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Web Publishing is publishing content based websites on the internet in the form of articles, ebooks, newsletters, and more. Web publishing is a vast field covering many aspects of web design, writing, usability, and revenue strategies.
Content Models
Different types of setups for websites.
- Traditional - The traditional content model is where the website will produce all of the content themselves, by chosen outsourcing or employees.
- Wiki - Wikis are a community content model, involving an entire group of people to improve the content of the website.
- Blogs - Blogs are unfiltered content on a particular subject, usually containing the author's viewpoints and insights. Blogs are very easy to maintain and popular to read.
- Forum - Forums are another community content model, where all the content is relied on memberships and user postings.
Web Publishing Articles
General articles about web publishing.
- Writing for the Web
- Learn how to optimize your writing for the web.
- What is a Wiki?
- Learn the fundamentals of a wiki based website.
- The Web Developer's Copywriting Guide
- Copyright for the online publisher.
- Building a Content Rich Website
- Great tips towards building a content based website.
Generating Profit
Writting Ebooks
- Self Publishing Ebooks
- A detailed website explaning the necessary steps needed to write and publish your very own ebook.
- E-Book Architect
- A website centralized around writing and promoting ebooks online.
Website Revenue Strategies
Web publishing revenue blog, On the Money, at SitePoint.com.
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Power your website through a powerful backend.
- Ottoman
- Minimal CMS, which offers immense control over your website, empowering you to build it.
- Geeklog
- Basic CMS, offering blog and portal like abilities.
- Mambo
- Mambo is a full feaured CMS, with a number of features to build almost any website.
- PHP-Nuke
- Feature rich CMS.
- Siteframe
- Siteframe is a flexible, extensible community content-management system that
supports images and multiple document types. - Xoops
- XOOPS is an extensible, easy to use dynamic web content management system.
- Drupal
- Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
- eZ Publish
- eZ publish is an Open Source platform for web publishing, e-commerce, intranets, document management, blogs, photo galleries and more.
Great Reads
Books related to web publishing.
Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies)
Amazon Price: $44.95 (as of 12/07/2009) 
Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context
Amazon Price: $30.39 (as of 12/07/2009)
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
Amazon Price: (as of 12/07/2009)
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