Health portal

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XO Caudecus

XO Health Portal

The concept of the XO Health Portal is to build a content bundle using (relatively) simple HTML documents containing high-quality basic health information. These "leaf" topic pages are to be linked from a series of index pages. The design (and the initial starting content is going to be modelled on the MedLinePlus Health Topics portal from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) which is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Step 1

Identifying the content source

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Step 2

Downloading raw materials

Step 3

Analyzing structure of MedLinePlus site and anatomy of an individual Health Topic page.

create dissection / analysis page

Step 4

Re-factoring the structure to be better suited for internationalization and localization.

layout design ideas

Step 5

After mechanics of new structure design and conversion of existing materials is worked out, a review of suitablility of individual topic pages can be performed. One advantage of waiting until after an initial version ofthe XO Health Portal is produced is to model the local modification of this content bundle and develop documentation of how to perform modification and upkeep on such a bundle.


These parts need to be worked in / reorganized to more clearly illustrate content workflow concepts involved

Content quality review This material is developed by the National Library of Medicine.

Content readability review use SMOG or other reading level tools



It may also be useful to reproduce the "List of All Health Topics" page and possibly the alphabetical sub-section linking to that page, but it is not clear how to do this easily when alphavetical ordering will change with translation into new languages.