related incentives around the world, and as helped in the enablement of developing world countries, training programmes to help people set up internet connections and networks.

b.      The Internet society England Chapter is my personally closet chapter (http://www.isoc-e.org/). A recent event this chapter offered was The Internet revolution: Opportunities, threats and challenges to your business - ignore it at your peril! – This conference was highlighting the health of the internet, and the main theme being, how will the internet look in ten years?

c.       Anyone can join the internet society, you can join as a Global member for free, or you can join as a sustaining member for 75 US Dollars. Benefits of being a sustaining member is that once 500 members have joined together, they can elect their own ISOC board of trustee’s member. I would not recommend a new developer joining the Internet society, as its information is more relevant to Project managers or Business leaders.

3)      World Organisation of webmasters

a.       Anyone can join WOW, by visiting their website at: http://webprofessionals.org/join/. Membership prices range from 29 USD for a student or to 69 USD for an individual; prices for organisation are not listed publicly.

b.      An upcoming event is the IT Innovation summit, which seeks to bring IT professionals, industry leaders and keynote speakers. One of the highlights of the event is a discussion into whether innovation creates or destroys jobs. I think as a whole, I would like to attend, as one of guests is the former chief technology officers for Cisco Systems.

c.       Three ways that WOW could help progress my career as a programmer are;

                                                               i.      WOW helps to keep you abreast of changing web technologies.

                                                             ii.      They get you in contact with other IT webmasters in your area or in your area of expertise.

                                                            iii.      They offer training courses varying from short courses to online resources.