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SIGIA-L Mail Archives – February 2003

Worthwhile thread named:
“Study: Content Management Tools Fail”
with varrying viewpoints on how CMS has evolved, failed to deliver on it’s promise and why.

A Blog network analysis attempt
Unfortunately, they’re using Standard Meta Tags and Dublin Core association instead of RDF semantics, but maybe thet will change. A noble effort none the less!
Blizg – The Blog Resource

Here we combine a module holding the banner with another which hold our global navigation. This gives us a couple things: 1) the ability to use them together so your templates look clean and neat, and 2) by keeping the components separated, the ability to use them separately, say if you just want the banner with no navigation in a transactional area.

It starts with the “header” area. On my site that area’s the same throughout, so there’s no reason to not have it in one generalized place. We’ll then include that in all of our templates which need it, and then when we edit it in one place the whole site will reflect the change.

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MovableType ships whith a series of tempaltes which do it’s bidding. What’s kind of silly about them, is that they are templates in that they are the basis for rendering your site, but they are not very abstract… that is, there is a lot of repitition.

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