Opinion ID: 852355
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Heading: World of Websites

Text: We start with a short introduction of the relevant background regarding websites. [3] As befits the subject, we begin by reference to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, which defines a website as a group of World Wide Web pages usually containing hyperlinks to each other and made available online by an individual, company, educational institution, government, or organization. http://www.merriam-webster. com/dictionary/website. [4] It defines the World Wide Web as a part of the Internet accessed through a graphical user interface and containing documents often connected by hyperlinks. http://www. merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worldwideweb. A web page consists of computer programming that is decoded by an Internet browser to show the graphic user interface that ranges from a simple combination of graphics and text to interactive applications. [5] For our purposes, there are essentially two aspects of a website: the content that the pages on a website display and the programming that encodes it in such a way for a browser to interpret. In some web design relationships, the hiring party provides all content while the designer simply translates it into a format appropriate for viewing in the World Wide Web. On other occasions, the hiring party provides a vision and a goal for the site and the designer creates both the content and the programming. The latter characterization seems to fit the facts here, though POA provided some content. The website at issue here was distributed by Gray Loon for free to any Internet user who directed an Internet browser to POA's domain. Piece of America paid Gray Loon to author and to distribute (or host) the website files via its server, making it available to any computer connected through the Internet. Piece of America could have bifurcated these two tasks and hired a third party to host the site or to design it. If it had hired a third company to host the site for distribution over the Internet, it would have had to transfer the files to the other company's servers. Gray Loon could have copied them to a disk and physically delivered it or transferred the files over the Internet using any number of methods. Inasmuch as the information technology industry runs to hundreds of billions of dollars a year in projects, it is quite ordinary that clients and providers often find themselves locked in disputes. The leading source of statistics about the industry, the Standish Group, reports in its 2009 analysis of information technology performance that 32% of engagements result in a timely product billed more or less on budget. [6] Their historic analysis reflects outright cancellation by clients about 20% of the time and projects completed very late or substantially over budget about 50% of the time.