Jeffrey Veen on CMSs

I've just been reading the UI9 Interview with Jeffrey Veen on Content Management systems... It's a great article and brings back a lot of memories of writing a CMS for the company I used to work for. He puts into words a lot of the things I was battling with at the time and he has a few hints that would have been invaluable to me back then. Amongst other things:

Start simple. Most companies don't need clever CMS implementations.

Treat the website like a publication not a software product.

Look carefully at the content process before looking at products - you may find you don't need a fully-blown CMS at all.

Now I think about it, the article is relevent to me and my site as well. I've been considering moving to a proper blogging app for a while now because I simply don't have either the time or the inclination to develop my own CMS any further but I've managed to get by with what is basically just a jumped-up database editor for over a year and a half. The vast majority of small-medium sized business sites probably don't have requirements much more demanding than me but it'd never really occurred to me to ask that sort of question. That's why the Man Veen is considered an expert!

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