DESIGN CONFORMITY
A website should have a uniform appearance – not just to promote the corporate identity, but for sheer ergonomics. Your visitors will find it much more difficult to find their way around when the page layout changes from area to area as opposed to when a uniform structure is defined.
Separation Of Content And Layout
Adherence to a design is only possible when content and layout is managed separately. Content, navigation and layout instructions are not clearly separated in HTML pages; text sections alternate with formatting instructions, links and scripts. This makes it difficult for your employees to maintain the pages and demands HTML skills. Whilst tools are available that might mitigate this problem, most of them do not help keep the design of a web site consistent.
Using a template-driven approach, WORKSsitebuilder separates the management of content and layout, thereby solving these inherent problems.
Centralised Layout Control
All layout instructions within WORKSsitebuilder are managed through the use of templates. They determine the placeholders for banners, links, articles and generic content. The use (and more importantly avoiding the misuse) of templates is of paramount concern in the quest for visual consistency.
WORKSsitebuilder restricts the use of templates through a centralised system for managing layout control. Only users with the appropriate permissions may choose from the selection of template designs or designate their use to specific content contributors.
|
