Professor David Radcliffe has created Lord Byron and his Times (LBT), a large
digital archive of works surrounding Lord Byron and his contemporaries. The
original website was unusable slow due to the expensive XSLT transformations
and XPath queries being applied to TEI documents.  By removing the reliance
on XSL and using eXist-db and XQuery, while relying on ubiquitous and
well-documented CSS for client-side styling, we have been able to increase
performance dramatically without sacrificing features or functionality.
In this paper, we go over an overview of the project, including challenges
and potential solutions, and performance metrics of the original system in
section 1.  Section 2 contains a user's manual detailing difference between
the old and proposed systems.  Section 3 contains a developer's manual, which
contains overviews of various technologies that were being used in the system
designed by Professor Radcliffe.  The fourth section describes technologies
relevant to the proposed system.  Finally, documentation and installation
instructions are given in the fifth section.  The rest of the paper contains
a VTechWorks inventory, contacts for everyone involved with the LBT project,
and references.