[WEB4LIB] web publishing process

[Mark Gooch]

Thanks for providing me with an opening to ask a question I've been
wondering about.  What I am interested to know is are people concerned about
the "bloated" files and less than clean HTML code produced by some of the
HTML editors (Netscape Composer, Front Page, etc.) in this type of
situation.  I've been contemplating whether to have staff here create pages
on their own with Composer or some other editor.  I'm concerned that the
less than stellar code  which is created (and I don't consider myself an
HTML "purist") will eventually fill our server with files which are larger
than necessary.  Also, when people run into coding problems I will likely be
the one who has to hunt through this code to find the problems.  What do
others think about this?

Thanks
Mark

David Vose wrote:

> Our library is migrating staff computer accounts from UNIX to NT. Our
> web server will remain on the UNIX box but all web page authoring will
> be done on PCs on our staff NT server. Prior to this change, all web
> authoring was done with pico and pages were quickly and easily made
> live. Of course this process did not provide for html validation. With
> the new arrangement, staff will have to do all editing/authoring on
> their pcs and then it will somehow be sent to the unix web server.
>
> THE QUESTION: In this split environment, what is the best way to get new
> or updated pages from the staff pcs to the unix web server. One
> suggestion is to have all authoring done on individual pcs (as opposed
> to doing it in a shared directory space similar to what can be done in
> UNIX). When an html file is finished, the author would copy the files to
> a "waiting" directory on the NT server. All files in this directory
> could be validated there (unless the authoring tool does it) and then
> ftp'd to the webserver with an automated process. This seems time
> consuming and less than ideal since there would be three copies of each
> file: one on the author's pc, one in the waiting directory, and one in
> the live space.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing how others that work in a split environment
> like this publish their pages.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Vose
> Binghamton University Libraries
> (607) 777-4907

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