Web Authoring Tools - Content Management Solutions

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Content Management Solutions - in a box..?

dime0000@yahoo.com

2005-06-20, 8:00 pm

Hello:
I'm working for a couple established websites, and i've been tasked to
look up some of these pre-packaged Content Management Solutions.

We have a homegrown solution that fits many busines requirements - and
it worries me that moving to a packaged solution will drastically
change GUIs, and processes.

It also worries me that we'd have to change our website because the CMS
would have to be heavily integrated into our website. Calls to the CMS
would be done from the application, rather than just populating a
database with an existing schema.

Finally - i fear that with all the business requirements, we'd end up
spending more time customizing the heck out of a prepackaged solution
than we would creating a new one!

Are my worries justified?
If not - which ones should i look at?

Adrienne

2005-06-21, 8:04 am

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dime0000@yahoo.com writing in
news:1119305978.709248.153290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> Hello:
> I'm working for a couple established websites, and i've been tasked to
> look up some of these pre-packaged Content Management Solutions.
>
> We have a homegrown solution that fits many busines requirements - and
> it worries me that moving to a packaged solution will drastically
> change GUIs, and processes.
>
> It also worries me that we'd have to change our website because the CMS
> would have to be heavily integrated into our website. Calls to the CMS
> would be done from the application, rather than just populating a
> database with an existing schema.
>
> Finally - i fear that with all the business requirements, we'd end up
> spending more time customizing the heck out of a prepackaged solution
> than we would creating a new one!
>
> Are my worries justified?
> If not - which ones should i look at?
>
>

I'm sure that not everyone will agree with me, but, hey, if it ain't
broken, why fix it?

Personally, I try to use my own home rolled solutions as much as possible.
I have more control, and if there's an error somewhere, since I developed
it, I can ususally find and fix it really quick.

--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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dime0000@yahoo.com

2005-06-21, 7:35 pm

Adrienne wrote:

> I'm sure that not everyone will agree with me, but, hey, if it ain't
> broken, why fix it?
>
> Personally, I try to use my own home rolled solutions as much as possible.
> I have more control, and if there's an error somewhere, since I developed
> it, I can ususally find and fix it really quick.

i hear that -
well - you know how companies are nowadays. they want packages.
homegrown solutions are "bad"...
i need to convince them that this is not the case, and that it would
take us more time to implement an "out of the box" solution, than it
would to implement our own..

Adrienne

2005-06-21, 7:35 pm

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dime0000@yahoo.com writing in
news:1119354012.046497.139300@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

>
>
> Adrienne wrote:
>
>
> i hear that -
> well - you know how companies are nowadays. they want packages.
> homegrown solutions are "bad"...
> i need to convince them that this is not the case, and that it would
> take us more time to implement an "out of the box" solution, than it
> would to implement our own..
>
>

Here's something you can add to your plan of attack. Rarely do these
packages validate to HTML specs. Your own solution probably does, and you
can tell the Powers That Be that valid documents do better in search
engines.

It can take a lot of time editing and debugging to get these packages up to
snuff, and time _is_ money.

--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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