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CH 10 Website Management

• Regular monitoring of website for Performance, Security and Availability.

• Ensuring compliance with policies (organisational, regulatory, legislative,
etc.) that may require changes in website content, architecture, and security.
• Periodic security audit of the website in line with major revisions.

• Analysis of traffic on website and feedback to development/management
team.

10.1.3 In case of a large website/multiple websites, a team should be setup with Web
Information Manager having professionals skilled in HTML Authoring,
Programming, Design, Content etc.

10.2
Website Maintenance Tools

Web is a dynamic medium and a website grows with time with addition of new content
and features. The website therefore requires regular maintenance to ensure that the
quality is maintained and it meets the expectations of the visitor. With the increase
in content size and complexity, it becomes difficult to manually maintain the site and
therefore automated tools should be used for updation, analysis and checking the site. It
is intended that the practice of using these tools may be adopted from the beginning as
it avoids difficulties later.
Some such tool categories are suggested below:

10.2.1 Website Authoring Tools

Website Authoring Tool is a software for generating well-engineered web pages.
Lots of web page authoring tools are available in the market, as well as in the
free domain. One can choose any tool based on the requirements, however, the
following should be ensured while selecting the tool:

• It generates pages that conform to all of the requirements, recommendations
and options of this guideline.
• It conforms to the Web Consortium’s Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines.

10.2.2 Web Content Management System
A web Content Management System (CMS) is the software used for creating
and managing web content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic
collection of content on a website/portal (HTML documents and their associated
documents and files). CMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing,

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