Erm, so was the system we developed - written to publish the Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments that are the Law.
I wouldnt exactly classify the processing and distribution of Hansard and the Budget to the Statutory Publications Office and numerous other agencies as simply an 'editing platform'... as for running the BBC, I think you should read their article regarding the development of the backend for publishing the website - it certainly didnt take 5 years to develop and involved around 10 people...
Why would I want to build a database 'access style on the web'...?
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Erm, me and a 2-3 day a week XML expert built a system to perform content management for Her Majestys Stationery Office, delivering content to various outfits such as the Statutory Publications Office, and published output as diverse as Winston Churchills diaries and the Highway Code in 9 months.... integrated with XMetal, purely xml based internally, output chunked (paged for web sites, paged differently for print), linked, delayed / immediate delivery depending on the SLA the client had paid for.... supported binary data, automatic image resizing and conversion to different formats, no spec and written from scratch.
5 years to develop a CMS...????
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Originally posted by cswdI will say that this is NOT some piece of amateur PHP tulip! It's got about 5 years of my time invested in it. The classic ASP version from yonks ago is running here: http://www.wastecycle.co.uk/ .. albeit customised by muppets (not myself). New one looks more NHS-ish and feels like ASP.Net which it is.
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Originally posted by MailmanAnd the other 40% are just absolute dogs bollocks! So poorly designed as to make them completely useless!
Mailman
HTH
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Originally posted by The Lone Gunmanhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4853000.stm
From the BBC. at least 60% of Govt. and Council home pages have errors or are innaccessible.
Mailman
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Originally posted by cswdcompanies have to pay for it
PS Got a link thingy
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Originally posted by cswdIronically I'm working on an "e-government" CMS (for NHS, councils etc) which will stop those dreamweaver rapists dead.
It uses XStandard XHTML editor and won't even load a page until it's correctly written. It's also semantically correct XHTML so you can view the page on ANYTHING without having to click a text version link or mobile version or that crap.
Not only that I'm giving it away for free! (unless you want support, for which I will be charging a small fortune but still less than the big boys).
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Of course! IT is considered a clerical task after all.
By people who know fsck all about IT.
HTH
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Govt. web sites are crap: Official
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4853000.stm
From the BBC. at least 60% of Govt. and Council home pages have errors or are innaccessible.
Thats what comes of outsourcing to the wrong people.
I particularly liked this bit
One difficulty is that many authoring tools do not generate compliant HTML and make it difficult to edit the coding.Last edited by The Lone Gunman; 30 March 2006, 08:57.Tags: None
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