Architecture

• hierarchical organization vs. willy-nilly organization
  • willy-nilly: like Nook
  • hierarchical: easier to find something if you don't know what you're looking for
  • Marlboro needs an amalgamation with search as supplement
• WebDAV
• Subversion
  • version control
  • accountability, logging

    $ svn log -v -rHEAD:PREV .
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    r120 | ismithhe | 2006-04-07 16:22:17 -0400 (Fri, 07 Apr 2006) | 2 lines
    Changed paths:
       M /control/trunk/includes/MySQLTable.class.php
       M /website/trunk/resources/hr/jobs/index.php
    
    Fixed a typo.
    Removed a couple closed jobs.
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    r76 | www-data | 2006-03-20 16:22:08 -0500 (Mon, 20 Mar 2006) | 1 line
    Changed paths:
       M /control/trunk/css/app_styles.css
       A /control/trunk/images/bt-add.png
       A /control/trunk/images/bt-edit.png
       A /control/trunk/images/bt-help.png
       M /control/trunk/includes/AJAXTable.class.php
       A /control/trunk/includes/AddControlButton.class.php
       A /control/trunk/includes/DeleteControlButton.class.php
       M /control/trunk/includes/DropPanel.class.php
       A /control/trunk/includes/EditControlButton.class.php
       A /control/trunk/includes/EditableRecord.class.php
       M /control/trunk/includes/HTMLTable.class.php
       A /control/trunk/includes/HelpControlButton.class.php
       A /control/trunk/includes/MinmaxControlButton.class.php
       M /control/trunk/includes/PanelControlButton.class.php
       M /control/trunk/includes/Record.class.php
       A /control/trunk/includes/RefreshControlButton.class.php
       M /control/trunk/includes/ScrollPanel.class.php
       M /control/trunk/includes/XajaxHelper.class.php
       M /control/trunk/includes/javascripts/custom_effects.js
    
    Made entries editable
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    r75 | www-data | 2006-03-17 18:00:50 -0500 (Fri, 17 Mar 2006) | 1 line
    Changed paths:
       M /control/trunk/includes/DropPanel.class.php
       M /control/trunk/includes/Record.class.php
       A /control/trunk/includes/ScrollPanel.class.php (from /control/trunk/includes/foo:73)
       D /control/trunk/includes/foo
    
    Fixed problems that arose when moving classes to individual files
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    $
    	    

• Development and Production servers
• Nice URLs, Content Negotiation: http://marlboro.edu/about/news/pr/2006/3/28/notions_of_justice instead of http://marlboro.edu/about/news/pr?year=2006&month=3&day=28&title=notions_of_justice.html

Tools

• Eclipse
• Emacs
• vi

Implementation

• CSS
  • Separate content from presentation

    <h1><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="heading" -->Title<!-- InstanceEndEditable --></h1>
    <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="content" -->
    <p>Content</p>
    <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
    	    

  • Syntactic correctness
    • no tables for layout
    • human readability
  • Section 508:

    Under Section 508 (29 U.S.C. ¡Æ 794d), agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information that is comparable to the access available to others.

    • alt tags
    • resizability
  • WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative)
• Content Management
  • Macromedia Contribute
    • Messy code
    • Cruft
    • Not SVN or Delta V compliant
    • Like a word processor
    • WYSIWYG
  • Custom CMS for high-traffic areas
  • Tradeoff between control and freedom