Intranet Content Management

ZDS

Content Management

This system is built primarily for users who create Source documents in Microsoft Word. All they have to do to publish a document is drop it into the input directory and ask the site administrator to re-regenerate the site.

More sophisticated users with a basic knowledge of XHTML can edit a standard template file with XHTML content and drop that into the input directory.

To make it that simple for the content generators the site adminstrator needs to maintain a site structure table and create the site navigation pages to which the user pages are linked.

Word documents may contain embedded graphs or any other object without restriction.

Word documents can be many pages long, and this makes for slow loading times of the resulting large html pages.

To avoid this the user can enter '[]' wherever he want's the document broken into logical pages. The system will then generate multiple html pages and automatically provides links to previous and next pages in the set.

A standard [PrintFriendly] link is provided on all html pages generated from word documents. Clicking on this launches Word to display the original document.

The entire site is indexed enabling searches to locate information previously locked up in private sets of Word documents

The build system is automated under batch files. One click and the site is re-generated and re-indexed.

Sitegen creates a log of syntax errors, missing images, broken links, page weights and so on.

The site uses a cascading style sheet to ensure consistent presentation.

The site is generated and checked as valid XHTML.

There is just one standard template for all the site's pages. This is stored in an inclusion file. The generation program assembles the template and page content into complete output pages.

The Logictran product converts Word document content to html pages and extracts images from the document. (Word has the capability to generate html but the garbage it outputs is unfit for any type of consumption).

Logictran produces very reasonable html, but further filter programs are run to do final cleanup and bring the page to XHTML compliance.

The extracted images are crushed to the minimum size.

The Site Generation program puts it all together