[thelist] How do they do that?

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Wed Jun 5 02:48:01 CDT 2002


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On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 02:46  am, Daniel Fascia wrote:

> A great deal of large, corporate websites who blatantly have content
> management systems in place seem to now use
> flat files instead of the usual ?page=734327434&la=qy234y24 crap that
> screws up search engines.
>
> This may seem like a very niaive question but what sort of system are
> they using to create this?

The short answer is that many CMS aren't in themselves app servers or
web servers, or at least don't *have* to be. They only handle the
back-stage stuff and expose a content repository to the app/web server.
As someone pointed out, the app/web server could be whole farm of the
things.

So big.com/about/investors/index.html has a real file at that location,
but all it does is pull in a template and content assets.

Of course, some examples of the corporates you're thinking of might be
useful...

> Does the CMS churn out flat html pages as soon as the edits are made or
> what??? really confused and the answer is
> probably really simple ;-)

Some CMS will do that, yes.

The other thing is that some corporate sites don't really allow for much
*new* page creation - the IA is largely fixed and to change it takes
development time, rather than content manager effort. All the content
managers can do is amend the assets which get pulled into the pages.
This is even more common for new *sections* of a site.

Cheers
Martin
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