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This document summarizes my thoughts on how to provide a delivery or run-time environment for the IS&T web site/app. Here are some of the considerations, based on what we know of the current site and the proposed design work from Tank.
- Pages are a mix of largely static content and sections of "dynamic" content.
- The dynamic sections, along with other features like searching, imply "subsystems" - data sources and methods of retrieval - that each require analysis and design work.
- The content must be searchable.
- We must preserve the ability to preview the content in the CMS.
Portal solution
On first looking at the new design and wireframes, the component-like structure of the pages seemed to lend itself to a portal product as a solution. The separate sections for System Status, Highlight etc, that can appear on multiple pages evoked a portal-like structure.
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