GREAT Frontier Web Site for February 9, 1998 Bom Dia Brazil The Challenge was to automate the production of the daily site so that a journalist could do all the job without any HTML code.

Vitor Conceicao describes the project:
Bom Dia Brasil is Globo TV's Early Morning News Program, it is a daily news show that focus on a more interested audience. It has a deeper coverage of the stories and lots of analysis and interviews.

The Challenge was to automate the production of the daily site so that a journalist could do all the job without any HTML coding.

The design was already finished when we started using Frontier so we didn't have to hack Frontier to produce the exact same pages our design team had prepared.

We started with templates with the includeRenderedObject directive to include the text.

For the Headlines (Manchetes) I used an Outline with two levels, in the first the Headline and in the second the Source.

For the first page I used three wp text objects, one outline with some directives like the name of the images of the two main stories and one outline for the notes on the right.

For the stories themselves one wp object with the text and one outline for the image names.

The images are captured, processed and saved in an images folder in the same folder where Frontier will render the site.

As of now the upload is still done by hand so that we can have a last minute check if everything is working perfect.

And now we are starting to prepare all our other News Sites to use with Frontier.