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Published September 22, 2023
ps|ocm is being developed in stages. This will allow us to plan which features need to be released in what order and to allow use of new features as they become available. Here are the development stages:
In this phase, the web site is coded in HTML by hand for publishing. This serves two purposes: (1) The web site gets published before the software is ready so content is available quicker; and (2) The HTML used for the web site is working and will become the basis for the software to be developed against. This way, we have something to work toward.
For this phase, the initial software release is developed based on the results of Phase I. The web pages developed in Phase I will be stored in the correct file format so that the software will have input that should deliver the same output as is already published. This phase will see articles that are arranged by topic able to be published and the system able to manage the topics list in more places, such as noting the latest articles that were published for the topic within the currently viewed article.
In this phase, the key words noted in the Articles can be listed in an Index file, similar to the Index at the back of a book. This will allow the users to find information better within the articles.
This phase will see the "Admin" files (such as the About, Privacy, and similar pages) work like the articles do for easy editing and maintenance.
This phase will se the introduction of a blog in which quick notes are made that are not formal articles. The plan is to arrange the blog in forward chronological order rather than the reverse order typically seen in blogging software. This way the user is shown the train of though as it progresses rather than stepping back in history. Of course, the ability to jump to the "end" and read the most recent posts will be easily accessable.
Of course, this gets a web site fully up and running. From here, it will be tweaks and possible additions such as Product pages and such. The ability to add advertisements will appear somewhere earlier in the phases when it is convenent. Once all of the above is done, we can add additional features as they come up or are requested.
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