[Web4lib] CMS or something else?

[Francis Kayiwa]

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On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Tyson Tate wrote:

> On 9/1/06, Andrew Mutch <amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us> wrote:
>> You're kidding, right? No one actually still manages their web  
>> site like
>> this do they? With this kind of system, I would never have to  
>> worry about
>> job security. If I required all of my librarians to submit their  
>> content
>> to me, which I then reviewed for "the proper code and styles", and  
>> which I
>> alone, as the "gatekeeper" could add to the site, I could easily  
>> fill 40
>> hours a week with work.
>
> I guess it all depends on how valuable your content is to you. Do your
> librarians have the time to be trained in proper accessibility
> practices? Will they be able to follow your style guidelines? Does SEO
> matter for your in-house search tools?
>
> If everything could be taken care of with a slick CMS, why not just
> buy the CMS, set it up, and then fire the web team? After all, we
> don't need them to maintain the site, right?

Didn't seem like an either or situation. Good CMSs are generally  
bareboned and quite frankly not easy on the eye. Someone still needs  
to apply the "human" touch to them.

regards,
./fxk

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