Thanks, that's partially what I was looking for. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 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 >
