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Since a few feek I've been working on the relaunch of zueblin.ch and its reports on reports.zueblin.ch. It's gone live today so it could be DNS isn't switched everywere.

Design and concept is made by a print designer, I did all the programing and some design elements. It's pretty big project with 3 domain (.fr and .de) in 2 languages all in 1 PW install, and it was done quite fast in a short amount time. It has already about 1100 pages and ~500 pdf's as pages. Special is the fully ajax loading of all pages which degrades to a still working site without javascript.

Many thanks for all the support and help with modules, it was fun to do it and it will continue. I just hoped the multilang module by Oliver were already done, so I could've used it here. :) But still it all works very well with language trees.

http://zueblin.ch

http://reports.zueblin.ch

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reports is the "broschure" of their annual reports. All content pages I import into PW from an export (html) a company is doing out of indesign documents. Many tables and data. I've done xls creation on the fly from the table markup, and the zoom function for large tables happens automatically (all js). It was a blast doing that all in PW. So powerful and simple with import and building a stuctur that is felxible and extensible.

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Absolutely stunning work Soma! Huge site and everything works well and looks nice. Bye bye flash, we don't need you anymore :)

Can I ask about those reports you have? Ie. this page: http://reports.zueblin.ch/en-ch/halfyearreport-2011/portfolio/1002_portfolio_switzerland.htm Where does the content come in to the html table? Do you read it from excel or something like that?

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Absolutely stunning work Soma! Huge site and everything works well and looks nice. Bye bye flash, we don't need you anymore :)

Can I ask about those reports you have? Ie. this page: http://reports.zueblin.ch/en-ch/halfyearreport-2011/portfolio/1002_portfolio_switzerland.htm Where does the content come in to the html table? Do you read it from excel or something like that?

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, flash bye bye! ;)

The content is in html form that is exported from indesign files. We work together with a multimedia company doing the html export. So tables are html tables "clean" and with predefined stylings that reflect the print design. I then export the htm files they give us into PW and use CSS to style. From there I generate xls on the fly using phpexcel and simple html dom. So this is a one time export-import scenario, the data doesn't come from somewhere dynamically. This is dictated kinda by the workflow they got. It's all a bit complicated going from excel to indesign for print, then from indesign to html... This will all get prepared shortly before the print version goes final, so the last import will be always done 1-2 days before release of the print, because they change thing until last moment. Somehow I feel there's much work involved preparing things on various ends, but there's no other solution to this, like xml or xls zentralised data that could be used by different medias.

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