Friday, October 24, 2008

Beyond HTML

This was interesting article. It describes the experience of Georgia State University in correcting and coordinating its website. The original site had virtually no security, was not well organized, a lot of the pages were very different from each other, both visually and in content and staff experience with web page design ran the gamut from no experience at all to a lot of experience. To solve the problem a web development librarian (I didn't know there was such a thing) was hired and his first act was to implement security. The article goes on to describe the action steps taken to coordinate and implement a Content Management System that proved flexible, used current software and accomodated continual growth as well as allowed for customizing or tagging. It's main strength was that it allowed anyone to build a basic guide based on content as defined by the organization.

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