Content Management vs. Database Publishing
Documentation of the ongoing live redesign of kokhavivpublications.com
Started in September 2002, a custom CMS is being implemented here. Additionally, our pages are moving from valid HTML 4.01 Transitional to structural and valid XHTML 1.0 Strict with pure CSS layouts. Furthermore, the whole system, from the ground up, is fully standards-compliant.
Features of the Redesign
- New infostructure
- Top-level directories; editions and features
- Top-level pages; linear structural content
Order of Appearance
Additional material is logically structured and positioned linearly, depending on either:
- Required knowledge: appearing before the main content;
- Further information: appearing after the main content.
- Navigation resides at the end of a page formatted as an unordered, nested list.
Example Section Page Layout
CMS
- Content and metadata is stored in XML and outputted via the Web-CMS as XHTML.
- XML-Feeds (RSS 1.0) are generated and updated dynamically.
Accessibility Enhancements
- Device independency with XHTML
- US Section 508 Conformance
- Access keys
- Tab index
Note: Without Bobby complaining about the whitespace issue—even though the links in question are perfectly structural separated being an h1 and an h2—the kokhaviv pages would qualify as "AAA".
Check with: WAI checkpoint 10.5.