By:
Ben Herrington on
Wed, Aug, 18 2010,
under
CMS,
e-commerce
I've been working a lot lately on e-commerce websites. I'm
working with three different clients, in three different
industries, with three different e-commerce needs. And yet all
three had the same viewpoint, initially: "What's so hard about
e-co...
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By:
Ben Herrington on
Wed, Mar, 24 2010,
under
CMS,
website,
design
One of
the most commonly unanswered questions in implementing a website
content management system is: How do you want to divvy up the
content? The answer can depend on the technical limitations of the
CMS, but more often it depends on the content...
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By:
Ben Herrington on
Wed, Oct, 21 2009,
under
CMS
When it comes to usability in content management systems, for
the editor the details make all the difference.
That point was driven home this week while migrating content
from our current CMS, Joomla!, to our new CMS, Umbraco. Now both
Joomla! a...
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By:
Scott Blomfield on
Mon, May, 04 2009,
under
CMS,
Umbraco
The XPath Answer
Sometimes I need to find umbraco content nodes by name, and then
pull a property from the node. This is a bit frustrating, because
umbraco doesn't provide a way to do that - everything is alias or
id, and sometimes you just don'...
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By:
Ben Herrington on
Sun, May, 03 2009,
under
CMS,
website
Maybe it's a coincidence, but three times this week I have
talked to companies who are unhappy with their websites. "It looks
good, but it doesn't do anything for my business," they say. "How
come nobody uses my website?"
So we talked it through...
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