Content Management Tips and Tricks
April 5, 1999
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A Web site, like a city, can quickly grow to a huge sprawling
mass that becomes impossible to manage. A "dynamic" system, one
that generates Web pages from a database and templates on the fly,
could solve your problems, but you just don't have the time to
evaluate, choose, buy, implement, cajole and cuss. Plus, it may
be that one of the minor drawbacks of the latest super-duper
all-in-one site management suite just happens to prevent you
from doing something that you need to do. What will you do?
Stick your finger in the dike. In this article, we'll discuss
some quick and easy ways to streamline your content management
without taking the plunge into a truly dynamic site. In fact,
the tedium of site maintenance can be greatly reduced with a
couple of simple tools, without spending a penny on complex and
cranky dynamic "solutions."
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A Web site of any size requires a certain amount of ongoing
work to keep it up to date. Large sites, and content-heavy sites
such as online magazines or news sites, use dynamic
page-generation systems to automate much of the work of
content management. Publishers of many small- and medium-size
sites, however, may not wish to implement a dynamic system, for
various reasons. If that describes your situation, tools and
techniques that can partially automate the process can save
you a lot of time and tedium. In this article I'll discuss
a couple of such techniques that can streamline the grunt
work, without opening a can of expensive dynamic worms.
A comprehensive guide to the various types of dynamic
page-generation systems would be far beyond the scope of this
article. However, for the sake of our discussion, we do need
to understand some of the basic concepts of dynamic systems,
and take a very brief look at what's out there.
Contents:
Dynamic Systems
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