Site Architecture

Site Architecture

Organized by Groups, then by Pages within Groups

  • Two levels of hierarchy
  • Each page is contained in a text file named Group.Page

Groups

Main

  • Home Page and other pages that don't fit in elsewhere

Buildings

  • One page for each building
  • e.g. "SummitBuilding"
  • referred to as Group/Page, e.g. Buildings/SummitBuilding
  • http://preservationready.org/Buildings/SummitBuilding
  • Most commonly displayed as "Summit Building", i.e., with spaces between words.
  • Group name is not usually displayed.

Possible Other Groups

  • For similar uses as Buildings, Maps and Photos.
  • Possible group with pages of public comment about individual pages.

Site

  • Special pages - documentation, special page lists, etc.

SiteAdmin

  • Special pages for Site Administrator - authorization, security, system tasks

Categories, Variables and Report Pages

Categories are tags contained in each page

  • e.g. "Downtown", "Saved Buildings", "Top Ten"
  • They're visible on the page as links to all pages within the category
  • Categories enable different modes of display - different views, different orders, different components on the displayed list.
  • Pages can be tagged with multiple categories

Variables are a different kind of tag.

  • Not visible on the page.
  • Used for sorting and display.
  • Each page can have only one value for each variable

Report pages are front ends to different ways to select and display the information