May
24
In my previous post, I wrote about HTML mock-ups and their importance. To extend on the same point, it is really important that sample of the actual content that needs to go on the page needs to be part of mock-up as well. In my previous experience, I have encountered various situations where lourel ipsum …
May
20
Are you a good CMS user? CM instinct are part of our day to day life. The thinking about CMS usage starts from our day to day job. Think about what all you do as a normal day for a moment and read on. I am into consulting and spend most of the time using …
May
16
Most of the well known Portal products in market comes with some form or shape of web content management systems. The supplied WCM tools are very basic while other are funcionality rich. For example: IBM’s Web content Manager (previously called Lotus WWCM) is very tightly integrated with WebSphere Portal. The product was originally was acquired …
Apr
19
Expectations = : the act or state of looking forward or anticipating. something expected; a thing looked forward to. the degree of probability that something will occur. Statistics . mathematical expectation. Yesterday I was playing with my son and he was behind me to get more and more chocolates from me. And I was trying …
Apr
13
Recently there was post from Irina Guseva from Real Story Group around CQ5 WCM development skills are hot — and scarce. This is not the case just with CQ but with an niche product. I have worked in Fatwire during its Open Market and Divine days in India and it was soo tough to get …
Apr
01
Some days back I wrote about sign-off’s value in a WCM project lifecycle. Recently, I came acoss a perfect example to showcase the same. We recently launched a website based on signed-off requirements, signed-off wireframes, signed-off designs, signed-off HTML mock-ups, signed-off browser support, signed-off content etc. All worked perfectly until two super high priority stuff …
Mar
24
Each and every project has milestones and one of the important milestone is the sign-off of various artifacts including site designs, wireframes, functional specification, HTML mock-ups, content etc. With the WCM projects, my exeprience of sign-off is just a formality but in reality it doesn’t hold any vlaue. And the reason: changes and more changes …
Mar
20
Few days back I posted some information around Day’s CQ Separation of Content from Components. There was some good discussion around the topic in one of the CQ group. Here is information from group discussion: From Paul McMahon, Acquity Group I think this is a common mis-perception – that because a component defines both content …
Mar
15
I am almost two impelementation’s old with Day’s CQ WEM. When I started with CQ product, one thing which kept me guessing within CQ was the separation of content from presentation. As per my understanding of CQ, a component is the one which holds data, dialogs to capture information and presenting the information. One of …
Mar
10
With the develpment in CMS area, there is all the more push in the market for websites to move to a CMS system, large or small, to manage their content. As a result there are lots of new initiatives for grounds-up CMS implementation. Usually, a CMS product starts with HTML a set of HTML mock-ups …
