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| Problem:The website you are maintaining has several versions including a version for regular browsers, a simple one without Flash animations for modem people, and a special version for mobiles. The maintenance becomes sort of a nightmare every time the content changes. If it's not frightening enough, your boss is seriously considering adding new language versions of the website.Traditional solution using static HTML:It is a no-go. If you find yourself being underpaid - quit the job! If you think you earn enough - reconsider. You are bound to make mistakes while maintaining a website that is any large using this approach. Make sure you have your link checker handy. And the HTML syntax checker too.
Then go through the futile task of explaining your not exactly enlightened boss why it's taking so long to produce the website after a few simple changes have been made to the description of one of the products. Or why it took you 4 even days last time a new product line was introduced. And be sure to keep in touch with sales people. And the marketing people too. Anytime anyone wants to change a single word in a mere sales blurb you're called to your attention. Give it a break! Traditional solution using server-side script and a remote database:Easy enough after you have gone through the bother of creating the database tables on the remote server. Still, the complicated server-side code has to be reused on several web pages.And you cannot make changes to the structure of the content easily enough since more often than not it requires rebuilding the entire database. Hell! You cannot even add records to the database unless you take your time to provide some kind of web interface the sales people can use to add new products and modify existing ones. If you fail to do that, they'll have you typing away the SQL queries on your telnet console every time a trivial change needs to be made. WebsMill approach:Just create as many versions of the web pages as there are needed and have them automatically rebuilt and uploaded to the web site every time content changes.And you don't have to take care of the content at all! Let the marketing and sales people have all the fun editing the content using the visual tool that WebsMill provides; tell them to call on you only when major changes are to be made that require fiddling with the layout of the website. Tell your boss she can go ahead with the new language version. Instruct the translators on using the built-in Translation Tool. Improve your tennis skill while they tend the translation business all by themselves and after they're done just point-and-click to upload the new language versions to the web site.
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