After writing the project page for wpSMS I didn’t have much more to say in a blog post announcing it. The cool thing about writing Pages in WordPress is that I can create a taxonomy like /projects/wpsms/ to place them in. The downside is that new pages never appear in the RSS feed.
So I need [...]
Posted November 18, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: bsuite, cms, content management, wordpress. Be the first one.
The question:
What’s a good user-friendly Macintosh web development program? A friend called. She’s thinking of buying Dreamweaver, but is afraid it will be overkill. She found Frontpage to be easy and needs something similar.
My answer:
If the intent is to design individual pages on an unknown number of sites, then I don’t have a recommendation.
If the [...]
Posted May 15, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, content management, questions, site management, web design, wordpress. 10 Comments.
Zach got a call from the Serena Collage rep who rattled off this list of customers in New England:
Boston College
Northeastern
Bristol Community College
UMass Lowell
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Posted December 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, collage, commercial cms, content management, content management system, serena, serena collage, vendor, web content management. 4 Comments.
We got the demo yesterday of Sungard/SCT’s Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). I mentioned previously that the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well.
Here’s what we learned in the demo:
It started with the explanation that data is stored as XML, processed by JSP, and rendered to the [...]
Posted December 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cms, content management, content management system, demo, lcms, luminis, luminis cms, luminis content management suite, sales demo, sct, sungard, sungard sct, web content management. 8 Comments.
Everybody wants a content management system, but there’s little agreement about what a CMS is or what it should do. Even knowledgeable people often find themselves struggling for an answer before giving up and defining a CMS by example.
The problem is that we know we want better websites, and we know technology should help, but [...]
Posted November 28, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: broadvision, cms, cms pitfalls, cms project, cmss, commerical vs. open source, content management, content management system, editorial authority, interwoven, pitfalls, vignette, web content, web designers, web site management. One Comment.