Well since we haven't yet been able to get our organization to adopt a real CMS, we do everything either with Contribute or focused, scratch written CF apps to manage news and such.
I don't find the things you describe to be Contribute's strong point. The problem isn't in writing the news article, it's great for that. It's what you do with the article once it's written that is the problem. Typically you'll want it to be linked from some news headlines page. And then you might want to have old news headlines drop to an archive page. But with Contribute, that all has to be done manually. No automation. I'm right there with you though about implementing stuff for people who are "too busy" to maintain it. Contribute doesn't help with that, unless the problem is really that the existing systems are too much trouble to bother with and that translates to "too busy". I can say though that for our static content sites using Contribute, our maintenance time has dropped off significantly. -Kevin On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:42:36 -0500, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great synopses from you guys. > > FYI, I would only suggest this to clients who like to update press > releases, news articles, simple content changes. That is really all our > clients want. > > Most of the time, we see clients that want a full CMS system, we provide > it, then they end up just having us do the updates, as their staff usually > ends up being too busy to deal with it. We have actually convinced > potential clients to ditch their full CMS thoughts based on this > principle. Wondering if anyone else has found this to be true also? > > Ray ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:139840 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
