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Web Tools report
This document discusses various web tools including browsers, content management systems, and browser management. It covers Opera browser, WebTV, Zope content management system, and an example from City University Business School. Specifically: 1. It discusses different browsers like Opera and WebTV, issues with browser management, and recommends Zope content management system for improving workflows. 2. Zope is described as middleware, an authoring tool, and object database that can improve how we work and manage content. 3. An example from City University Business School demonstrates combining current software like Lotus Notes to provide web content management.
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- 2. What we covered •Browsers: – Browser Management – Opera – WebTV • Content Management – Zope – vendor-neutral view from Lychee – working example from City University Business School
- 3. Browser Management • Toyedwith the NetScape Configuartion Editor: • Agreed that is was a “good thing” • Issue: – How do you get a (suitably) configured browser onto the University’s desktop? – It’s an IT asset management issue
- 4. Opera • It looksdifferent from other browsers • Very lightweight - quick to download • there’s no development kit • there is a licence charge • It is the “most CSS compliant” browser – but Java support isn’t wonderful • Good accessibility, e.g. increase the image by 800% • Q: Does DISinHE recommend Opera as a “solution”?
- 5. WebTV • Checked outour home pages and found: – OK if there’s plenty of white space – If not, then lots of text and links gives a very cluttered look – Design for other browsers doesn’t translate well for WebTV • Issue: (Will/)is WebTV (be) sufficiently important to us?
- 6. Zope The last wordin Content Management • Zope is: – middleware – an architecture – an authoring tool – an object database – can be entirely browser drivem – standard embracing (e.g. XML) – open source
- 7. Zope • Issues: – Zopeis a software tool that is freely available and can improve our ways of working – Licencing isn’t an issue, but awareness is • Recommendation: – JISC-ASSIST and/or UCISA-SG be asked to organise a 1 day workshop on Content Management with Zope as the illustrator
- 8. Vendor-Neutral Content Management viewpoint •Listed 10 challenges for a Web Editor • Gave “whose web is it?” as the conundrum • Fundamental: – Separate web content from design • designers create graphics, templates and web objects • content owners create and update their own pages through Lychee interfaces • the underlying concept is to train (non-)non- technical people to publish.
- 9. Content Management #2 •Content Management systems: – improves our use of web technology – releases the WebMaster from mundane duties • Lychee: – under trial at Kings and Liverpool with the prospect of a CHEST deal to follow.
- 10. City Business School •Used Lotus Notes to hold content • Demonstrated instant web pages and instant new pages (a threaded discussion list) • Demonstrated that current software tools can be combined to provide Web Content Management