Matthew Knott

I've just started thinking about making changes to the site, specifically about an "about me" page with a different style to the rest of the site, and the processes I'd have to go through to do that. Change navigational includes, modify templates and style sheets.

An idea I've had for a while is a site-admin tool that creates an XML backbone that controls navigation, page information, and style details.

When adding a new page to the backbone you select from 3 possible options:

• Physical file
• Javascript function
• Build page

Creating a link from a physical file is just a case of uploading a page and giving it a title.

Creating a link from a javascript function is simply a grey that calls the specified function.

Creating a link from the page builder allows stylistic and content changes to be applied to a core template to generate a new physical file.

Once I've worked out the specifics I'll write them up into a downloadable white paper.

• Development

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