Introduction to Web Publishing
Robin Richmond

1. Content & Maintenance; the Virtual Content Engine
   "It doesn't just come when you cook the meat"

2. History

   (D)ARPA - (Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency Internet SGML Markup Languages & Meta-Languages

   Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Andreeson NCSA (National Center for Superconducting Applications) CERN (European Center for High Energy Physics) Browser Wars

3. Jargon (See details)

   Internet HTML - Hypertext Markup Language WWW Intranet - 3 meanings

   Web Sites (recursive) Javascript & DHTML (client side) ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, etc. (server side) Cascading Style Sheets

4. Content Management - The Magic Button?
   Web-based application environment that allows users to update content, use content libraries, delegate and manage tasks, use templates, etc.

   1. Sharepoint - MicroSoft's Intranet project administration/document library tool
   2. Sitemaker - (Used by cms.clevelandclinic.org) - more general purpose, WWW only
   3. Dot Net Nuke - An open source .NET content management system
   4. Many other products and tools with a variety of features

5. Methods For Creating and Editing Web Pages

6. Web Application Technologies

   1. Microsoft Technology
      1. IIS - Internet Information Server
      2. .NET (C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, etc.) - Current Microsoft development technolog.
         In practice, a development environment is required, and applications are compiled into a DLL that sits behind some number of ASPX pages.
      3. Active Server Pages (.ASP) - More traditional programming technology; Easy to edit as text files.
   2. Other Technologies
      1. Java, J2EE, Java Beans, JSP
      2. Apache, PHP - Open Source / GNU, usually, but not always on Linux or Unix
      3. WebLogic, WebSphere - Commercial application servers based on Apache

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