A Quick Overview of eComDelta.com:

What you will find here are the basics for people considering the issues while getting ready to build or update their web presence. A bit of common sense, mixed with real world experience, practical application and some examples that will be helpful to both novice and professionals alike.

eComDelta.com's site is built on nearly two decades of experience building websites. While the code base here is fairly new, having recently¹ re-engineered our site using PHP/MySQL, from its original legacy ASP form, the overall methodologies are not. The techniques used here showcase the underlying framework that allows for the separation of presentation from content. This site, is in effect, a demonstration of the real world application of these practices. In short, we practice what we preach. This site is built on the code samples provided here. To understand a little more about us and what we have to offer, please visit our About Page. 

Guided by a simple philosophy, that it is more productive if the folks that "know how" and the folks that "know what" be a little less dependent on each other when adding to or updating a web site's content or functionality. The primary design goal here is to facilitate the separation of content from the programming code that drives the site and presentation markup language that displays it. In this way, the templates that drive the presentation of the site are distinct and separate from the content and the database engine drives them both. In essence, our goal is to make the content itself separate from the web site and to provide a freely shared core of reusable programing code for exactly that purpose. 

For anything more than a static, single page "brochure-ware" site, empowering management, marketing and content owners to create and edit their own content directly is a practice that will consistently lower the long term costs of managing a web site for any business, large or small. That is, as long as the editing task is as easy to use as a typical word processor or email program is.

Our philosophy however is not ours alone. Much as we would like to claim it, it is also the basis for most "Content Management" systems on the market as well as a core mission for most enterprise level web teams. It is a little like the first human that saw "the wheel" in action, once you see how it works it is just too obvious. 

So whats next? Well that depends on what you are after.

• For more about us, our philosophies and practices, please visit our About What's Here section.

• If you are a fellow web developer looking for a quick start, please by all means check our Developer's Corner section.

• New to the web or just considering what the issues facing you are? Please visit our Building a Web Site section.

¹please note, "recently" as of the original creation of this page, on Thu,11 Feb 2010