Seeing Results


A login to the Human Resources website with a Manager account quickly shows how the permissions settings come together with the shared database tables. On any other department site, the account is treated as a simple user, but from within the HR site, the Administration link appears in the Main Menu. Clicking the link provides the limited content module options shown in Figure 26.5.

Figure 26.5. Manager access in a department website.


The Add Story module is also appropriately restricted. When reviewing a submission waiting on post approval, the article category only displays All Departments and Human Resources (see Figure 26.6).

Figure 26.6. Selecting a category to post locally or globally.


Finally, this section takes a look at the results of the interface differences in the department sites mentioned in the prior section. The Human Resources opening page can be seen in Figure 26.7. It has a standard left-weighted layout with main content placed in the center column.

Figure 26.7. Human Resources department site layout.


Figure 26.7 can be easily compared to the Information Technology layout displayed in Figure 26.8. Both designs keep the tabbed upper navigation system and the logo/date/search content. But all of the elements below the header are completely different.

Figure 26.8. Information Technology department site layout.


Rather than display news articles or large amounts of text, the IT site focuses on links to department content, grouped by the floating blocks. The layout is also weighted to the left, but the color transition is softer to carry to the right. The same Admin Message posting is present on both sites, but by placing it in a more subtle side block, the Information Technology posting is more balanced with the rest of the page's content.

Like any website development, the design complexity and coding standards adherence must be weighed against the user environment and developer skill sets. An intranet site like this might need to provide support for aging legacy systems with 5.x or older browsers. The resulting site might not look pretty on an old browser, but it can be made functional while simultaneously supporting the current systems.



    PostNuke Content Management
    PostNuke Content Management
    ISBN: 0672326868
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 207
    Authors: Kevin Hatch

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