Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating User Interfaces to Work Within a CMS

2010-02-18 Thread Thai Lam
Hi Jennifer. Over the past 4 years I've been working with CMS tools in maintaining site templating and content management. I've worked in Stellent but mostly in Percussion. Over the years I've actually taken control of doing the actual implementation and development both the CMS tools I've worked

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating User Interfaces to Work Within a CMS

2010-02-18 Thread Gala S Chase
I am working in a similar situation where we have limited page templates built in a CMS and limited developers to help create more custom pages. My biggest suggestion is to do some analysis of what your needs are, in regards to modules and templates. Use what you find to come up with 2 or 3 page

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating User Interfaces to Work Within a CMS

2010-02-17 Thread Adam Williams
How much control do you for the styling? I would make important action links look button like, without over doing it. Also, be creative with wording if you can't control the layout much. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ix

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating User Interfaces to Work Within a CMS

2010-02-17 Thread Thai Lam
Hi Jennifer, I've been working with two different CMS tools for the past 4 years. Stellent initially but more heavily these days with Percussion. They're both relatively robust systems so my opinions only from those experiences. CMS tools are mostly a one-to-one mapping for the primary template t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating User Interfaces to Work Within a CMS

2010-02-17 Thread Yvonnia Martin
I hear ya, Jennifer. I work with a coldfusion-based content management system and I don't think the community is as big and those of PHP and .Net. We have 1 developer on staff who for some reason or another, does not know the CMS at all (go figure). Anyway, we are totally locked into basically 4 te

[IxDA Discuss] Creating User Interfaces to Work Within a CMS

2010-02-17 Thread Jennifer Wolfgang
Hi all, I'll be honest, though I've worked in web design and development for almost 13 years, I've never - until now - had to work with a CMS on a static site. I've implemented an early version of eMPower (Ektron), but that was years ago and it was pretty basic: no 'templates' or 'modules' to be c