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? 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. >
