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www.war.us--The
Challenge
Develop a site that has a highly polished look and constantly changing,
absolutely current content while staying within a budget that a private citizen
can afford. This site may look like the vehicle of a conservative think tank
or well-heeled news service, but its owner doesn't have either the capital
or journalistic staff the big guys possess.
Rather than a central core of writing staff working
through a staff webmaster, we had to deliver a site that could accommodate
a far-flung group of editors and writers each contributing an occasional
article. None of these people were experts in HTML.
Under these circumstances, a site could easily degrade
into a hodge-podge of competing typographic styles. We needed to weld together
the work of the disparate contributors so that it would look like one cohesive
effort, and this had to happen without the intervention of a human managing
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How We Met the Challenge
We developed an XML parsing engine to format and display current news from
a world class news feed. Fresh news is added, and old news is auto archived
by an this robot.
Contributors can add their articles and editorials by editing auto-spawned
template pages using Macromedia Contribute. This frees contributors from
the rigors of HTML formatting, and keeps a consistent look to the site.
We further standardized the look of the pages by using
a single Cascading Style Sheet called by each page. Since each auto-spawned
template page has already embedded within it the CSS formatting for the site,
pages retain a consistent look even though many authors contribute.
The site has attracted a great deal of attention. It
has been mentioned in the Washington Post and Miami Herald, among others.
Visit War.us and see how well
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Page URL:
www.etproductions.com/portfolio/warus.html
Copyright © ET! Productions & J. K. Hollomon, Jr., 2001.
Excerpts from original site, © 1998/99. All rights
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Last revision:
Saturday, 08-Jan-2005 14:07:42 PST |
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