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Technical components of Livesite 3

Major technical components of the system are:

HTML pages, if required, hold static and descriptive content that is not often changed.

Graphic design, either by the client or Multibase, is developed for use for use in templates, typically so that changes can be made easily across the site.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This standard web technology tags page elements with classes and IDs, enabling the full range of possible customisation of look and feel and the way that page elements are displayed - for example font size, colours, line size, borders, and position.

XHTML templates deliver the ‘look and feel’ of the site, provide the portal type site navigation and view. These templates also include simple programmatic calls to -

CL4 programs to deliver the search, retrieval and display functionality. Livesite 3 contains prebuilt programs, each of which provides certain functionality. Calls to run these programs are incorporated into the web pages viewed by site visitors.

CL4 databases in some cases contain data and in some cases references to external data e.g. images, text files, PDF files etc, which are located in the secure resource store.

Blowfish Encryption. All cookies used in the login process, the URLs which contain the database query strings and passwords stored on the server, can be encrypted with Blowfish. Blowfish is an industry-standard and highly secure technology which required a password to encrypt and decrypt. This means that a malicious user cannot change their identity by viewing the cookie on their PC, nor could they interfere with the URL query string.

Secure resource store. Documents, templates and other resources called by the secure web pages can be located in a directory which is not accessible directly from the web. These resources can if required be blowfish-encrypted, so that even if somehow accessed by a malicious user, they would look like garbage if opened.

Secure data transmission. If required, transmission of data traffic to and from the web site can be secured with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Documents can be uploaded securely and encrypted, using Livesite’s internal file management functionality.