#25104
Ask Tony: Future of Microsoft CMS 
Microsoft has in no way abandoned the web content management market.
Byrne, Tony. CMSwatch (2005). Articles>Content Management>Software
#27131
Blogs and One-Step CMSes are the Future of Web 2.0
Last year before I discovered Drupal and a host of other Content management systems I was building websites from scratch. I spent hours in PHP and Active Server Pages coding and designing. I was quite happy doing so. But then I came upon a flaw in the business plan of the company where I worked. It seemed we were doing the same thing over and over again only with slight differences in the end result. These differences were the reason I was busy all the time but could never catch up to the work load. What we needed was a finished product that allowed us to produce addons to satisfy the individual needs of each client.
Hiveminds (2006). Articles>Content Management>Software
#28196
A triple-barreled question facing many enterprises today is whether to use an application-building tool or 'framework' to build a content management system (CMS); to buy one of the many out-of-the-box finished products in use by major Web sites; or to simply rent a CMS from an application service provider (ASP) and avoid the headache of running an application server in the enterprise's data center.
Doyle, Bob. EContent (2004). Articles>Content Management>Software
#14168
Buyer's Guide to Content-Management Tools
As your sites become more critical and complex, you need tools to automate management--and you need them now. Enter the new generation of Web site content-management products--a seasoned batch of tools and systems ready to help you meet the challenges of the brave new Web world. There's a wide range of products out there, and while they overlap somewhat in functionality, the phrase Web site content management means different things to different people. For some, content management is really asset management--that is, a system to keep track of media assets, such as graphic elements, text and video. More commonly, however, Web site content management refers to a set of integrated tools that helps manage some portion of the whole range of site development and deployment tasks. Although no single product can do everything, many offer deployment/publishing, versioning and rollback, site design and page authoring tools, link checking, access control, change routing and notification, and site-visualization tools among their features.
Hoffman, Richard. Network Computing (2000). Articles>Content Management>Software
#27130
Comparing Apples and Oranges to CMS Software
As ridiculous as that may sound many are getting away with doing it. There are many comparisons of open source CMS software that are popping up that are total garbage. The reviewers are comparing CMS systems that are in 5 to 8 different categories and have 4 different sets of requirements. No wonder they are confused and can't make a choice.
Hiveminds (2006). Articles>Content Management>Software
#30997
Comparing Open Source CMSes: Joomla, Drupal and Plone
Open source content management systems can make creating and managing your website a lot easier - and there's no licensing fee involved. But which should you use? We look carefully at Joomla, Drupal, and Plone to compare their strengths and weaknesses.
Bonfield, Brett and Laura Quinn. IdealWare (2007). Articles>Content Management>Software
#28944
Content Management Market Year in Review 2006
The Rockley Group takes a look back at the year 2006 in review. What happened in the CMS market? How is globalization changing the content management landscape? And, what about new communication vehicles like blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS feeds?
Rockley, Ann. Rockley Bulletin (2006). Articles>Content Management>Software
#20509
Create XML Structure in an InCopy Document
Use XML in Adobe® InCopy 2.0, to apply tags to parts of a document, and then export the document as an XML file.
Adobe (2003). Articles>Content Management>Software>XML
#27156
Poor Database Design of Drupal Equals Low Performance
Drupal's database design is stupid! it sucks! it is crap! To things clearer I am talking about design errors. Yes, they do exist. Some say that design errors are the basic cause of bugs in a system. They are right. Rather than go through a bunch of queries or rather hundreds of queries, I will just say that the database design has no relational qualities that would optimize and speed up the system what so ever. This a glaring whole in the knowledge of the Development team so if you are a joiner and want to contribute to the project then think about helping them out with the database design first.
Drupal (2007). Articles>Content Management>Software>Drupal
#27127
Drupal Has Terrible Access Control
After a week of fighting with it I have come to the conclusion that Drupal access control modules are all inadequate and are based on some weak database design. Taxonomy access and node access are flawed from the start. This type of access control where the assets are assigning their own internal security is not scalable and suffers from very high database overhead.
Hiveminds (2005). Articles>Content Management>Software>Drupal
#28507
Getting Started with Blogging Software
We reviewed and compared the seven tools most frequently used to create a blog. Which are easiest to get up and running, or to tailor to match your site? Which has the best comment moderation features? Reporting functionality? We'll give you all the details and recommend a tool for you.
IdealWare (2006). Articles>Content Management>Software>Blogging
#31273
No Small Task: Migrating Content to a New CMS
Content migrations are often the dirty little secret that folks in the CMS world like to avoid. It’s hard, it’s messy and very few organizations do it well. Truth be told, the content migration can often be the hardest part of implementing a new CMS.
Short, Kyle. CMSwire (2008). Articles>Content Management>Software
#27376
The Ockham's Razor Principle of Content Management Systems
Unless we manage to make Drupal more accessible to new users and to get back to the basics, we'll find the ground shifting beneath our feet.
