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Ben is an IT Consultant and Architect specializing in web applications, online marketing and content management.
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Confluence 3.4: usability goodness
Atlassian just released Confluence 3.4. While there are no heavy duty enhancements in this release, there’s a couple of usability enhancements that were long overdue, especially Keyboard shortcuts. I always wanted to have at least the ‘/’ shortcut. User Macros … Continue reading
CMS Essentials: In-Context editing – What you see is what they get
Virtually all CMS vendors claim to provide “What you see is what you get” capabilities. That terms has come to be accepted for something that is pretty different from what it means in e.g. DTP and word processing, where it … Continue reading
CMS Essentials: Talk to the CMS Vendor
For the important decisions you make in a CMS project, talk to the CMS vendor and get their blessing (or not). Not all CMS projects are created equal. Although most products provide straightforward paths for the most common use cases … Continue reading
ITM: be on the passive side early on
So the Internet Time Machine, according to a recent CMSWire article “aims to help companies with great ideas get ahead of the curve”. I’m not sure that this is actually the typical use case. ITM rather seems to be a … Continue reading
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What’s different in a CMS Project: People, Processes, Mixed Cargo (Part 2: Transition)
The first part of this article looked at how a CMS project differs from other projects. This part will look at how the transition from traditional web publishing processes to a CMS world changes people’s lives, and how to best … Continue reading
CMS Essentials: Design for Authors
When you design templates and the pieces that go inside them, have both the web user and the author in mind. Authors are writers, not parts assemblers. It’s important to understand how the page that is designed translates into an … Continue reading
What’s different in a CMS Project: People, Processes, Mixed Cargo
A CMS project is special in many ways. Each and every aspect of the project is influenced by the CMS environment and the traditional roles and processes of web projects need to be remodeled and adjusted. The term project is … Continue reading
How the Adobe / Day deal affects the ASF and the OS community
Adobe and Day Software today announced that they have a done deal that will be executed this year. The move is exciting (if not totally unexpected) and makes total sense from an Adobe and a Day perspective. Let’s have a … Continue reading