Web Site Design Using a Web-Based Authoring and Publishing System

Web authoring and publishing has become a daily task for almost every enterprise or organization. One big question is how the Web authoring and publishing can be organized or coordinated in such a way that contents provided by qualified staffs, information architecture designed by information specialists and professional design made by specialists can be integrated together perfectly to build and to maintain a professional Web site. In order to answer the question, a Web-based authoring and publishing system will be introduced in this paper. Two finished projects will be described and some concluding remarks will be given. Keywords: World Wide Web; Web Site Design; WebBased Authoring; Web-Based Publishing 1 Introduction As a new medium, the Web has been widely accepted, not only in scientific world, but also in social life - it has been called social hypertext [1]. This results in immense needs for information or contents, especially for Web presentation of enterprises and organizat..