Crossing The Great Content Model Divide
What happens today?
Delivering and maintaining large web sites is hard. It requires the business team to communicate what they want and for the technology team to deliver what they need. The two groups are known for not getting on. For a web project to succeed, they must eat from the same table, [...]
From Site Map to Content Hierarchy
Site Map
What is a site map? Its a helicopter view of a web site with all the pages arranged in a easy to view and/or accessible manner. The best site maps fit onto a single page. For the more complex sites out there, the ability to drill down into specific areas of [...]
Content First
Say you’ve been asked to buy a suit for someone you’ve never met. What do you do first?
Buy the suit.
Meet & Measure them.
For design-led projects, we’re buying that suit first. By damn, one way or another that content will well fit into that design and look good! Of course I’m exaggerating a [...]
Content Modelling – First Steps
Whenever I start out on a new project, I aim to deliver demonstrably value back to the customer. I try to make an immediate change for better. After all, that’s what they pay me for. For content-oriented projects, a large part of that is knowing what information the customer thinks is [...]
Content Modelling
For any content managed web site, content types are its first class citizens. Content types describe the chunks of information that companies depend upon to conduct their business. Things like events, news, products, journals, flights, holidays, adverts, campaigns and call to actions. All possible content types. Yet, when talk to business [...]
