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How this Site is produced?
Here at FONR, we don't have an army of developers we can call upon to help develop and maintain the site
- as you can probably well-imagine! Web-site development is costly in terms of time and money,
and we simply couldn't afford to pay commercial rates - neither would we want to!
The site is therefore developed on an entirely voluntary basis and this has meant we've had
to be very selective in terms of our development processes, tools and in-house technical skills
to bring to you what is becoming a large and exhaustive reference about Newport RFC.
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 has been at the forefront of our effort on the ground. It's a great
tool for web-site development. It has allowed us to...
- Rapidly organise and maintain an integrated and valid site structure
- Design and implement a common look and feel for all the pages
- Update a large number of pages at a time with minimal coding effort.
Integration with the Apache web-servers that host both the test and production sites has been made
possible all from within Dreamweaver, and simplified the difficult tasks associated with migration of
bug-fixes and new content.
The holy-grail of web-site development is the separation of pure content from the presentation -
"the worded documents from how they physically appear", if you like. The last thing we need is to
have to update masses of items when the site undergoes minor branding changes. We are working towards
this end with the use of a media-library publication framework. A workflow for approval of content is
also being developed to automate and minimise the possibility of any discrepancies making their way into
production. We are constantly striving for new ways of making the site as extensive and yet maintainable
as possible. If you would like to know more regarding the technical innovations involved in the site
or make any kind of contribution, please contact us.
Applications used
- Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Apache Web Server
- PHP version 4
- MySQL Database
- phpmyadmin - for online adminstration of the MySQL databases
- FileMan - for online file administration
- phpAdsNew - advertising software
- Subscribe Me Lite 2.04 - Email Distribution List Manager
- buy.at/fonr shopping portal
- Tradedoubler advertiser program
- HyperBook Guestbook v1.20
- Printer Friendly Script by GPrint2002
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