DMware /construction Construction Log

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This page provides the construction log for the main construction section of the DMware web site.  It is also its own boilerplate.  The usage is described further in the articles C000003: Construction Structure and  C000004: Construction Section Structure.

Change History

2003-03-19-15:22 Place this page under Construction Rules (orcmid)

After working at establishing construction components, include files, and templates for more of the site, it is clear that this construction page is, stylistically, no different than any other.  So this page is not subject to the same structure as any other construction.htm page.  It happens that it has an unusual link in its Hard Hat Area image, but that must be set individually for each page anyhow.
   

2003-03-11-16:23 Complete Adjustment of Construction Rules (orcmid)

1. I am looking to complete the construction styles for every construction section in a DMware mirror: DMware.info, ODMA.info, and DMAtech.info.  I am interested in using FrontPage's "include" feature, but there does not seem to be a way to customize it to work completely the way I want.  So for now I am using a cut-and-paste structure.  The key concern is having a way to mirror the sites on file systems and CD-ROMs when Web server processes are not available.  I don't want to use anything that requires server-side processes to work.  There are client-side implementations of ASP, so I may look at that later, though this creates interoperability problems with different browsers and non-Windows platforms.  The ideal case involves design/edit time manipulations that FrontPage makes (such as includes) that are then substituted automatically when the pages are stored, and also updated automatically whenever the included material changes.
2. The approach right now is to get the styles down so that I can begin to perpetuate them, with any automation introduced over time.
3. The current approach is documented in article C000004: Construction Section Structure and related articles in this section.. 
   

2002-12-31-14:34 Adjust Construction Block Structure (orcmid)

1. This construction page itself is modified to use the same title-block format as other navigational pages.  Cloaking is dealt with in accordance with construction-area practice -- the default for links is to have them be to whole pages and hence specific to the mirror to which access has been made.
2. The lower block holds the Hard Hat logo and link to the anchor-site's construction section.  Also in the lower block is the "you are navigating ..." entry that applies to this mirror.
3. The construction catalog material is updated to reflect these changes.
   

2002-12-18-15:08 Begin Documenting Construction Rules (orcmid)

1. Introduce a construction catalog for organizing construction materials that document the rules being followed and how the construction is kept consistent.  
2. Begin to capture job-jar items around the construction and maintenance of site.
3. Create some simple pages that capture the styles being used even if they are not explained.  These pages are exemplars of the styles that apply to them.
4. Upgrade this construction log page to be an exemplar of the style for (construction-section) construction.htm pages.  This page can be used as a boilerplate for the style in other (new) sections.
5. Upgrade the index.htm page of this construction section to be an exemplar of the current construction style for such pages.
6. Introduce the standard grounding line for use in the construction section and in the construction structure.  Different lines will be used in the content areas.
   

2001-11-01-22:07 Provide "What's an Orcmid?" Page (orcmid)

To avoid maintenance problems that arise with e-mail address changes, the process of using mailto URL's for page authors is replaced by an indirection to a page where contact information can be centrally maintained.  This is an extension of other uses of indirect lists of links so that DMware mirroring can be carried out with a single source of content pages and without generating broken links within a mirrored page set.
     These changes to the page-author links will be made as pages are touched in future maintenance.

 

2001-07-05-12:57 Rationalize DMware Development Site Construction Structure (orcmid)

The DMware Development Site is designed for independent mirroring on electronic media (CD-ROM), on downloaded hard drives, and on replicas of the Web Site material.  The construction structure is rationalized to have that work effortlessly.  This is the principle du jour [2002-12-24]:
   1. [2002-12-14]: Each DMware site is mirrored under an anchor site.  The anchor site is the host of the mirror.  The anchor site has its own root level and its own construction folder.  A mirror site appears as a folder of the anchor site.  Even so, it is constructed to have no explicit dependency on or direct reference to its own anchor site.  This allows replication of the mirror with minimal change.  It also allows the mirror to serve as the location to which a sub-domain or a forwarded domain is addressed.  Any dependencies on the (specific) anchor site are cataloged within the mirror's construction section itself.  The dependencies are confined and isolated in a way where they may be easily located and adjusted, if necessary, for mirroring on a different anchor site.

   2. [2002-12-14]: The anchor site (e.g., a CD-ROM containing one or more mirrors for DMware sites) has its own construction section pertinent to its operation and organization as an anchor for one or more sites.
   3. The mirror sites are designed to be operated intact and independent of the mirror-specific root and construction material.  These sections include the DMware development site, and also the DMA, ODMA, and other sections that are developed from time to time as peers of DMware for organizational convenience.
   4. 2002-12-14]: The construction page in all mirrored sections will lead to this construction section.

 

2001-04-29-22:39 Create Initial DMware/construction section (orcmid)

   1. In order to allow independent mirroring of the  DMware Development Development Site sections, there is an independent construction structure that will vary depending on the location of the mirror (e.g., on CD-ROM, at a different web location, or on a hard drive directory structure).  
   2. The same practices used for construction of infonuovo.com are honored, and the linking of construction structures (index.htm and construction.htm) is consistent.  
   3. For more information on this practice and what it supports, consult material at http://www.infonuovo.com/construction, at the site where this technique was applied initially.
   4. When this section was created, I had interfered with the system clock through time-zone changes in Outlook 2000.  This has some of the material be post-dated.  I have confirmed that the actually-later materials are accepted into Visual Source Safe properly.

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created 2001-04-29-22:39 -0700 (pdt) by orcmid $$Author: Orcmid $ $$Date: 04-08-26 9:12 $ $$Revision: 22 $