The Paris Pages Experience Index 
Approaches To Solution
Throughout all of its history, the Planet has managed to create only one City of Paris. All of us, no matter where we are, or who we are, can find resonance with one of this places infinite dimensions. For precisely these reasons, it is a passionate subject, and also an inexhaustable one.
The Paris Pages quickly discovered how difficult it was to translate this passion into html. At this time, significant reflection has been invested in thinking carefully about the issues presented here. Several software tools have been created to help solve some of the daily problems, including database-to-html routines which are essentially programed using meta-html templates.
Nevertheless, different strategies are used for the different sections of the web site. The Hotel database is used to create fixed static index html pages which point to the individual hotel citations. The citations themselves however are accessed via a cgi script which queries the database. This way hotel information can be immediately updated in the database. The index pages - hotels classified alphabetically, by stars, etc - are fixed, and thus accessible to search engine robots. The museum and monument sections have basic information pages generated offline from a database; detailed pages with images, history, are written in html and maintained by hand.
Thus, we are moving toward a hybrid appraoch using both fixed html pages, and on-the-fly html creation. There are also several databases for major data groups (hotels, restaurants, museums, monuments, etc) which will form sub-sections of a larger 'Paris Data Base' (PDB). Within the sub-sections, there are detailed data associations possible. The PDB allows for larger scale general data associations across the board.
This is an ambitious undertaking, and an investment in the future of both the web site, as well as the data itself. Despite our modest resources however, we believe it is the only way that the City's richness can begin to be discovered on the World Wide Web.