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4.5.24 Publication Site:
1. For decades, public and private web sites have been provided but a new kind of "publication" web site has evolved.   An objective of a publication web site is to use web page addresses that will remain stable for at least twenty years or more.
2. A publication web site must have no external dependent file or functions that may change.   The URL of a web page must never change, even if the web page content evolves from time to time.

2. Characteristics:
1. A publication web site is for the benefit of its visitors and not for the benefit of its owner.   Visitor details are not recorded. Cookies are not used. Sessions are not used. Containers are not used.   Web pages are plain HTML5 with fully qualified CSS and fully qualified images.
2. JS is not used, so hover and popup help pages are not supported.   Normal HREF page links and popup pages are supported, but no ajax and no data entry.   Each web page is as simple as it can be so trends and style will not be impacted by its more than 20 year life cycle.

3. Marketing:
1. The foot line contains a copyright notice and the meta data contains an authors notice that is a kind of marketing.   The highly focused web page content is the primary marketing message - evidence of skills, experience and capability that exceeds all others.
2. A publication web site is like a CV or linkedin profile - except that it runs to many hundreds of pages to demonstrate deep understanding and credibility.   A publication web site is a bit like writing a book and publishing that book as a web site.   The book provides a story on behalf of the author - the web site provides technical advice on behalf of its publisher.
3. A unique factor is that selected character codes are displayed as normal, but are actually UTF8 encoded characters.   Where complete web pages are saves as-is, the UTF8 codes will provide evidence of authorship.

4. Technical:
1. Content Management Services (CMS) has evolved with three user interfaces as (1) 4GL file, (2) set of topic-statement records and (3) editable text-area.   Every web page can be transformed from any one format to any other - one one style has preferance for everything.
2. Publication web sites will use 4GL files and will avoid using a DB.   Each 4GL web page is transformed to a HTML5 web page with fully qualified CSS so the web page has a degree of portability.
3. The URL design uses one and only one subject parameter where that subject name is designed to survive for at least 20 years.   A modest amount of flexibility and misspelling is permitted - URL manipulation is expected.   A search facility is also provided to operate on the web site index.

5. Subject Design:
1. Care and diligence is needed to design subject names that can remain stable and relevant for the next 20 years.   It is possible that some subject names will become indexes to a set of dependent web pages.
2. Chapter and subject numbers have no relevance and only internal links can enable a person to browse from section to section.   The menu bar will offer navigation to associated web pages - this is different to Wikipedia.
3. Focus is given to smart phone navigation using buttons rather than word links.   Ease of navigation has priority over layout - effectiveness has priority of pretty.
4. This is not a copy of wikipedia with a left hand menu column.

6. Search:
1. The index page with links to 500 pages is rather excessive and not easy to use.   A more effective search facility is used where a few characters are entered and a list of matching web pages offered.   Unfortunatly, this search facility means that Ajax is needed in this one and only area.
2. The need for an intelligent search is important and so JS will have to be used to make this effective and automatic.   It will be interesting to see if a JaveScript library can survive for twenty or more years.

7. Deployment:
1. www.computer-management.co.uk is the production site and www.b3v.co.uk is its development site.   "publish.c2" is the only program name in the application stack.   "p=subject" is the only parameter in the URL.
2. It is not logical to include links to external web pages that may not survive the next twenty years.   This is a CO.UK publication with everything in English and no reason to evolve into other languages.