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Web Site Management Approaches
Challenges
- Versioning - defining a process for incrementing from one version
to another and for retaining copies of past versions as necessary to
meet record keeping requirements.
- Backup - Routinely capturing copies of files for retrieval
in the event of human error or equipment failure.
- Consistent look and feel - Efficently managing design elements
to give the site a uniform appearance and functionality.
- Roles and Responsibilities - Who does what, who do you call
when something needs doing, when do you do things?
1. All Files On Server
- Basically just a set of HTML files on a server with links among the
pages.
- Maintained by logging into the server account and editing the files
on site.
2. All Files On Server With Shared Templates
- To create uniformity among the pages, a set of include files contain
pieces of HTML that are maintained as separate files and included into
appropriate places in the pages.
- Includes files (also called server-side includes) can be used to provide
basic page layouts that are maintained by a design person independent
of the process of developing page content.
- This is the approach used to create much of the UW Home Page site
(http://www.washington.edu)
3. All Files On Server, Using Server-side Database
- Where portions of pages are actively changing, such as data, a database
can be used to maintain the information. When a page is called, the
information for that page is retrieved from the database and inserted
into the page on the fly.
4. Desktop Web Publishing (DTWP) Program
- The DTWP program gives the page developer a whole set of tools to
help in developing the site.
- Pieces of HTML that are used in multiple locations can be maintained
in a separate library and placed in appropriate locations on pages.
When the site is "published" to the server, the code pieces
will be inserted.
5. DTWP Program With Server-side Templates
- DTWP programs can be used in conjunction with server-side includes.
Thus a person working on a specific topic can have a library of code
pieces for his own topic, and server side include files can be used
to maintain page templates for a uniform look and feel across the whole
site.
6. DTWP Program With Server-side Database
- The DTWP program lets the page developer insert directives to retrieve
and insert dynamic content into pages as they are retrieved.
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