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Gartner's Web Site-ings Highlights www.opensecrets.org, wwwIMDb.com, and www.iSalvage.com
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STAMFORD, CONN., August 4, 2000 —The Gartner Group, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB) Web Site-ings feature at www.gartner.com this week highlights www.opensecrets.org, www.IMDb.com and www.iSalvage.com, to illustrate how three database-driven Web sites use fundamental usability principles to effectively fulfill complex tasks. Web Site-ings is a weekly feature that highlights online best practices. The feature can be found at Web Site-ings.
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Web Site-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. Site visitors are invited to download Gartner's Web Evaluation Tool 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 creating customer value, and offers industry-specific criteria for more than 20 industries. Web Site-ings uses the tool to illustrate good executions of basic Web principles. Three new Web Site-ings are available each week.
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