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MADRID (SPAIN), 15/06/2000CETA - CEDEXhispagua.cedex.esMr. Luis Mosteiro RamírezMr. Angel J. Martín Sesma

Introduction

Hardware environment

Internet connection

Software environment

Web server software

Contents editors

Site management tools

Usage analysis tools

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IntroductionIntroduction

! Internet as a global information distribution system

! Accesibility to resources! Needs of information resources

centralization! EMWIS goals


Hardware environmentHardware environment

! DELL PowerEdge 2300– Intel Pentium III CPU– 450 MHz. CPU speed– 256 Mb. RAM– 8 Gb. HDD– 100 BaseT NIC


Internet connectionInternet connection

InternetFirewall

CETA

CEDEXnetwork

Lab #2

Lab #3

Lab #4

Optical Fibre Connection

REDIRIS 256 Kbps. dedicated line

HISPAGUAweb server


Software environmentSoftware environment

! 4 categories of software products– Web server software– Contents editors

• HTML editors• WYSIWYG editors

– Web site management tools– Access analysis tools


Web server softwareWeb server software

! MS Internet Information Server 4.0– Available from the Option Pack 4 CD– Complete and easy to use web server– Includes NNTP, FTP and SMTP servers– Manages multiple virtual web servers on

the same machine– User-based content restrictions (using

NTFS security capabilities)– Complete access log compatible with non-

Microsoft software



! Intuitive & easy to use interface



! Manages multiple web sites on the same machine



! User-based content restrictions



! Complete access log compatible with non-Microsoft software


Contents editorsContents editors

! HTML editors– Plain ASCII files editor (as Windows’

notepad)– HTML knowledge needed

! WYSIWYG editors– No HTML knowledge needed– Easy to use visual design– HTML design dependencies



! WYSIWYG editors– MS Office 97/2000 applications– MS FrontPage 98/2000– Macromedia Dreamweaver 3



! Office 97/2000 applications– Very simple HTML export of Word, Excel,

Power Point and Access files– Indicated for no IIT professionals– Intranets based on file accesses– Microsoft dependent HTML code



! MS FrontPage 98/2000– Very simple HTML generation– FrontPage components as visits counters,

forms, etc. (“webbots”)– Needs FrontPage extensions compatible

web server– HTML code optimised for Microsoft

browsers (MS Internet Explorer 4 or 5)



! MS FrontPage 98/2000



! Macromedia Dreamweaver 3– Professional tool – Easy to use HTML generation– No “webbot” style components– No web server “extensions” needed– No browser dependent HTML code



! Macromedia Dreamweaver 3


Site management toolsSite management tools

! Huge web sites needs of management tools for consistency check and information publishing

! Visual management tools– MS FrontPage 98/2000– MS Site Server Express 2.0– MS Site Server 3.0– Macromedia Dreamweaver 3



! MS FrontPage 98/2000– Needs FrontPage extensions installed on

web server– Document changes tracking– Site replication and on line publishing– On-site & Off-site links verifier– Automatic links actualisation when archive

name/location changes



! MS FrontPage 98/2000



! MS Site Server Express 2.0– Included with MS IIS 4.0 (on the Option

Pack CD)– Simple web summary report– On-site & Off-site links verifier– No file changes tracking



! MS Site Server 3.0– Commercial software– Complete web summary reports– Links verifier– Contents publisher control– File changes tracking



! Macromedia Dreamweaver 3– Commercial software– On-site & Off-site links verifier– “Orphan” files tracking– Site replication– File changes tracking– Automatic links actualisation when archive

name/location changes



! Macromedia Dreamweaver 3


Usage analysis toolsUsage analysis tools

! Information obtained from access logs– Date & time of requests– Client domain identification– Client browser & operating system– Visited resource– Network traffic (bandwidth)– Referrer URL



! What can we obtain with these data?– General web site use & clients trends– Client browser & OS preferences– Most & less visited resources– Most frequent errors– Network congestion– Search engines accuracy– Most used referrers– Clients’ needs tuning



! Analysis tools– FastStats 2.73– Site Server Express 3.0



! FastStats 2.73– 25 days evaluation version available at

• http://www.mach5.com/fast/– Cheap and fast log analyser– Needs IIS 4 log file special configuration– HTML / Word / CDF report generation (text

only)– Graphical representations (not in exported

reports) and tables– File usage tracking possibility



! FastStats 2.73



! Site Server Express 3.0– Available from the IIS 4.0 Resource Kit– Fully compatible with IIS 4.0 log files– Processes log files in two steps

• Usage Import• Report Writer



! Site Server Express 3.0: Usage Import– Centralised database of web activities– Allows multiple servers configuration– IP & search engines excluding capabilities– DNS resolving– WHOIS queries– Job scheduling



! Site Server Express 3.0: Usage Import



! Site Server Express 3.0: Report Writer– Summary and detailed predefined reports– HTML / Word / Excel report generation– Date delimited report generation – Job scheduling



! Site Server Express 3.0: Report Writer

Web Management ToolsWeb Management Tools

MADRID (SPAIN), 15/06/2000CETA - CEDEXhttp://[email protected]

Mr. Luis Mosteiro Ramírez ([email protected])Mr. Angel J. Martín Sesma ([email protected])