Design-on-demand or how to create a target-oriented social web-site

Abstract

We describe an informal methodology for developing on-line applications, which is, to some extent, complementary to the Web 2.0 aspects of web development. The presented methodology is suitable for developing low-cost and non-cost web sites targeted at medium-sized communities. We present basic building blocks used in the described strategy. To achieve a better understanding of the discussed concepts we comment on their application during the realization of two web projects. We focus on the role of community-driven development, which is crucial for projects of the discussed type.