The Great CMS debate

This post grows out of a brief email conversation between Andy and myself regarding the CMS service models on campus. During our conversation, Andy asked me to share some of our experiences in Arts & Sciences as they relate to CMS selection support, policies and so on – so I am delighted to extend our [...]

Microsoft to launch beta of Internet Explorer 8

CNet reports today that Microsoft will soon be making a beta of IE8 available. From CNet:
Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year.
The Web site ActiveWin on Monday published the contents of a beta invitation, which said Microsoft [...]

How to Transition to a CMS

For many web developers, the idea of transitioning to a content management system (CMS) is both appealing and frightening. It’s appealing because of how easy it would be to manage once everything is converted. It’s frightening because when you have a large, mostly static site, transitioning to a database-driven CMS requires a lot of work, [...]

Open-source CMS and UA: The floor is open

So we’re kicking off an exploratory phase into selecting and centrally supporting a UA-wide standardized open-source content management system.  As time goes by, it’s more and more apparent that our campus as a whole needs a central option for maintaining web content, particularly since we’re so decentralized in terms of how web sites are created and [...]

Learning from a counterpart’s experiences…

I went to the EduWeb conference this year, where the keynote speaker was Virginia Tech’s web communications director, Michael Dame.  His address was a behind-the-scenes look at the hours and days and weeks that his team spent responding to the tragedy in Blacksburg on April 16th of this year.  I was particularly interested in how [...]