Next, a team of top editors and designers using Sun Sparc and NEC PowerMate Systems, will use a series of Illustra-developed forms and Netscape Navigator 2.0 to select and edit photos, text, and graphics for each story. Automatic web page and site creation. Then the magic begins. A new Internet publishing tool developed by NetObjects, Inc. allows automatic page creation and site management. NetObjects takes the images and text from the Illustra database, inputs them into HTML templates designed by Clement Mok , and builds the entire Web site.
Editors can toggle between different layouts to fine tune the look.
Once they're satisfied NetObjects automatically generates all the HTML and links, and updates the story's cross references. NetObjects automatically keeps track of all the pages and links, letting the editors republish with new stories and updates every half hour. 5 million hits a day The site will be hosted on a Sun Netra server running the Netscape Communications Server designed to handle 5 million hits a day. It will be updated hourly as 80 editors, designers, and programmers frantically edit and filter the digital bombardment. For those of you who have created large web sites over a period of months, you can just imagine the frenetic activity they will go through in one day.