How does it work?
A DAPP is made up of two primary areas: The public frontend and the member area (or backend).
1. The Frontend
This is the part of the DAPP that is accessible to the public. It is basically just like a regular website. On typing the DAPP address (e.g. www.universitydapp.com), a visitor is taken to the DAPP homepage. The homepage of any website is the first page that you see when you type in its address. It is like the welcome page and gateway to other areas of the site.
- The homepage
On this page, excerpts of recent and featured published writings and comments are shown, together with such statistics as most read, most emailed and most discussed writings. Other things include most published authors, a visitor map (that shows where the DAPP visitors are coming from), DAPP channel highlights, random write ups, featured lecturers, article archives, subscription links etc
Aside from the homepage, other areas that make up the frontend include:
- The article page (where the full write up is shown together with the author e-profile and links for email, print and sharing). This page also displays links to related articles, other articles by the same author and other articles in the same Channel.
- The channel pages where all articles from a particular channel are listed. DAPP Channels are areas of the website dedicated to specific disciplines/faculties like Social sciences, Arts, Science, Engineering etc. They also serve as a means of categorizing the writings.
- The e-portfolio pages
- Archive pages (displays previously published articles searchable by date)
