Dr Alon Chen, Weizmann Institute

The Weizmann Institute maintains a centralized web server for their labs and groups. And while every group is responsible for their own website a lot of restrictions and guidelines apply to the individual site as you would expect in a centralized environment like this. For me as the web designer that meant that for Dr Alon Chen's site only a limited set of tools was available, basically only HTML and Javascript. To reduce the maintenance efforts I built XML templates for the website to create XHTML with XSLT and DSSL offline whenever an updates was needed. This proved especially useful for the gallery which was build using the KDE's XML-parser from kipi-plugins. Update August 2011: The institute has now made the transition to a customized CMS, Drupal in this case. The institute's staff now maintains and updates the website on their own while my design and layout remains in place and is largely unchanged.