CMF - Web Site Brainstorm
"Planning is the key to successful content management, and you can't buy planning in a box. Content management is a deliberate process. This may seem obvious, but let me just make it clear that you have to plan.
"Planning involves:
- "Thinking about and identifying what your problems are
- "Listing what is needed to solve these problems
- "Developing a process to move forward and meet your requirements"
--Phil Suh: Content Management Systems
Web Site Problems
- Maintenance = Hand crafted -> workload
- Hard to make Global (format/content) changes
- Consistency - STYLE
- Technical conflicts (NAVBAR/JAVA)
- DREAMWEAVER/HTML too complex
- MultiPlatform / SW
- BROKEN LINKS/ORPHAN PP.
- WHO OWNS PAGE? Responsibility
- ACCESS CONTROL
- KEEPING UP with STANDARDS (WEB/ACCESSIBILITY)
- STALE CONTENT
- PAGE DESIGN - USABILITY
- UNCLEAR RESPONSIBILITIES (CONTENT/DESIGN)
- LACK of TIME TO MAINTAIN
- SYNCHRONIZING DUPLICATE CONTENT
- SHEER SIZE of SITE
- TRAINING MAINTAINERS
- STORAGE ISSUES - OLD PAGES
- WORKLOAD ISSUES Re: Programming CMS software
- CULTURE of PAGE "OWNERSHIP"
- NOT ALL PAGES HAVE TO BE ON BOARD on DAY 1
- HAVE TO MEET EXTERNAL CRITERIA (GOLD STANDARD/ACCESSIBILITY/LICENCE AGREEMENTS)
Web Site Strengths
- SEARCH ENGINES FOR SITE
- SITE MAP/INDEX
- GROUPS TO MAINTAIN (BACKUPS) = SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
- WEBOPS
- CONTRIBUTIONS OF MANY (SELECTORS/USER SERVICES)
- LOOK & FEEL & USABILITY of MAIN PAGES
- COLLABORATION with TUG (SOMETIMES [STRENGTH & SOURCE of HEADACHES])
- CONTACT NAME FOR MANY P.P.
- OPPORTUNITY for USER FEEDBACK
- TEXT-ONLY VERSION of SOME P.P.
August 2, 2005
