We are now in a time where static HTML sites just won’t do. We have moved from a workflow where every page was built in an editor like FrontPage (hopefully not) or Dreamweaver to building just a template and using a CMS (content management system) to place the content into the template. This sounds great but there is a major flaw in every CMS I have seen that currently exists. End users do not equal computer experts.

I can spend as much time training a client on how to use a CMS, no matter if it is Joomla, Drupal, or wordpress, as I do building the whole site. Most of the problems they encounter are trivial things that were easy back when they used Dreamweaver or some wysiwyg front-end editor (I say front-end because they were looking at what looked like the page, not a back-end control panel). “How do I insert an image on the page?” or “How do I change the page title?” and the most common of course, “How do I add a page?”. In trying to make content management systems flexible, adding a simple page means you must first make a content item Read the rest of this entry »