Where code and content meet : design patterns for Web content management and delivery, personalisation and user participation

A practical go-to reference for Web developers programming custom software for Web sites

Most advanced Web sites or Web platforms have specific requirements that go beyond standard functionality; to meet such requirements, it's often necessary to develop custom software. This is the point where code and content meet, and where this book begins. Where Code and Content Meet presents a collection of real-world, tried and tested patterns that address content-related aspects of custom software development for advanced Web sites or platforms.

Mined from a series of successful Web projects, the patterns represent collected expertise of designers from several software development teams and serve as a practical guide to designing your own content-related custom components for your Web project. The patterns are independent of specific tools and technologies, and focus on non-functional requirements, with the overall goal of defining sustainable software architecture.

Presents a collection of tried and tested software patterns mined from a series of successful Web projects Includes checklists for managing Web projects and real-world patterns from PLoP conferences Illustrates use of software patterns through a case study that runs throughout the book and gradually evolves as the patterns are applied to it, one by one Covers content modeling and content organization, navigation, findability, personalization, and user participation

By employing the software patterns included in Where Code and Content Meet, you'll learn how to program custom software faster and more efficiently.

• Foreword p. vii
• Preface p. ix
• Acknowledgements p. xvii
• Introduction p. xix
• Chapter 1 Architecture Overview p. 1
• Content Management and Content Delivery p. 3
• Dynamic Content Delivery plus Caching p. 9
• Sensible Client-Side Interaction p. 14
• Listener-Based Synchronisation p. 21
• Layered Architecture for Content Delivery p. 25
• Chapter 2 Content Management p. 31
• Content Type Hierarchy p. 33
• Decoupling of Content and Navigation p. 39
• Dynamic Content Linking p. 45
• Taxonomy Based on Keywords and Categories p. 49
• Workflow-Based Validation p. 54
• Chapter 3 Content Delivery p. 61
• Content Services p. 64
• Navigation Manager p. 73
• Search Manager p. 78
• System of Interacting Templates p. 83
• Template per View p. 89
• Self-Contained Pages p. 94
• Chapter 4 Personalisation and User Participation p. 99
• Content Filters p. 101
• Asynchronous Personalisation Engine p. 107
• Segment-Specific Caching p. 111
• Condensed Effectiveness Reports p. 115
• Decoupling of Edited Content and User Contributions p. 118
• Input Channel for User-Generated Content p. 122
• Chapter 5 Deployment and Infrastructure p. 127
• One Web Application for Content Delivery p. 130
• Dedicated Development and Production Environments p. 135
• Smooth Relaunch p. 140
• Planning a Project p. 147
• Choosing a Content Management System p. 161
• Final Remarks p. 169
• Pattern Thumbnails p. 171
• Glossary p. 179
• References p. 187
• Index p. 191