http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm A series of occasional musings on architecting, securing, optimizing and generating web based applications. By Peter Bell. en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:07:04 -0400 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:08:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss test@test.com test@test.com http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/12/9/LightBase-Core-Concepts-Elements-of-a-Page Given that I’ll be launching code for LightBase over the next few weeks, I thought it was time to start to write the documentation (if nothing else then to remind myself how it is supposed to work :->). This post looks at how LightBase breaks down a page and the benefits of the granular approach that it takes . . . [More] Views Layout Design Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:08:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/12/9/LightBase-Core-Concepts-Elements-of-a-Page http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/10/26/Designing-Layouts-for-Content-Management-Systems--An-Introduction The key issue to bear in mind when designing the graphical layout of a site that will be using a content management system is to "design for uncertainty", because you don't really know what the site administrators will be putting into your layouts. This is a non-technical introduction designed to highlight some key issues to consider, but each of these areas could be its own essay, so this isn’t the final word on any of the topics – just an overview of the most important points. [More] Layout Design Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:59:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/10/26/Designing-Layouts-for-Content-Management-Systems--An-Introduction