Buytaert, Dries. Poynter Online (2004). Articles>Content Management>Software>Drupal
#22080
Open-Source Content Management Systems
Open-source CMS has now matured to the point where it should be considered alongside commercial products, but is not without its weaknesses and issues.
Robertson, James. Step Two (2004). Articles>Content Management>Software>Open Source
#31753
The Right and Wrong of Quark and Adobe Strategies
What distinguishes the underlying strategies of Adobe InDesign from QuarkXPress is the absence or presence of a content management system (CMS). And each company asserts that it’s following the less-traveled road. The problem is they’re both taking roads most traveled because of their respective stances towards integrated content management systems, and I’ll show you how after looking at their respective strategies.
Kuhnen, Eric. Content Wrangler, The (2008). Articles>Document Design>Software>Content Management
#22851
Running with "KEDS": Document Control in Lotus Notes 
Many companies have faced the challenge of putting their policy and procedure documents online, usually in a network or Intranet. KEMET Electronics Corporation had the extra hurdle of achieving complete document control online, The solution is a program cal!ed 'KEDS' (KEMET Electronic Document System).
Ries, Ken. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Content Management>Software
#18308
Software for Building a Full-Featured Discipline-Based Web Portal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Internet Scout Project [1] received funding in the fall of 2000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [2] to build an open source software package that would allow collection developers to share their collection's metadata via the web. The resulting software, the Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT), is virtually turnkey, very inexpensive to maintain and operate, and easy for non-technical staff to download, set up and populate with metadata. Conforming to international standards for metadata, data harvesting, and Web technology makes SPT useful for and usable by a wide variety of projects and organizations, allowing and encouraging collaboration and record sharing among projects. Over the SPT project's two-year period, beta testers and in-house quality assurance testing provided valuable feedback, helping to ensure that the software was robust, easy to use, and well-suited to the needs of the intended audience.
Almasy, Edward, David Sleasman and Rachael Bower. D-Lib Magazine (2002). Articles>Web Design>Content Management>Software
#31491
Using WordPress to Build Websites Instead of Blogs
One of the things I like about WordPress is its versatility. WordPress isn’t just blogging software. With the right theme, you can build a website that doesn’t resemble a blog at all. Essentially, writers who become familiar with WordPress become empowered as web designers as well.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2008). Articles>Content Management>Software
#14715
WebWorks Publisher: Jumping into the Details
Desprez illuminates some of the advanced features of Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher, a software package that allows single-sourcing from Adobe FrameMaker to online documents. For a discussion of WebWorks tailored to beginners, see Wendy G. Beren's article 'WebWorks Publisher: Can It Convert You?'
Desprez, Robert R. Intercom (2001). Articles>Content Management>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
#32079
Developers as Users of SharePoint
In SharePoint, we are likely to think of developers as people who work to customise SharePoint, but there are a lot of developers out there who are simply end users of SharePoint. How do they like the system?
Technical Writer (2007). Articles>Content Management>Software>Microsoft SharePoint
#32081
Joomla: Another Simple Content Management System
Joomla is more complex than WordPress but it has more power. Because it’s a real content management system—unlike WordPress which is a blog with content management capabilities—you don’t have to customise it to make it look like one. Other people have also created templates you can use.
Technical Writer (2007). Articles>Content Management>Software
#32082
WordPress as a Simple Content Management System
I know that some users of high-end CMS’s may dispute this definition, as a high-end CMS does a lot more. But what is a content management system really? It is content, stored in some kind of database, accessed via a front end. That is exactly what WordPress is.
Technical Writer (2007). Articles>Content Management>Software
#32146
Getting FLOSSy: Acrobat Killer Or HAT Replacement?
Some writers truly hate Adobe Acrobat and any tool that can do the job better is worth a shot, particularly if it’s open source and easily navigated. Flossmanuals.net introduces FLOSS which does a lot of the single desktop Acrobat Pro’s job - collaboratively and open source.
Jeter, Charles. Charles Jeter (2008). Articles>Content Management>Documentation>Software
#32372
Introduction to Web Content Management Systems: Part Two
Content Management System software is available commercially from several vendors, as well as from many free or open source software (FOSS) communities. The quality of the open source versions, especially the market leaders mentioned in this article, is very good, and using open source has the additional benefit of an collaborative community of programmers working on improvements and bug fixes, often able to respond faster than their commercial rivals. Of course, cost is the advantage many IT managers are interested in when considering open source alternatives, as most of these packages are available free or for a small donation of time or money.In either case, using a CMS solution, whether commerical or FOSS, saves money in development time and also provides stronger security through the technical support of the software vendor or the collaborative programming community.
Kephart, Tom. New Tech Heroes (2008). Articles>Content Management>Software
#32373
Introduction to Web Content Management Systems: Part One
Content Management System (CMS) software tools give even the smallest business the chance to have a first-rate, interactive web presence. Packed with powerful features, and easily extended with add-on modules, CMS tools reduce web site development time and costs while providing interactivity, distributed responsibility, security, convenience and significant cost savings.
Kephart, Tom. New Tech Heroes (2008). Articles>Content Management>Software>Open Source
