"Website Manager"

Supervised by S.North

Abstract

The Website Manager (WM) is a tool designed for the web site architect. The WM clarifies, develops and implements the ability to create and manage the structure of a web site, which no other application currently provides.

The WM therefore extends the suite of applications that are available to the web site architect. However, the WM goes one step further. Every application available to a web site team acts independently, and therefore the benefits of one do not extend to another. The WM solves this problem by simultaneously developing a standard data structure that can be shared by any web application. Applications which are developed to use this data structure provide the web site team with a powerful suite of integrated tools.

This dissertation successfully develops three important developments. The first is the ability to abstract the view of the content of the site from the architecture. The second is the architecture of the site content, and the third is a proposal for a standard data structure.