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Web Content Management
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Back in 1995 or so, I wrote my first HTML document. I wrote it in Notepad, and I still remember adding a TITLE tag, refreshing the page in Internet Explorer, and watching with awe as my document title filled the title bar of the browser window (the idea of tabbed browsers was still years in the future, so the document TITLE became the entire title of the window).
That first web page quickly grew into an entire website. Mainstream adoption of CSS and JavaScript was still a few years off, so I didn’t have scripts or stylesheets, but I had a handful of HTML files and a bunch of images (you were nobody if you didn’t have a tiled, textured background on your page of links).
With this, I ran smack into the first problem of “webmasters” everywhere: how do I keep track of all this stuff? I don’t even think the word “content” had been popularly applied yet — it was all just “stuff.”
As websites inevitably grew, so did all the stuff. Since we were largely bound to the file system, we had a copy of everything on a local machines, that we would FTP to our server. Huge problems resulted if you had more than one editor, with two people trying to manage files, they would inevitably get out of sync and be unintentionally overwrit‐ ten.
Additionally, the process of managing a website was enourmously tedious. Linking from one page to another assumed the two pages would always exist, yet broken links were common, and if you decided to reorganize the structure of your site or rename pages, you had to hunt through all your files to find where the previous name might have been used.
Deane Barker - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-1-491-90812-9
NONE
Web Content Management
Management
English
O’Reilly Media, Inc.,
2010
USA
3-107
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