GREAT Frontier Web Site for March 9, 1998

Just in Time Solutions Frontier has provided a more efficient way for us to produce sites...Thus we can spend time working on content and designing the core information.

URL: http://www.justintime.com/
Company: Just in Time Solutions
Team:
Art direction: Jason Zada
Frontier: Greg Hipwell and Gwen Coleman, gwen@justintime.com

Gwen Coleman describes the project:
This was our inhouse redesign of our website. The template was initially produced in BBedit and then taken into Frontier. Except for special case pages like the home page, the site was made using one template that used macros for variable elements on the pages.

There are two macros that convert absolute urls to relative urls for both A HREF tags and IMG tags. These are used in the template to allow local viewing of the pages and accommodate directory structures of any depth.

There is also a macro that looks at the first directory in the subdirectoryPath to determine which section of the website the current page is in and changes the navigation button for that section to a hilighted state.

And finally, there is a macro that looks at the first item in the subdirectoryPath and then goes to one of five different macros that control the subnavigation for that section. These macros look at the second part of the subdirectoryPath or the filename to figure out which image, if any to hilight.

Frontier has provided a more efficient way for us to produce sites. Eliminating the grunt work of reproducing a template structure repeatedly and needlessly. Thus we can spend time working on content and designing the core information.