Avoid Mountains of Work - Get a CMS Sooner than Later
Written by Rosalind Gardner on July 23, 2007 · Comments (3)
Filed Under Build a Site, Web Site Design Software ·
If you arrived here via NPT’s homepage today, you’ve already seen the site’s ‘new look’.
Granted, I didn’t change the design very much, but the ArticleLive back-end is absolutely b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l! Now I won’t have to revise and upload 100’s of HTML pages every time I make a change to the basic template - yee-ha!
When I told Anik Singal that I was going to a new CMS, he mentioned that he really liked the original NPT layout because it was ’so easy to find what you’re looking for’. Well, finding the information you want should now be even easier with well-defined categories, featured articles with links to related articles and reviews.
The only downside to changing over to ArticleLive was that I made it a D-I-Y project. Duh.
Ergo, not all of my 100’s of articles are in the database yet, and there may be linking problems from within some of the older articles (if you find an error, please be kind and let me know), but the essential articles are all there and I’ll go through them with a fine-tooth comb to make sure they’re up-to-date and linked to the most helpful resources.
So, words to the wise. Get a great CMS when when you start your site (not 5 years into it) and avoid a HUGE mountain of work later.
Anyway, now that I’ve scaled that mountain, it’s time for some R&R in the Rockies. Yee-HAAAAAA!
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3 Responses to “Avoid Mountains of Work - Get a CMS Sooner than Later”
Jim on July 23rd, 2007 11:41 am
I know, I know,
I should know what a D-I-Y and a CMS is. However, I don’t.
Help,
Jim
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Victor on July 23rd, 2007 12:00 pm
I will like to know the actual difference between CMS and Blog. I really like the CMS. The design is quite fantastic. But Newbie in internet business cannot really afford the cost of CMS. One one more thing! I will like to know if I will be paying a yearly licence fee for the CMS.
Thanks for your mentorship.
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Rosalind Gardner on July 23rd, 2007 12:45 pm
Hi Victor, Hi Jim!
My bad - my very, very bad!
A CMS is a content management system, D-I-Y is ‘do it yourself’ and the difference between a CMS and a blog - well, a blog is a content management system.
That said, ArticleLive is much more robust than your standard Wordpress blog, especially in terms of creating categories for articles and pages. I found that the page system in Wordpress was just getting way too unwieldy.
Hope that helps!
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