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NextGenVisualWebOnePager

Next Generation Visual Web (One Pager)

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Winston Prakash: Dec 11, 2007


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Objective

  • Design, develop and maintain rich dynamic Web Applications that harness the power of web, combining static content with responsive dynamic components, AJAX and Javascript.
  • Support both designers and developers by seamlessly integrating superior visual design tools with coding environment.
  • Intelligent integration with various frameworks.
  • Maximize efficiency and apply best practices.

Technology Integration

Support for leading technologies via

  • Client Side Tool integration
  • HTML/XHTML/DHTML
  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • AJAX
  • Server Side technology Support
  • JSF/JSP
  • JSF/Facelet (JSF 2.0)
  • PhP
  • Ruby on Rails

Component based design

Easily add common interface components with full visual design support

  • Client Side components
  • HTML/XHTML/DHTML
  • Javascript libraries such as DOJO, jMaki, Google Map/Calendar etc
  • Woodstock Client Side Components
  • REST supported mashup components such as Flickr, Yahoo UI
  • Server Side components
  • JSF components such as Woodstock, ADF (both JSP based and facelet)
  • JSTL
  • GWT

Data Integration

Ability to integrate data in to web pages. Reduce complexity and ease data integration using integrated visual data access tools with out the users to leave the comfort of the visual page design

  • Client side integration
  • Simple Xml using technologies such as RSS feed etc
  • Database driven using technologies such as REST
  • Server side framework such as
  • Hibernate
  • Spring
  • Seam

Integrated CSS support for visual layout design

Support to easily incorporate CSS in to the project with CSS layout abilities and to customize CSS layout templates for the project. CSS support includes

  • Easy CSS management
  • Full fledged visual
  • CSS manipulation CSS layout visualization for complex page layouts with nested schemes.
  • Specialized task panes and toolbars for page layout and page formatting.
  • Visual guidelines for Sub Section (non editable template region and editable user defined region) and layout boundaries.
  • Support for Fixed and Liquid layouts.

Importing Existing pages

Ability to import existing pages (HTML, JSF or JSP/jsf). Users should be able to instantly edit the pages visually without need for any conversion to some restricted model. If any of the section or components could not be understood, then try to depict it as placeholder and construct the layout as pleasing as possible.

Provide tool to reformat the legacy HTML to XHTML for ease of maintenance.

Web Application architecture design

Support for designing the website architecture visually

  • Select and create a Web Application from some starter kits (Ex. Perosnal, Small business, e-business, forums, blogs etc). Set of starter pages are created from the starter kit. User could then visually edit these page.
  • Select a Page template and construct conceptual structure of the website with complete page flow and then create the website pages with a single click.