(Note: This will be presented first at the InterWorks conference held March 6-11, 1999 in Chicago, IL.)

Outline For "Website Tips and Examples"

Other presentations covering related material are available on this Web site.

Website Tips and Examples

• Introduction
• What Will We Cover?
• Some sample scripts
• Methods for providing dynamic content
• Site architecture and mirroring considerations
• Some sample scripts
• Transform strings in Web pages (fixstring)
• Replace blocks of lines in Web pages (fixblock)
• Page cleanup (demsify)
• Summarize monthly lines from wwwstat (logrollup)
• Combine multiple domain log files (munglog)
• Other places to look
• Methods for providing dynamic content
• Select template page based on domain name (pickpage)
• Select template from CGI
• Regenerate images used on static pages
  • Via CGI
  • Periodic computation
• Site architecture and mirroring considerations
• Provide an index page for each directory
• Provide a directory for each topic
  • Don't mix functions
  • Crosslinks
• A directory for Images
• Mirroring implications
• Slash or relative links (vs domain-specific)
• Places non-domain-specific links hurt
• Unmirrored subdirectories
  • Log files
  • Private files
  • Server-specific config files (watch changes)
• Permissions
  • For all maintainers
  • For mirror process
  • For Web server
• Common path access to supporting files
  • Authfiles
  • CGI files
  • Application config files
• Compatible versions of installed programs
• Wrap up

Selected Web References in this presentation (for people with printed copies)

Full paper for this presentation

http://www.arde.com/Papers/WebTips/paper.html

HTML 4.0 Specification

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/CPAN.html

Apache HTTP Server Project

http://www.apache.org/

(Updated 04 MAR 99)