[Web4lib] CMS or something else?

[Tyson Tate]

Major downside to Contribute: You have to prefix ALL CSS selector
names that you don't want shown to content writers with "mmhide-".
That means that most of your class and ids will end up being something
like mmhide-booktitle, etc.

I have 2,000 lines of CSS in our redesigned site. Short answer, coming
from a web developer: I banish Contribute from the land!

(And, not to mention, we have enough troubles with Dreamweaver. The
piece of junk! *grumble* ;-)

-Tyson

On 9/1/06, McHale, Nina <nina.mchale at cudenver.edu> wrote:
> Contribute--while it's not a full-blown CMS, depending on your
> definition of the word--does this. It's WYSIWYG; in fact, no code view
> is even available, and the user interface looks more like MS Word than
> Dreamweaver. Web authors create new files based on HTML templates that
> the webmaster creates beforehand in Dreamweaver. So, once the template
> is there, authors can grab the template, create a new file from it, put
> in their content without seeing a single tag, and publish with no extra
> markup required by yours truly. It still requires me to come up with the
> templates, obviously, but I don't have to touch every file that goes out
> there. Other editorial checks are in place for content; for example, the
> instruction coordinator has to approve content on any new subject
> guides. But, it never has to come to me.
>
> Nina