CMS: Useful Wins Again
Posted by Webozaurus on April 30, 2012
It’s been almost twenty years since the first branded Content Management Systems (CMSs) hit the market. They were an unbearable kluge back then, and didn’t work well; but hey, if you had a bajillion dollars to toss at MarchFirst or any one of hundreds of other pre-dot-bomb era consultancies, you could have a half-baked Web CMS, delivered by a team of twenty dot-commers living large on VC funds, and talkin’ you up in Red Herring or Business 2.0 Magazine. Hey, who doesn’t want that?
The fast times flourished, and whoever could spew the most syllables per second of consultant-speak won the CMS implementation gig (seriously). Could designers design with it? Nope. Were writers or sitebuilders creating content with them? Not with WordPerfect or Claris Homepage in the next room. Nope, CMSs’ usefulness was often an afterthough …
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