Aleem,
2008/11/4 Aleem B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks Kevin, that's the first link I googled and ultimately led me to this > mailing list. I was hoping for more details such as what kind of database do > you use in the backend and how much of text data you have. Also I read bbc > uses SSI, however, I don't quite get how you get for example, related posts > to an article through SSI because the text of the article is not immediately > available and with SSI you can't pass the text of the article to a function > called RelatedPosts (or can you?) Any technical insight would be welcome. > > I'm also interested to learn about any design principles behind the > website. The website is design for 1024x768 which means the roughly 8% or so > of 800x600 don't get an optimal view. Was that a concern? Please see http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/desed/visual_lang_1_0_6.pdf for details on this bit. > > > Also, what is the publishing workflow? > > Answers to any of those questions would be helpful. > > > "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves" -- Sir Edmund Hillary > (1919 - 2008) > > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Kevin Hinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aleem B >> >Sent: 03 November 2008 18:46 >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: [backstage-developer] Technical details for the news.bbc.co.uk >> > >> >Hello, I am a first time poster. I have searched for >> >information regarding the backend infrastructure for >> >news.bbc.co.uk but was unable to find much. FWIW, >> >http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/ has a lot of broken links. >> > >> >> I wrote this article about it in 2005. It doesn't go into very much >> detail, but there may be something useful in there: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4606719.stm >> John has posted more recently >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/john_odonovan/ >> >> K. >> >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To >> unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >> unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message. >> > > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
