A Web 2.0 Empowering Service A Web 2.0 Empowering Service

Since the term “Web 2.0 ” appears, a new generation of Web is coming. There are many articles talking about how to design a Web 2.0 website. However, the traditional Web 1.0 websites are still multitudinous. They do not transform to Web 2.0 as massive as these articles. This is because many of these traditional Web 1.0 website developers have not enough technique or time to rebuild their websites to Web 2.0. Rebuilding a website often takes a lot of efforts. A simple and effective strategy to upgrade their websites is needed. The thesis attempts to provide a flexible framework, Web 2.0 Toolbar, to upgrade websites from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. The Web 2.0 Toolbar combines the original Web 1.0 web page and additional Web 2.0 information together on the fly. Therefore, th