Building your Intranet HomeWorlds

Step-by-step, you can build up your Intranet Web Presence in the following manner:

Secure your Intranet Web Server software and/or hardware
Gather the Intranet Web site content - things like:
- Product pictures and datasheets
- Procedure Manuals
- Notebooks
- Brochures
- Reports
- Policies
- Newsletter articles
- Standard Queries for Databases - Forms
- Make a choice on the HTML extensions you plan to support.
  Which Web Browsers will it work with? All, some, or only one?
Determine database accessing tactics - CGI scripts or Vendor-specific database accessing APIs
- Choose the database queries and reports to support
- Choose your CGI scripting approach - Perl, C/C++ with ODBC support, Microsoft ISAPI, Spry BGI, or a combination thereof!
Layout its design for navigation
- Spatial layout on various pages
- Spatial layout for Database Query Forms
- Order of Site layout - page to page navigation
- In-line layout - item by item navigation on the same page
- Be polite with images - give small preview images of large images for voluntary retrevial
- Match branches in pages to branches in ideas
- Keep pages short
Test it
- Install it on a stand-alone Web Server on a PC/Macintosh/UNIX box
- Look at it with every Web Browser you expect to be used on it
- Run the CGI scripts against the Web Servers that will use them
Evaluate its effectiveness
- Get your employees opinions on using the site. Make any changes they all strongly suggest!
Finally install it for Intranet access!