how content delegation and web-standards compliancy are reflected in your site stats

Screenshot of DAS Web siteWhat does it take to be successful on the Web? The answer to that is simple and yet not so simple: Provide relevant information. Make it easy to discover… >>> Read the rest of this guest article on Dr. Terry Etherton’s blog at
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migrating your site to plone

The following presentation, “Migrating Your Site to Plone” was given at the Penn State Web Conference on June 9, 2008. You may view a screencast of the presentation slides accompanied by audio of the speakers, or just listen to the audio.

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an example proposal for adopting plone

This proposal is loosely based on what I wrote for my own shop. However, I am fortunate to work in a highly clueful department. Making the case for adopting an open-source enterprise-level content management system was not an arduous task.

Plone LogoFrequently, potential adopters of Plone at universities tell me that they have a difficult time convincing administration within their organizations that Plone — or any open-source content management system, for that matter — is worth the investment of time and effort. Or in the case of Penn State’s WebLion services, any consulting fees that may be involved.

With that in mind, I’m sharing the following example proposal for adopting Plone at the university department level. If you are striving to convince your organization to adopt Plone, feel free to make use of any part of this material for your own justification.
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always crashing in the same car: recurring misuses of higher education web sites - replicate, replicate, replicate

Aside from the usual reasons why it’s silly to duplicate static content from Web page to Web page, here is yet another: Read the rest of this entry »

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how to make the worst of your content management system

I recently heard tell of the following activity, parading as content migration to an enterprise level content management system. I am not making this up:

  1. Copy large volumes of Web-content-to-be, page by page, into separate Dreamweaver files containing the design (created and sliced up in FireWorks)
  2. Copy/paste said Dreamweaver files into content wells of the content management system
  3. Repeat this activity ad infinitum until an entire Web presence is constructed in this fashion

When I heard this, something inside me snapped.
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