Ideas in Technology and Publishing: Why Content Management Projects Succeed or Fail proposes some interesting factors that contribute to successful CMS deployments.
Author Archives: David
Relationships vs. Content
I like this quote from Denham Grey’s recent post Knowledge-at-work: Corporate memory – the hard way:
knowledge flows via relationships not via access to static content
More Tips on Classification in MovableType
*Pixelcharmer: Field Notes: Classification and MT has pointers to some new tools for MT as well as some interesting background on top-down vs. bottom-up classification schemes.
Accessibility in the Private Sector: Not Happening
From David Crow: Website Accessibility in the Private Sector:
Ronald Milliman at Western Kentucky University has published a study analyzing private sector web sites for accessiblity. His results showed that 98.24% of the sites sampled failed the Bobby accessibility test for ADA Section 508 compatibility. The most interesting findings are that web designers were not knowledgeable of the exact techniques for making their site fully compliant (17.40% were knowledgeable) and that web designers did not feel that disabled users were a part of their target audience (42.07%).
VeriSign Wildcard
This article provides a pretty good summary of the issues around VeriSign’s recent action to take over all unassigned domains in .com and .net.
VeriSign redirects error pages
Criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign’s surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that has wreaked havoc on many e-mail utilities and antispam filters.
Browser Timelines
Ever wondered when certain browser versions were released? Browser Timelines gives you the answer.
Faceted Classification with MovableType
Tanya has posted a rather ingenious solution for creating a faceted classification system for posts in MovableType. This gets around the built-in functionality of MT that only allows one level of categories.
I love this closing line from her entry:
This is additional evidence to back up my observation that most problems in life can be solved with the creative use of regular expressions.
Death of the Marketing E-mail Signature
I’m having more issues with important e-mail getting caught in our corporate spam filter. In almost all cases they are messages from vendors that contain a signature block with a marketing message of some sort. I think these types of messages are doomed from now on. Imperfect spam filtering is a fact of life for the time being. Due to that, people will have to learn how to craft their messages in a way that does not trigger them if they want to communicate via e-mail. A good start is to pull those marketing messages from your signature.
Zeldman on Designing with Web Standards
Jeffrey Zeldman’s presentation on Designing With Web Standards has been posted to the web. I’m in the process of reading his book with the same name and find it very inspiring, which is an odd (yet great!) thing to say about a book on xhtml and css design. He lays out very clearly why standards are important, not just from a technological point of view but more so on the costs savings, greater efficiency and increases accessibility that can be achieved by adhering to standards. View the presentation and buy the book!
HR-XML
hr-xml.org — Home of the HR-XML Consortium, Inc. Lots of schemas for use in storing various types of employee data.
C. David Gammel, CAE 