Report Overview

The State Of Web Development 2006/2007

About The Team Behind The Report

The State Of Web Development 2006/2007 is a joint production by SitePoint and Ektron.

The following people worked towards its creation:

David Aponovich

David Aponovich is Ektron's director of marketing and he drives a range of initiatives to increase awareness and adoption of Ektron's web content management software. He also writes the WebInsights blog on Ektron.com.

Lachlan Donald

Lachlan Donald is the lead developer for SitePoint's web development team, which is responsible for building and deploying solutions for businesses. He works on a daily basis with dynamic languages on a variety of platforms, and specializes in building accessible content management applications.

Nick Langmaid

Nick is the principal consultant at Solution Space, and specializes in requirements management and software system design. In addition to working with the SitePoint team, Nick is currently working with one of Australia’s largest companies to use web technologies to extend and modernize their retail point-of-sale operations.

Matthew Magain

Matthew has worked as a consultant for IBM's Business Consulting Services, a freelance web developer, and an English teacher in Japan. Since joining SitePoint as a technical editor he has edited several books, including Ian Lloyd's Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, commonly accepted as the best beginner's web design book on the market.

Ian Muir

Ian Muir is Ektron's go-to web guy. A web developer by trade, he is also a web content management and Ektron CMS400.NET evangelist. Ian develops and teaches Ektron's Certified Developer Training Program, works with customers and partners deploying web sites, and cultivates the company’s growing user community.

Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank is the technical director of SitePoint, and oversees all of its technical publications - books, articles, newsletters, and blogs. He has written over 50 articles for SitePoint, but is best known for his book, Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL.

About SitePoint

SitePoint is a fast-growing online media company and information provider targeting the web professional market - specifically web developers and designers.

SitePoint's web site, sitepoint.com, is currently ranked as the number one web site in the world in the "internet marketing / news & media" category - and in the top 300 web sites globally - by Alexa.com. sitepoint.com has a daily reach comparable to web sites operated by many mainstream media corporations.

SitePoint's Forums boast more than 135,000 registered users. Its newsletters mail to half a million subscribers every month. The company has over 70,000 customers in 174 countries, and its sample products are enjoyed by 620,000 registered users.

The company has five major revenue streams: advertising and sponsorship, content-based products both online and in retail, software, and more recently, streaming video subscriptions, classified listings, and industry reports.

About Ektron

Ektron was founded in 1998, and has since established itself as a technology and market leader in web content management software and web authoring tools with its CMS400.NET and eWebEditPro product lines. Along the way, Ektron's software has empowered tens of thousands of web professionals to harness the Web as an effective platform for communication and interaction. Ektron's web content management and authoring solutions are affordable for any organization and simple enough for anyone to use, yet offer webmasters, designers, and developers all the tools they need to create, deploy, and manage interactive web, intranet, and extranet sites in one platform. With Ektron CMS400.NET, companies can do what they want on the Web: develop rich sites for personal, two-way communication with visitors; build community through memberships, blogs, and forums; and attract more repeat visits using RSS feeds and web alerts in order to increase business opportunities. An open API allows for easy customization and extension.

Ektron is based in Amherst, NH, and has more than 15,000 customer implementations worldwide, including Unilever, Intel, and Pfizer.

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