Hoosgot

http://www.rumble.net/blog/index.cgi/geek/All_CMSes_suck.html asks Hoosgot,

I have a slide I use when presenting about content management systems to manglement types. Content management systems suck. They’re designed that way. The main idea behind them, in a corporate context, is to allow content to be published quickly by people who don’t know (much) HTML so that it fits within the existing structure. The trade-off is that it’s a whole lot less flexible. Anything you want to do that doesn’t fit into the built-in templates and structure is going to require some development. The reason I use this slide is to explain that there’s a middle ground in there. If you’re an enormous publishing organisation with daily deadlines and a team of editors, sub-editors and content approvers, then …

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