Pattern Language For The Web

This is the starting page for a pattern language for the web. I'm jump-starting this, but am hoping it will take on a life of its own, in the manner of the Timeless Wiki Way... -- RonaldHayden

Some thoughts:

• Exploring the web should be a mind-expanding, exhilarating experience.
• Each website should contribute a piece of this experience.
• A web pattern language, properly derived, should lead people to naturally create such websites and communities of websites.
• No website is an island. Web patterns should explore individual websites and how websites can work together to provide a complete experience.
• RobertOrenstein has done some work on an HTML pattern language at
  • http://www.anamorph.com/docs/patterns/default.html ( BrokenLink )
• Another site that could be mined for web-related patterns is JakobNielsen's Alertbox
  • http://www.nngroup.com/articles/alertbox-200/

To differentiate the web patterns from the programming patterns here:

• It would be good to list the web-based patterns on this page (or on another page dedicated to that purpose).
• We should probably precede the pattern names with 'Web'. So if I were doing this page from scratch, it would be 'WebPatternLanguage'.

Now to start:

• WebKnownAuthor
• WebUniqueContent
• WebEvolvingContent

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Are web patterns so different from programming patterns that they need to be segregated by naming convention? Probably not

Definitely so!