Case Study

KSW IN SHORT: A CASE STUDY

To understand KSW, think of the Help window of an application. The help topics are categorized, an index is usually available, you can perform searches. KSW does all these too, but for a web site and its pages - full featured, UNICODE site search, HI integrated, is currently under development.

Suppose your site at www.sample.com is hard to navigate. You want to give your visitors the means to find what they need, at ease. You are going to use KSW for that:

1. In a quick case study, the C:\Webs\Sample folder on your hard drive is where the site's local/working copy resides. This is where you create pages using your web page editor. When you publish, the page editor updates the www.sample.com remote location.

2. In KSW, create the 'Sample ' project that points to C:\Webs\Sample. In the process, KSW builds information about the local web - pages, titles, encodings, invalid files, etc. Follow prompts and open project.

3. Inside the KSW project, pages are all listed as 'available' for now, meaning they can be used to populate folders. Do create some folders and build a hierarchy. You can drag pages to folders in order to populate them. Similarly, you can drag pages to the index and create terms.

4. All you do inside KSW is to create a model of the future real hierarchy/index on www.sample.com. So folders and pages inside KSW are abstract elements of a model.

But with the modeling drag & drop, your work comes to an end. When you save the project, KSW creates the real hierarchy/index, the real framework for www.sample.com, and inserts everything at C:\Webs\Sample\ksw. It is nothing else you need to add or configure. Just publish and your site is live on the internet.