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		<title>By: SalisburyBEC</title>
		<link>http://www.neilcrookes.com/2008/04/14/functional-specs-for-web-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-15453</link>
		<dc:creator>SalisburyBEC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This article is a good guide and is handy for small business owners to think about before they get someone to put a basic website together. Even if the small business owner is only thinking about these things and writing for themselves a basic overview to get them started.

Thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article is a good guide and is handy for small business owners to think about before they get someone to put a basic website together. Even if the small business owner is only thinking about these things and writing for themselves a basic overview to get them started.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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		<title>By: Bharat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bharat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey!!!!

A nice way to make article understandable. I am new in Function Spec and I want your support

Your talk about irony and concise. Which are most important for any reader.

Can I get any template from your side which can be useful to me to learn and present my self useful to my business and to my clients

Thanking you
Warm Regards,

Bharat Agarwal</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey!!!!</p>
<p>A nice way to make article understandable. I am new in Function Spec and I want your support</p>
<p>Your talk about irony and concise. Which are most important for any reader.</p>
<p>Can I get any template from your side which can be useful to me to learn and present my self useful to my business and to my clients</p>
<p>Thanking you<br />
Warm Regards,</p>
<p>Bharat Agarwal</p>
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		<title>By: Gram Arnazi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gram Arnazi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good article :) 

By the way there is a typo in : 

 * Excellent wrtten communication skills.

Ohh the irony :P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good article :) </p>
<p>By the way there is a typo in : </p>
<p> * Excellent wrtten communication skills.</p>
<p>Ohh the irony :P</p>
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		<title>By: Uttam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Uttam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 17:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Neil,

Thank you very much for your comments.  I have a supplementary to it and hope you will answer this as quickly as you did my first question - you have spoiled me!:

There is going to be a leit-motif within my website where the style, colors, layout etc will conform to a single CSS file which would need inclusion and use in each webpage.

How does one specify this in INDIVIDUAL PAGES on my website?  e.g. does one state:

1) Object name: obj-1
2) Style to be used for obj-1: Style-1 (SEE mastercss.css file)
3) Data source: Concatenated text of &quot;First Name:&quot; + first_name field content for key provided in URL with right side spaces dropped.

etc etc?

CSS specification is just one specification.  Other specifications for individual fields can be Protected, Dropdown/radio-button/free-text, length, mouseover text etc etc... 

A template would give me a comprehensive list of what is needed to be provided to a developer.

Otherwise, there would be needless exchange of emails, scope creep, compensation disagreements and so on and my project would get nowhere!

Hence my question about a webPAGE specification template.

Thank you once again.

Warm regards

Uttam</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Neil,</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your comments.  I have a supplementary to it and hope you will answer this as quickly as you did my first question &#8211; you have spoiled me!:</p>
<p>There is going to be a leit-motif within my website where the style, colors, layout etc will conform to a single CSS file which would need inclusion and use in each webpage.</p>
<p>How does one specify this in INDIVIDUAL PAGES on my website?  e.g. does one state:</p>
<p>1) Object name: obj-1<br />
2) Style to be used for obj-1: Style-1 (SEE mastercss.css file)<br />
3) Data source: Concatenated text of &#8220;First Name:&#8221; + first_name field content for key provided in URL with right side spaces dropped.</p>
<p>etc etc?</p>
<p>CSS specification is just one specification.  Other specifications for individual fields can be Protected, Dropdown/radio-button/free-text, length, mouseover text etc etc&#8230; </p>
<p>A template would give me a comprehensive list of what is needed to be provided to a developer.</p>
<p>Otherwise, there would be needless exchange of emails, scope creep, compensation disagreements and so on and my project would get nowhere!</p>
<p>Hence my question about a webPAGE specification template.</p>
<p>Thank you once again.</p>
<p>Warm regards</p>
<p>Uttam</p>
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		<title>By: Neil Crookes</title>
		<link>http://www.neilcrookes.com/2008/04/14/functional-specs-for-web-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-13526</link>
		<dc:creator>Neil Crookes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 19:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Uttam, thanks for your comment. Functional specs aren&#039;t easy, and differ in their requirements depending on the project. In it&#039;s simplest terms a developer would require the following 3 things:

1) what pages are there in the site?
2) what is the content of each page and is it hardcoded, pulled from a database or other source like a web service dynamically, or is it content managed (if the latter, what are the content management requirements for the content)?
3) What can the user do on that page, and what happens when they do it?

Provide this information to your developers and you will have made a great start.

Let me know how you get on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Uttam, thanks for your comment. Functional specs aren&#8217;t easy, and differ in their requirements depending on the project. In it&#8217;s simplest terms a developer would require the following 3 things:</p>
<p>1) what pages are there in the site?<br />
2) what is the content of each page and is it hardcoded, pulled from a database or other source like a web service dynamically, or is it content managed (if the latter, what are the content management requirements for the content)?<br />
3) What can the user do on that page, and what happens when they do it?</p>
<p>Provide this information to your developers and you will have made a great start.</p>
<p>Let me know how you get on.</p>
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		<title>By: Uttam</title>
		<link>http://www.neilcrookes.com/2008/04/14/functional-specs-for-web-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-13519</link>
		<dc:creator>Uttam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 09:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello,

I have the functional specification of my website.

However since there are many pages, I am looking for a template for functional specifications for the webpages in my website.  

For example:

1) Names of tables used:
2) SSL: Yes / No
3) Names of hosts for each division:

etc.

What information would you as a webpage developer expect?

Uttam</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I have the functional specification of my website.</p>
<p>However since there are many pages, I am looking for a template for functional specifications for the webpages in my website.  </p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>1) Names of tables used:<br />
2) SSL: Yes / No<br />
3) Names of hosts for each division:</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>What information would you as a webpage developer expect?</p>
<p>Uttam</p>
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		<title>By: Abhay Bhandari</title>
		<link>http://www.neilcrookes.com/2008/04/14/functional-specs-for-web-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-10460</link>
		<dc:creator>Abhay Bhandari</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi,

The explaination is very good, can you provide me a sample functional specication template. We are developing a portal for lawyers, a web portal....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>The explaination is very good, can you provide me a sample functional specication template. We are developing a portal for lawyers, a web portal&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Darren Kenny</title>
		<link>http://www.neilcrookes.com/2008/04/14/functional-specs-for-web-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-2922</link>
		<dc:creator>Darren Kenny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 20:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent article Neil.

I often write functional specs but always find myself questioning the value of some of the content I produce.

It was refreshing to read your concise thoughts on what you think is and is not required in a functional spec.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent article Neil.</p>
<p>I often write functional specs but always find myself questioning the value of some of the content I produce.</p>
<p>It was refreshing to read your concise thoughts on what you think is and is not required in a functional spec.</p>
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		<title>By: Rick Guyer</title>
		<link>http://www.neilcrookes.com/2008/04/14/functional-specs-for-web-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-1072</link>
		<dc:creator>Rick Guyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article! Thanks! Do you happen to have any further references to this style of functional spec?

I did notice one typo; the word &quot;staement&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article! Thanks! Do you happen to have any further references to this style of functional spec?</p>
<p>I did notice one typo; the word &#8220;staement&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Joanna Chlasta</title>
		<link>http://www.neilcrookes.com/2008/04/14/functional-specs-for-web-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-598</link>
		<dc:creator>Joanna Chlasta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article! Will come in handy for introducing students at my workplace to functional spec writing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article! Will come in handy for introducing students at my workplace to functional spec writing.</p>
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