[dba-Tech] Question about such tools as WordPress

[Jim Lawrence]

Nowadays, a website has to go beyond just a standard rigid formatting. The pages have to be adaptive to the devices they will be shown on; PC, tablets or most likely these days, cell phone...in multiple directions. Then more pictures and videos have become standard and this also has to be completely adaptive.

A good website, today, is a major construction, much more complex than anything I used to do. That said, if a good website is designed it is really easy to drag and drop an article into a page as it mostly formats itself.

I am sure all these online newspapers can crank out a well formatted articles with little effort as all the design structure is in place.

A writer or reporter can update an article from anywhere just using their laptop or cell phones...easy peasy.

No wonder good web-designers are paid very well.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 10:46:02 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Question about such tools as WordPress

More generally, I guess, this question concerns how such web pages as The
New York Times  <https://www.nytimes.com/> are laid out. When a story
continues elsewhere, what does the creator do, in practice? Start with the
entire article, give it a page name, then cut the title and first
paragraph, and paste that into a frame on the main page? And, finally, add
an URL at the bottom that points to the rest of the article?

That seems like a lot of work, particularly when multiplied by the number
of articles mentioned on the main page. I imagine there's a much simpler
technique. Do you know what it is?

-- 
Arthur
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