Web site Management
When Web sites become large and complex, it becomes impractical to
work directly in HTML. While HTML is the language of browsers and the
final format for the Web, it is not necessarily the best format to
maintain content and style for Web sites.
Key to efficient Web site management is the separation of the style
elements from the content. Authors can maintain and update their content
independent of the design.
We use both SQL and XML to database content, depending on the nature of
the content. XML provides most flexibility and is our language of choice
in most situations. XML allows for custom solutions to complex content
management challenges.
XML has the advantage of being an open-standards technology which has
quickly become the language of choice for digital document exchange.
XSLT stylesheets allow us to convert these XML data to a variety of
formats, such as HTML for Web viewing or PDF for printing.
Examples of our work
- Evergreen.
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This bilingual, national site needed a content management system because of the
size and complexity of the content. The system we designed includes simultaneous publication of Web and print documents,
and
an SQL database of projects with Web interface for data entry and database administration by staff.
- Comparative
Veterinary Anatomy, OVC.
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Designed an XML management system for text and media content which will allow the College
to produce a series of teaching modules quickly. In prototype phase at present.
- Federation of Ontario Naturalists
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Ontario's premier naturalist organization wanted to adapt their printed educational
materials on wildlife in jeopardy to the Web.
We organized the content in an XML database, then developed separate stylesheets to
allow publication as HTML and as PDF.
