Essex, Jonathan

Frey, Jeremy

Grove, Dan

Lewis, Sue

Manson, Ralph

Parry, Phil

Robinson, Jamie

Welsh, Alan

English

Southampton (e-Prints Soton)

 Page title and overview, for index. WYSIWYG editor, with Unicode character support Traditional websites rely on the publishers producing HTML formatted documents, or producing scripts that generate these.  In recent times using WYSIWYG HTML editors has eased this, but generating interactive content still generally relies on knowledge of a web programming language.  By using a content management system, the editing and HTML generation can be moved onto the web server making quick edits more convenient and knowledge of server systems redundant.  By careful specification of the teaching material it is possible to integrate other programming tools into the web server, hence allowing the content provider to produce interactive material in a language familiar to them and more appropriate   to the sites content. Empowering the knowledge specialists  Jamie Robinson, Dan Grove,  Sue Lewis, Ralph Manson, Jeremy Frey, Jonathan Essex, Alan Welsh, Phil Parry, Combechem Project, University of Southampton  In an electronic world people want access to information when convenient to them, and whilst most people will tolerate a simple install procedure, they don’t want the hassle of installing loads of programs to achieve a single goal.  In a teaching environment the best tool for learning can be by doing, in an electronic environment it is possible to incorporate interactive examples into the learning material.   Navigation, to dip in and out… Interactive components to reinforce the message Both to view and to edit  Navigation, to move page by page…      WebServer ClientInternetRequesthttp://stats.combechem.slyip.net/index.php?page=1Output of index.phpreturnedProgramindex.phpexecutedDatabasePage Content retrieved from databaseWebServer Content ProviderInternetRequesthttp://stats.combechem.slyip.net/admin/editor.php?page=1output of editor.php Returned(this is either an editor form or aconformation message)Page retrieved from,and updated in DatabaseProgrameditor.phpexecutedContent Provider 2Direct Database  Access via database management  softwarePage Update  Page Request Performance and Manageability  Reducing the Platform Barrier  For the user! The tools content management system is built around a Relational Database backend, this stores all the page text saving the need to have files directly editable by the webserver, hence making the site more resilient to abuse by other users of the server.  When serving many concurrent requests, the database can provide a significant performance increase.  By using web-forms, the site operators can control who has edit rights, without having to rely on the server administrators, reducing the load on central resources. During the specification stage of the teaching tool, it was noted that the end users of the tools will be using a range of browsers on a range of operating systems.  Hence it is necessary to keep the HTML used in the site standards compliant.  The use of an online editor is helpful with this, as it allows us to guide the HTML that people use.    The design of the tool is a result of a Joint Application Development session at IBM Hursley, with a selection of the target users alongside the knowledge providers. The outcome of this was collated and circulated to gain further comments, before being passed onto the site developer.  Throughout the focus is on giving the users the tool they want, and the knowledge providers the tools to produce it. Jamie Robinson, Dan Grove,  Sue Lewis, Ralph Manson, Jeremy Frey, Jonathan Essex, Alan Welsh, Phil Parry,  Combechem Project, University of Southampton   

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