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Creating and Maintaining a CUED WWW site
Contact your
Web Strategy Committee representative before doing any work,
and look at
Serving Information at CUED.
Setting Up
The research support
staff may be able to provide help in setting up and maintaining the server.
Alternatively a site can be
hosted
on a Departmental server.
- Software -
Apache
has long been popular on Unix machines, and is increasing popular on
Windows machines too. Microsoft's Internet Information Server is suitable only for internal use
behind the Department's firewall; there are a number of bugs, and ongoing
discoveries of security problems, that make it unsuitable for use on a
system accessible from outside the Department.
- Documentation
Information providers will need guidance on editors to use, styles to
adopt and legal obligations. CUED's
producing material for the WWW page has some information. Take
particular note of the
CUED WWW House Style if you are going to host any official pages.
The University Offices'
guidelines for information providers is a good example of the kind
of documentation support that's required.
Maintaining
We analyse logfiles using
Analog, and
run programs like weblint or MOMspider
to check on dangling links, etc.
Programs are appearing that help maintain a WWW site. They offer
ways to enforce stylistic uniformity, security and much more besides.
Available products include
- WebSTAR by Quarterdeck
- Sitemill by Adobe
- QuickSite 2.0 by DeltaPoint
- Backstage Studios by Macromedia
- Hyperwave
See
news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design for news.
Security
WebStalker Pro is a security product
available free for 30 days.
