OpenCms 7 Development

May 21, 2008

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The Site Design

Before the development of any site can begin, there should be an understanding of
the site’s feature requirements. The feature requirements will often be driven by the
actual layout and design of the site. We will design and build a blog website named
‘Deep Thoughts’. The design of the site homepage layout looks like this:

The blog site is designed to support the following features:

  • Blogs are listed in descending order of date, with the most recent blog
    appearing at the top.
  • Each blog entry is listed in teaser style, with a link to the full blog appearing
    at the end.
  • Blog entries support a list of topics attached to them.
  • Archives of previous blogs appear on the righthand side, in
    descending order.
  • Past blog archives can be browsed.
  • The site supports contents search with paginated results.
  • Ads may be placed on the righthand side.
  • Users may self register for the site.
  • Registered users may add comments and create a customized RSS feed on
    their homepage.
  • Blogs may be viewed in various RSS formats.

    In addition to the features seen in the mockup, we will also support:

  • Direct editing of content in preview mode.
  • User submitted comments.
  • There are two additional mockups for the site. The first one shows a detailed view of
    a blog. This view is shown when a user clicks on a blog from the homepage:

    The last mockup shows what the search result screen looks like. Search results are
    shown in decreasing order of relevance to the search term. The pagination controls at
    the bottom of the page allow for the results to be scrolled, if necessary:

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