TUTORIAL SESSION

Web Design Based on Crawler Visibility, Human Usability and Logic Flow

Prof. Melius Weideman
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
melius@gmail.com

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Melius Weideman is currently a Head of Department in the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town.
After working in the electronics and computer industry, he joined the academe in 1984. His research interests were initially focussed on computer viruses, but after 1994 the Internet, and specifically search engines started fascinating him.
He graduated with a Doctorate in Information Science from the University of Cape Town in 2001, and has managed to find a way to assist students in finding study-related material easily through the correct application of search engine technology. Numerous of his publications have seen the light since then on topics including website visibility and usability, search engines and information retrieval.
Melius has a strong international presence, and has delivered a number of guest lectures over the years. These include those at two of the world's top ten universities: Oxford in the UK and Columbia in the USA. Others include:

• Wolverhampton, Hull and Durham Universities (all UK),
• Munich University of Technology, Free University of Amsterdam, University of Frankfurt, University of Maribor (Slovenia) and
• United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

During 2007 he was chosen from 40 international applicants to become the first Fellow at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. In mid-2008 he spent three months teaching at this university. Campus02, in Graz, Austria invited him to do two workshop series on Internet Marketing through Websites in 2008. He was appointed as an Associate Professor in 2004, and a full Professor at CPUT in 2008. He also actively manages two websites: one to support this book (www.book-visibility.com), and another to make research funding and resource information easily available to colleagues and students (www.mwe.co.za).
Melius lives in Protea Valley near Cape Town, enjoys spending time with his family and for recreation cycles, reads and dines out. He has completed four Double Centuries and 15 Argus Cycle Tours to date, plus numerous shorter fun rides.

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