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Richard Atterer
Where Web Engineering Tool Support Ends: Building Usable Websites
In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC05), ISBN 1-58113-964-0, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, pages 1684-1688, March 2005

In this paper, two of the currently available Web Engineering solutions (UWE and OO-H) are analysed with regard to the question whether websites created with them and their tools have a high usability. Additionally, the respective models are examined to see whether usability aspects can be expressed with them. In a small case study, an example website is created by converting a model to an implementation manually. Special attention is paid to usability issues regarding both the generated pages and the development process. Subsequently, the manual conversion is compared to a tool-supported process.