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TECHNOLOGY USED IN THE CBPP WEB SITE
As the Web matures into a robust,
content-rich, information delivery medium,
the technologies that support the Web become
increasinly more powerful and complex. The
University of Alaska Anchorage College of
Business and Public Policy relies on several
hardware and software solutions to ensure
the relevance and reliability of this site.
Hardware
The University of Alaska Anchorage College
of Business and Public Policy Web site is
served by a suite of MPC servers, which rely
on a load-balancing device to ensure that
none of the servers become overloaded.
Software
Most of the pages in this site were built
using Microsoft's Frontpage and Macromedia's
Dreamweaver, with every effort to ensure
standards compliance and accessibility.
Additionally, many pages rely on ASP
scripting to deliver content from server
databases, such as the Faculty Profiles. ASP
is a scripting language that gets processed
on the server side, so that pages are
delivered as standard HTML. It is state of
the art (we also run the Windows Web
server). Using Windows, ASP and a database
solution gives CBPP the support and
flexibility that accompanies a large
developer community, and the security of
Mocrosoft Windows, at an economical cost.
Standards and Concepts
Throughout the development and ongoing
maintenance of this site, every effort has
been made to ensure that every page is
compliant with
World Wide Consortium standards. All of
our pages are now using a transitional XHTML
document type, with level 1
Cascading Style Sheets to control
presentation. Tables are strictly employed
to organize data, as intended.
This site is built in a modular fashion,
with reusable fragments of ASP, HTML, CSS
and Javascript stored as modules and
dynamically loaded into the pages.
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Anchorage, Alaska
99508-4614