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Content Management as Relationships
cms are like relationships: I’ve talked before about how content management and platforms in general are like a marriage, and I’ve also talked about you need to think very carefully before you implement them. This bit of humor demonstrates those points hysterically.
“Why Content Management Systems are like relationships […] There comes a point in your life when you feel that you really should be in one.[…] They’re expensive up front, and you never stop paying for them. […] After a few months of excitement you realize that you’re basically doing everything that you were doing before.”
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Why Boxed CMSs Can Suck
I've Never Met a Boxed CMS I Like: SitePoint has a brutally accurate post about CMSs and making them run actual Web sites. The first issue is that the very nature of a CMS is not easily boxable, without creating an application that tries to do everything for everyone…
Why Do Content Management
Does Your Company Have a Content Management Problem?: Tony Byrne over at CMS Watch (it's two words, don't you know...) has a little checklist on how to diagnose if you have a content management problem. It's also handy in describing exactly what enterprise content management is. When I was looking…
Generic Content Management Isn't Realistic
Perls of wisdom in a sea of site mismanagement: As I work with content management more and more, I believe more and more in what this guy has written: ...the vendors' ideal of a generic site-management system "is completely wrong", Berk says. "The development overhead is very, very high — and…
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Content Management as a Marriage
I got to thinking the other day that the content management field is flooded, especially the open-source systems. Go to sites like CMSInfo.org, OpenSourceCMS.com, CMSWatch.com, etc. and you'll see hundreds of them. Then, every week, I get notifications that new ones have been released: NetWizard Matrix, and Tiki,…
Content Management: Think Before You Implement
On Managing Content and Content Management Systems (CMS): This guy makes a great point here: "I have yet to see one [CMS] that is anywhere worth the amount of money and time needed to get it into place and often times, for many reasons, a CMS can actually make a site…
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Ah, this analogy is priceless. I got a good chuckle over this one.
Getting a content management system that creates standards-based and clean markup with friendly URLs that you and I have both been writing about and wanting to achieve... well, it doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it? But finding such a solution is not so easy, either.
These details matter, though, both in the short run and in the long run.
I need something that my clients with no HTML knowledge or thought about URLs can use without having to think about it. There really need to be solutions that aren't too expensive for small and medium-sized businesses.
I'm considering MT for a 50-75 page site redesign for a new client, and I think Dave's URL hack with the bracketed keywords will make MT end up working for them. But I'm still brainstorming. Their site isn't weblog-oriented at all... it would be more like how MT was used for the adaptivepath.com recent redesign.
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