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Bringing Decoupled CMS Back
There’s sort of a retro-ish movement afoot to return content management to its decoupled roots. (No idea what “decoupled means”? Read Decoupled Content Management 101 for a long-form primer.) Henri Bergius has written a good post summarizing why he feels coupled CMS comes up short, and making the case that there are several new technologies [...]
Why Django and Rails CMS Are So Rare
I’ve been talking to people lately about why there are so few CMS in either Rails (Ruby) or Django (Python). There certainly are a few, but I spend more time looking at content management than most people, and I can think of only four offhand (meaning, without using Google): Radiant and Railfrog for Rails Ellington and [...]
Pushing the Frame Rate
Why do TV shows and movies look “different”?: This is a really interesting discussion over at Reddit about why movies and television look different. You know, how a soap opera looks…well, different, than a movie on the big screen. Most films are filmed in 24 frames per second. Where as most TV is filmed using higher [...]
Use Canonical URLs, Please
If you want to be friendly to the web, do the world a favor and start using the canonical URL LINK tag. More things than you realize depend on the simple principle of identifying a page by a unique URL, and it’s getting harder than you think. It turns out that a web without canonical [...]
Are Comments on News Articles Pointless?
I’ve always maintained the commenting on major websites – especially news sites – is just a complete disaster these days. Comment threads on sites like CNN and USAToday (especially USAToday, for some reason…) make me not want to live on this planet anymore. Nick Denton, of Gawker fame, agrees. Apparently, he doesn’t even go near [...]
Decoupled CMS is the New Black
Fun with Static Publishing: Seth writes about how he’s come full circle back to static publishing of websites. They’re content-managed (-ish) in the background, but written to files then uploaded to Amazon S3 to be served. And this brings me to my little obsession with static publishing. I am hosting a few sites on Amazon [...]
OASIS Takes on WEM
OASIS Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI) : Web Experience Management (WEM, or any of about a half-dozen other crapronyms) is getting serious about standardization. The OASIS WEMI TC works to define a simple domain model for delivering aggregated content into a total Web Experience. When complete, WEMI’s abstract feature set will constitute an international open [...]
Assault with a Deadly Panda
Is This the End For Content Farms?: Google’s attempt to stifle content farms (the “Panda” algorithm changes) just might be working. CMSWire reveals this email from Bright Hub to its freelancers, effectively firing them all: The last few months have been particularly challenging. Like many companies we are facing the reality of a changed economy, [...]
Why Sharepoint Installations Tend to Suck
The Root of All Evil: SharePoint Information Architecture and Happy End Users: This article on information architecture and Sharepoint absolutely nails the most common problems with the platform: Struggle to create, enforce, maintain basic governance — once the SharePoint genie is out of the bottle, it takes on a life of its own; and folks [...]
Nesta
Ruby CMS – Nesta: I like the idea of this CMS, and it’s virtually identical to something I built years ago in PHP that I called “Gonzo.” Do you prefer writing and testing HTML and CSS in a text editor, rather than a browser window? Are you happy writing copy in Markdown or Textile? If [...]