Choosing the right CMS (Content Management System) is a necessary step when first starting a site, however small or large. Whatever the system chosen, your primary goal should be to minimize operation cost and increase productivity. Here is a list of frequently requested core features to satisfy either or both of your goals.
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Choosing a Content Management System for Online Publishing
Sunday, June 7th, 2009Expanding the CMS for new Content
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
A CMS is often expanded when the site requires tools to help publish existing content or introduce new content. Too often, however, the developers are asked to upgrade the CMS without first an idea of what the content is or how it will be presented or used. This inevitably leads to poor development, rewriting and late delivery of a project.
On The Radar, Spring ‘09
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Here are a few technologies and trends I am following this season
Working in Publishing as a Developer
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Whether you’re starting for a top-down, old-style, publishing company or you’re joining a collaborative blog , your tasks as the developer can be grouped into four broad categories. Let’s explore these responsibilities and challenges of programming for a publishing company.
On Website Depreciation
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Is a site ever finished? In a limited way, yes. As the months pass, however, the value of a site degrades. Worse still, with enough time, a site may drive your audience away with it’s dated look, old-style functionality or lack of modern features. How do we handle this depreciation? The key is to become ‘light-weight’: not bogged down with tools and structure, but remain open and flexible to change.
Safari 4 Beta Released
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Apple just released the first public iteration of Safari 4. In the list of latest features we see the introduction of cover flow into their history and bookmarks and a nice panorama of a user’s top sites.
On Programming Alone
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Often we developers find ourselves working on projects as the only programmers. It may be a personal project or a company with enough work for only one. Such work often present challenges in way of responsibility and advantages like control and intimate knowledge of the system. In response to the challenges of programming alone, I have come up with the 5 rules that keep me and my work sane:
The Stale Date
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009The problem: some articles stick around on a top articles widget (see graphic) for too long. How do you indicate that the article should disappear from the widget and give way to newer content?
WebOS O’Reilly book online
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Palm’s new operating system, webOS, for their upcoming phone Pre is something I am very exited about. I am a web developer and the possibility of creating mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript is darn cool. Not only will webOS benefit from the large number of web developers but those same people will gain value in the job market.