[thelist] web architecture work proposal

[Jose Hurtado]

John,

Having done a few proposals... I advice to keep it simple and do a search in
google for:

RFP or
Request for Proposal

It's funny because the appropriate name should be just "Web Proposal" or
"Service Quote" or something closer to what the document is, instead it is
called RFP or RFQ (request for quotation)

I did check Google, yes there are a few... how about 10 million links for
web RFP?

http://www.google.com/search?q=web+rfp&hl=en&hs=oaQ&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&start=20&sa=N

On the CMS is a never ending story, but unless you are a Python expert, I
would stay away from Plone... choose a CMS that uses an underlying language
that you know welll... whatever it is: PHP, Java, PERL or Python.... know
that one first, then select which CMS would make things happen.

Best of luck!

Jose L. Hurtado
Web Developer / IT Security
Toronto, Canada



On 9/6/06, John DeStefano <john.destefano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was wondering whether anyone has had input to the web architecture
> for a large organization, from inception to implementation, including
> hardware, platform, etc.?  I had asked about a CMS a while back, but
> it looks like that would be just part of what's needed.  The current
> setup has four Apache servers on four geographically-separated sites,
> all going through one proxy.  They're also using TWiki to publish
> collaborated material, and a chaotic mess of HTML schemes to present
> other pages and dynamic data.  My initial thought was to go with a
> Zope/Plone solution, and I still may, but security is the key concern;
> I'm thinking about GridSite (www.gridsite.org), which has its own
> implementation of MediaWiki (GridSiteWiki), but I really don't know
> much about these.  Any information about your current bottom-to-top
> implementations would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm also wondering whether someone has done a "proposal for
> work"/"work proposal" for this sort of project?  What did you address
> there, what kind of timeline was given, and is there a template or
> general format for this sort of thing?  They don't seem in abundance
> on the 'Net, unless they're called by a different name.
>
> Thank you,
> ~John
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