Big, Static Sites (was Re: [thelist] synchronizing remote/local)
Zachary Mutrux
zac at monarchmedia.com
Mon Jan 22 17:10:31 CST 2001
I have two words for you: institutional inertia.
Making the move to a data-driven site is a tremendous leap in thinking for
some organizations. Getting a large organization to start thinking "web" is
very difficult. Once that's accomplished, there are similar issues when
making the move to HTML 4 (or XML), standardized templates, and
database-backed content management systems.
Here's an example of just such a huge site:
http://www.harcourtcollege.com/menudirect/
Every menu is a discipline. Each discipline has around a half-dozen topics.
Each topic has a number of books. Each book has from four to 20 pages
associated with it. I'd say 6000 separate pages (not counting online
overhead presentations and instructor manuals) is a conservative estimate.
Why isn't this site in a database? Because it's not. :) Rumor is that it's
on its way there, though.
zm
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Zachary Mutrux, Project Manager/Production Specialist
Monarch Media : 831-457-4414 : http://www.monarchmedia.com/
on 1/22/01 2:03 PM, Frank at framar at interlog.com wrote:
>> I use constantly to maintain 3000+ file sites.
>
> If I may ask, what kind of site uses 3000 files? I assume that's
> about 500 pages. When things get that size, I start thinking in terms
> of databases and apps right away.
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