GUIguide™ is the solution for managing design knowledge to deliver highly effective user interfaces. Based on the "best practices" of usability experts who have built hundreds of large-scale applications, GUIguide™ enables you to use your Intranet as the central source for corporate design knowledge, guidelines, examples and solutions. Whether you are a business analyst, developer, or designer looking to implement design standards within your organization, we have the solution and pricing to meet your specific needs. GUIguide™ is also scalable to continue to meet your requirements as your company grows!
Architecture
The GUIguide authoring server is a 100% browser-based Web content management application built on top of Macromedia's ColdFusion application server. All of the application components, except the browser, reside on the server, allowing for cost effective and wide scale deployment. As a ColdFusion based application, GUIguide is composed of a large number of CFM script modules, along with several custom ColdFusion tags.
The diagram below, along with subsequent high-level component discussions, provides a high level technical overview of a minimal GUIguide deployment. As is typical of dynamic Web applications, the primary components include:
- an HTTP server
- an Cold Fusion Application Server including GUIguide server side scripts
- a database repository
System Requirements
Operating System
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Intel Pentium processor
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256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)
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350 MB hard disk space
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Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4 / 2000
Web Server
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Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
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Netscape iPlanet Web Server (iWS)
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Apache Web Server
Database
GUIguide™ uses 32-bit ODBC drivers or OLE DB to communicate with a wide variety of relational database systems. GUIguide™ has been tested for compatibility with the Microsoft ODBC Desktop Drivers, which are bundled with the product:
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Microsoft SQL Server
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Microsoft Access
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Oracle
Customers running UNIX relational database servers such as Sybase or Informix can use the ODBC drivers provided by the database vendor or one of many third-party ODBC vendors. If the driver you want to use is not listed above, it is likely that it will work correctly with GUIguide™ if:
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It is a 32-bit driver.
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It conforms to Level 1 of the ODBC API.
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It supports the core SQL grammar.
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It supports date and/or time data types.
Browser
GUIguide™ includes an Administrator module that requires a version 4.x or higher browser that supports tables, frames, and Java 1.01 compatible applets. GUIguide™ itself can be deployed to any version 4.x or higher Netscape or Microsoft browser on any platform.