CMS Dos and Don’ts
Alt Tags has a nice article on selecting a CMS. It’s geared mainly towards the decision makers…not necessarily the implementers, but there’s plenty of valuable information to be gleaned from it.
The key points to take from it are that an organization must first focus on its content before it even attempts to figure out how to manage it. And, once that task is completed, it may make the most sense to start small with a trial run of a small CMS tool to get some more insight into how things work. Too many organizations dive into a highly inflexible, complicated CMS tool that is more often than not a hindrance to managing content properly only to suffer through it since the money was spent.
As a follow up to that article, check out Alt Tags more recent post on Accessibility and Content Authors. The post mirrors my current experience at a government organization. We all know we need more content out on our web site. We all know that that content needs to be accessible. Yet, inevitably, most of the content still remains is Word or PDF files…which are rarely built with accessibility in mind. No specific solution proposed, but it’s an issue that warrants more exposure.
