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There are about 9,000 species of birds in the world, and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology provides information about most of them on its public Web site. The lab, a department of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, uses a content management system (CMS) to organize over 2,500 Web pages. The lab helps meet the challenge of this tall order with UpdateEngine6, a product from FatWire, a provider of content management and dynamic Web application assembly software. A 100 percent JAVA-based solution, UpdateEngine6 can organize Web site content so that it is accessible to customers and easy for IT teams to update.
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Before he became the lab's user experience architect last October, Todd Warfel said the site's pages were created and modified through Microsoft's Front Page and updated manually. But because each page was static, updating the header of one type of page (a press release, for example) meant separately updating each page affected by the change. One Webmaster published the pages separately when changes were finished. Sometimes the pages numbered into the hundreds. With UpdateEngine6, the lab can change several pages at once. "The main thing it does is...help us alleviate bottlenecks," he said.
When Warfel started using UpdateEngine6, he and his team isolated the types of pages they wanted to change and created a template for each type. Then they separated the types into sections. For example, a template for a press release (see Figure A) divides into four sections: A header, a navigation bar, a footer, and a center, where the text resides.
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