2005

Implementing a third party content management system took a great deal of site maintenance pressure off of my role as webmaster.  Unfortunately, as a WYSIWYG editor with permissions sets, the CMS couldn’t prevent against inconsistent styles, link rot, and provide dynamic menus.

This was addressed along with a site redesign.  All site requests were routed to a JSP script which dynamically created menus for the specific page based on the structure of the actual HTML files on the server.  These CMS created HTML files were cleaned and combined with the dynamic menus using XSLT to deliver consistent, standards compliant pages.  All without requiring content contributors to know what any of that means or worry about menu upkeep.

I discussed this process in detail for my 2005 presentation at the Conference for Law School Computing.