| Gartner's Web Site-ings
Highlights Mobshop.com, Bostondine.com and Cartalk.com |
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STAMFORD, CONN., July 21, 2000 — In its Web Site-ings feature at http://www.gartner.com this week, Gartner Group, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB) revisits the question of whether all of the "three C's" — content, commerce and community — are really baseline requirements for great Web sites. Specifically, this week's Web Site-ings feature uses http://www.mobshop.com, http://www.bostondine.com and http://www.cartalk.com to illustrate the point that, in some cases, sites may not actually need all three C's to produce a truly great Web interaction experience.
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Web Site-ings is a weekly feature that highlights online best practices. The feature, which can be found at Gartner Website-ings, is designed to deliver practical advice to technology, business and new-media executives charged with their Web sites' effectiveness. Sites are evaluated using Gartner's Web Evaluation Tool, which visitors are invited to download at no charge to evaluate their own Web sites' best practices.
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The proprietary Web Evaluation Tool represents a detailed methodology to assess and weigh the many contributing features of good Web sites. Specifically, the tool articulates value-generating elements in site design, site functionality, and the creation of customer value, and offers industry-specific criteria for more than 20 industries. Web Site-ings uses the tool to illustrate good execution of basic Web principles. Three new Web Site-ings are available each week.
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