Homepage

• worldViewableContent: /users/
• siteAdministratorDirectory: /admin/users/
• userHomepageMaintenance: /homepage/
• dataModel: /doc/sql/homepage.sql
• TclProcs: /tcl/homepage-defs
• userContent: /web/servername/users/ (determined by [ad_parameter ContentRoot users])

0     Introduction

0.1     Abilities

The Homepage Module gives users of the site the ability to publish content on the world-wide-web. The users can create their own heirarchical directory structure to organize their content on the site. The not-so-advanced users and others who want to publish large amounts of content and wish to give their content a consistent look, can create special "managed content" directories in their file system. This would be useful for publishing content like books etc which require a considerable level of consistency between all the parts (chapters in the case of books) of the publication. This in no way hampers the endeavours of advanced html publishers who would like to maintain their own filesystem since they can choose not to use content managed directories and have full control over the look and feel of their web pages.

0.2     Inabilities

The homepage module does not let users to author server side scripts, althought users are free to use client side scripts in html using the