XHTML

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XHTML
Presenters Jarkko Lunnas Sakari Laaksonen
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XHTML - Introduction
Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• XHTML 1.0
• Why XHTML?
• XHTML vs. HTML
• Declarations
• Differencies in declarations
• Validating XHTML

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CMSs (in web) What are CMSs
What are CMSs ideal for?

• CMSs are for managing larger scale publications
  which are hard to control and manage
• Used for publishing same content in different
  publications

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CMSs (in web) What are CMSs
Categorizing CMSs
Enterprise Management Systems / EMSs Stores and
manages organizations e-publications,
documentation and Web content so that the
employee of the company can reuse the information
across different applications.

• Web Content Management Systems / WCM systems
• The main focus of the system is to publish
  content in the Internet environment
• The system repositories lie on web server
• Managed with browser-based tools

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CMSs (in web) What are CMSs
Categorizing CMSs
Open source (free) Ez Publish
http//ez.no/ PHP-Nuke http//www.phpnuke.org/ Mam
bo server http//www.mamboserver.com/
Commercial CMSs Crasmanager http//www.crasmanage
r.fi Navigo CMS http//www.ch5finland.com
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CMSs (in web) What are CMSs

• What CMS provides?
• Main purpose to provide solid control over the
  content and publications, to be able to publish
  same content in different publications
• Role of CMS for clients makes possible to
  maintain the sites without knowing actual
  code-languages
• For developers To provide a structured and easy
  to use framework for further development

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CMSs (in web) Principles and logical design

• Main principles
• Rendering format needs to be separated from the
  actual content and metadata
• Content needs to be separated to components and
  stored in a hierarchial structure
• Content managing is all about relating components
  to each other

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CMSs (in web) Principles and logical design
Components
ltPRODUCTSgt   ltPRODUCTgt          
 ltIDgt11007lt/IDgt            ltNAMEgtCardboard Cup
Sleevelt/NAMEgt            ltPRICEgt00.02lt/PRICEgt 
          ltDESCRIPTIONgt Available in brown,
white, and green.            lt/DESCRIPTIONgt    
       ltPICTUREgt/images/cupsleeve.jpglt/PICTUREgt 
 lt/PRODUCTgt   ltPRODUCTgt          
 ltIDgt11008lt/IDgt            ltNAMEgtCardboard
Elvislt/NAMEgt            .            . 
 lt/PRODUCTgtlt/PRODUCTSgt
Information content components All the content
needs to be separated into smaller chunks of
information.
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CMSs (in web) Principles and logical design
Structuring Hierarchies (TOC) Indexes Cross
references Sequences
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CMSs (in web) Principles and logical design

• Structuring
• Control the structure and you control the
  content and its publications
• CMS access structure
• Inside the CMS for management
• Outside for navigation
• Publication access structure
• Set of access structures that relate the parts
  inside the publication and lets you know whats
  inside the publication

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CMSs (in web) Principles and logical design

• Templates
• Basic templates shouldnt require any programming
  skills
• Template process
• 1. create a standard page, that all the other
  pages follow
• 2. replace all the particulars (that will differ
  between pages) with placeholders
• 3. template processor replaces the placeholders
  with the particulars they address per page
• - own syntax can be added as well

ltHTMLgt   ltHEADgtInsert Titlelt/HEADgt 
 ltBODYgtInsert Bodylt/BODYgtlt/HTMLgt
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CMSs (in web) Principles and logical design

• Templates
• Main template types
• Page templates
• Navigation templates
• Component templates

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CMSs (in web) Principles and logical design
Programming, use of mark-up languages and
databases Open programming standards
Object-oriented programming Programmed
components use from and stores the data (the
given attributes) to a relational database or to
an XML file
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CMSs (in web) CMS areas and workflow principles
Repository the heart of the management system

• Storage for components from where they can be
  continually managed to increase the quality of
  their metadata or content
• Content databases
• Content databases such as relational databases
  and XML Object databases, not necessarily
  mutually exclusive
• Content media files
• Apart from a database as separate files
• Control and configuration files
• Templates, metadata lists indexes, scripts,
  workflow rules etc.

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CMSs (in web) CMS areas and workflow principles

• Main workphases
• Collect
• Manage
• Publish

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CMSs (in web) CMS areas and workflow principles

• Workflow system
• Goal is to make complex tasks as easy as possible
  for the user to carry out
• layered functionality
• triggering
• archiving
• backup processes
• connection management processes

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CMSs (in web) CMS areas and workflow principles

• The publishing system
• Repository -gt Content -gt Templates -gt
  Publications
• Web publication process
• Loads a template.
• Pass any parameters that came along the request
• Execute code in template to produce the finished
  page
• Pass finished page to web server for display to
  users browser

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CMSs (in web) CMS areas and workflow principles

• Administration system
• sets parameters and takes care of the structure
  of CMS
• includes staff configuration, metatorial and
  system configuration

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CMSs (in web) CMS demonstration
CMS Demonstration

• Crasmanager 4.1

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CMSs (in web) Additional business values
Additional business values through CMSs

• Hosting deals
• Efficient re-use of resources
• More focused component and system development
• Savings in providing correct up-to-date info

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CMSs (in web) Future scopes
Future scopes

• The content management market is huge and
  growing day by day
• CMS features are expected to become more
  standardized
• CMS field is maturing all the time to have
  higher level of consistency, repeatability and
  professionalism
• Content managing will extend its scope more and
  more to hypermedia, software engineering,
  marketing and business process design and such

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CMSs (in web) Sources
Sources

• Books
• Content Management Bible, by Bob Boiko
• Companies
• Crasman Company Ltd.
• Internet
• Content Management Tutorial _at_ http//chalaki.com