Where Code and Content Meet : Design Patterns for Web Content Management and Delivery, Personalisation and User Participation

by Andreas Rueping (sd&m)

• ISBN13: 9780470970942
• ISBN10: 0470970944
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A practical go-to reference for Web developers programming custom software for Web sitesMost advanced Web sites or Web platforms have specific requirements that go beyond standard functionality; to meet such requirements, it's often necessary to develop custom software. This is the point where code and content meet, and where this book begins. Where Code and Content Meet presents a collection of real-world, tried and tested patterns that address content-related aspects of custom software development for advanced Web sites or platforms.Mined from a series of successful Web projects, the patterns represent collected expertise of designers from several software development teams and serve as a practical guide to designing your own content-related custom components for your Web project. The patterns are independent of specific tools and technologies, and focus on non-functional requirements, with the overall goal of defining sustainable software architecture. Presents a collection of tried and tested software patterns mined from a series of successful Web projects Includes checklists for managing Web projects and real-world patterns from PLoP conferences Illustrates use of software patterns through a case study that runs throughout the book and gradually evolves as the patterns are applied to it, one by one Covers content modeling and content organization, navigation, findability, personalization, and user participationBy employing the software patterns included in Where Code and Content Meet, you'll learn how to program custom software faster and more efficiently.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Architecture Overview

Content Management and Content Delivery

Dynamic Content Delivery plus Caching

Sensible Client-Side Interaction

Listener-Based Synchronisation

Layered Architecture for Content Delivery

Content Management

Content Type Hierarchy

Decoupling of Content and Navigation

Dynamic Content Linking

Taxonomy Based on Keywords and Categories

Workflow-Based Validation

Content Delivery

Content Services

Navigation Manager

Search Manager

System of Interacting Templates

Template per View

Self-Contained Pages

Personalisation and User Participation

Content Filters

Asynchronous Personalisation Engine

Segment-Specific Caching

Condensed Effectiveness Reports

Decoupling of Edited Content and User Contributions

Input Channel for User-Generated Content

Deployment and Infrastructure

One Web Application for Content Delivery

Dedicated Development and Production Environments

Smooth Relaunch

Planning a Project

Choosing a Content Management System

Final Remarks

Pattern Thumbnails

Glossary

References

Index

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