Comments on: Integrate your brochure site into your blog (updated advice)

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Squarespace Review » Posts about Squarespace as of October 27, 2009 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:42:11 +0000

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By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:42:35 +0000

Thanks maiki.

Yes, content management systems (CMS) are very important to make it easier to publish online without bowing down to a technological intermediary.

That said, I think the jargon “CMS” is offputting to nontechnical folks who really just care about their business, not the internet.

So a tutorial like this one is mainly a way to back them gently into the CMS concept by focusing on their needs and goals.

I think after they start using a CMS (because a blogging platform is just a kind of CMS) and seeing the results, they’ll be hooked on the CMS concept and then they can start dealing with it directly. It won’t be foreign, then.

- Amy Gahran

By: maiki

maiki — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:27:34 +0000

I think this is a much better set of steps to follow to get a site up and running.

One thing that I think we should push for on the internet is basic comprehension of CMS templating. That is to say, what “content” is, and how a CMS separates it from the design. For instance, I bet a lot of people think they need a third party to edit “pages” on their sites, instead of using a CMS to edit the content.

I will, of course, go over this in a future workshop. ^_^

By: Expanding a business brochure site into something that will really help your business — contentious.com

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:48:59 +0000

[...] IMPORTANT UPDATE: After discussing the following tip in the comments below, I decided that it’s better to integrate your existing brochure space into a blog, rather than vice versa. Read full instructions on how to get this done. [...]