Professional SharePoint® 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007

Chapter 1. Embarking on Web Content Management Projects

Ever since the advent of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, there has been a focus on publishing information. Indeed, the very first Web sites were set up by scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, so physicists around the world could publish information in a consistently accessible way. Since then, the Web has moved to more than publishing; this started with transactional Web sites, and led to collaboration, social networking, and aggregation-focused sites, to name a few, and all of these are addressed by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, if not by this book.

Even as the technology has evolved, the need for Web publishing remains pervasive. For example, transactional Web sites publish catalogs and terms of sale; collaboration and social networking sites publish usage guides and ground rules. Therefore, Web publishing remains a core function of any public, extranet or intranet Web site, even if it is more than just "brochureware."

Take a moment to consider this book, which is the product of a modern and technically advanced publishing company. In addition to the authors, there are many other contributors to this book. Someone selected the topic as part of the publisher's catalog and developed the title and "brand" for the book; other people designed the cover and page layout; editors checked for quality and consistency, and still other people typeset and printed the book.

Publishing ...