Archive for June, 2003
June 4, 2003
Article on Basic Definition of CMS
James Robertson has published an article that provides a concise and basic introduction to content management systems. This is a great piece to refer to management and others who you need to get up to speed on what exactly a CMS is and the general business problems to which it can be applied.
A content management system (CMS) is critical to the success of almost every website and intranet, and yet many organisations are not familiar with this technology.
So, while we have written many articles on a range of specific CMS issues and strategies, we now take a step back to answer the question: what is a content management system?
In this article we will focus on web content management, and will only touch upon broader content issues at the end of the document.
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June 3, 2003
Open Source CMS Analysis
Tony Byrne’s CMSWatch: Featured Opinion: Open-Source CMS: Prohibitively Fractured? provides an excellent analysis of the state of open-source content management systems. Tony feels that the efforts are currently so fractured between competing projects that no one open-source CMS can compete with the commercial products. An excerpt:
I would like to see development and support resources coalesce around winning projects. Open-source CMS efforts would benefit from a selective merger of efforts, especially among packages using the same language. We could celebrate that a thousand flowers have bloomed, but let’s also acknowledge that too few of them give off a sufficiently pleasant fragrance today.
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June 1, 2003
CSS Rockets
This is worth checking out if you work with cascading style sheets: Simon Willison: CSS ain’t Rocket Science. Lots of good tips and ideas.
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June 1, 2003
Direction of Netscape
Joel points out some potential strategy problems at the Netscape division of AOL/TW given the new deal with Microsoft:
Yo, Netscape employees! This poor sod Adam Lock is working in his spare time to save all your jobs. Wake up.
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