Archive for March, 2009

Alterian CMS Meme Response

March 23rd, 2009 - 10:06 am § in Content Management, Observations | | 14 Comments
At the beginning of last week a CMS 'meme' broke out, where CMS vendor bloggers were challenged to reveal something about their products functionality and then tag other vendors to do similar. Day kicked this off from their developer site using a set of questions posted by Kas Thomas at CMS Watch, In this post, I make a belated Alterian contribution. [ read more ]

Build It and they will Build It and they will Build It and they…

March 17th, 2009 - 4:34 pm § in Observations | | 1 Comment
Inspired by a blog post by Ron Miller, where he comments on an article by Clay Johnson, that states that Content Management Systems just don't work and you should seriously consider building one yourself. Really? Clearly with my background this got my attention... [ read more ]

"Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive…"

March 9th, 2009 - 4:09 pm § in Persuasive Content | | No Comments
Is your website is a living thing? While I am sure you wouldn't cast your website in the role of a monster, this classic line from the 1931 Frankenstein film captures that moment, when your website bursts into activity, that blip on your website statistics graph.  "Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive..." Of course your website is not a monster – it’s a beautiful thing, someone in the web team has given you a puppy. [ read more ]