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BROWSE E-CHAPTERS

         This site is created by me; a special thanks to my friend and occasional mentor John Pragnell for his often invaluable advice, and more importantly, his continued support.

The Mulky Way
I'm a seasoned database programmer who's somewhat sussed the whole Web thing.
Of course there are many articles on the Web and what it means to businesses, how it can empower individuals etc.

It's all true and it can be done, although it does take quite a lot of understanding to build these types of site from scratch
I've given up on the sales or technology evangalist approach, not that I was ever any good at that sort of thing, I just think well explained demo is good enough to create possibilities and open doors.
This isn't going to be regular sales pitch.

Technically there's much to learn in this industry keeping it simple is really hard work. This site, is hopefully succinct and focused on the practical aspects and delivery. It's a content managment system that includes active content that can vary from page to page, and if required from user to user

The information and functionality I want to impart falls under the seven categories on the left hand side, although the architectures that underpins this site allows for many more keeping the number low helps

The presentation of information is an art form but it is depenedent of the storage system that holds it.
The classification and subsequent indexing of information here is similar to many other systems, a simple master-detail one

The first four are the foundation technologies and others are the business activities that use them. Specifically the business forms are for collecting and processing information from user input, the E-commerce systems for selling, and the content systems for publishing.

Collectively they both apply and call upon the first four, more technical chapters.

I started using the generic term categories then switched to chapters, giving the feel that this site is evolving as an interative E-Book.

Of course the master side could be product categories, and the detail (pages) could be product details, hopefully drawing a strong comparison with E-commerce sites.
But there's no shoppping basket here, that's a significant point, a shopping basket is just another control, a piece of functionality that can be injected on any page any time anywhere; as and when required.

This is a round about way of saying at the site level content and E-commerce systems are very similar.
In fact webica.net is just one page, you can read more on that here.
As this site moved forward with it's mix of technical developer and technical business driven articles so further controls (from a library loaded on the Web server) will be loaded into individual pages you read as and when you request them.

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