Thoughts and commentary on the latest internet technologies
Content Management vs. Content Repositories vs. Content Platforms
In this article, we look at the difference between a CMS and a content repository, and how and why you might decide that a content repository is the right technology for your expanding content requirements.
New video: Priocept on Sitecore
Priocept's Principal Consultant, Matthew Skelton, talks about Sitecore's excellent support for multi-lingual websites including Arabic.
Ten Development Tips For Testable Websites
Developing web applications can be optimised to make the Test cycle quicker and more thorough. The HTML mark up - if written with automation in mind - will make automated test vastly easier to write and maintain, allowing builds to be more robust and code to be released more frequently with a higher quality. Furthermore, adopting a defensive approach to data validation and processing will lead to much more secure applications.
Magnolia Training – The Magnolia Publishing Model
This example follows a site editor making minor changes to a page in a Magnolia CMS website and a site publisher reviewing that change before publishing it for public viewing. It uses the Magnolia CMS Demo Area, hosted by Magnolia International to provide an area for exploring and practising.
Ten Tips for Testing Web Applications
Testing is an often under-appreciated part of the software life cycle. Timelines will shift, there will be delays with the development and the testing phase is the part the suffers. Here we have compiled a list of tips to help increase the productivity of testing and to help avoid releasing bugs into production and keep a high level of quality in the software released.
Magnolia Training – An Introduction to Magnolia Instances
Magnolia CMS's publishing mechanism revolves around the concept of a server used for creating, editing and previewing content, available only to a limited group of users and known as the authoring instance, and one or more publicly accessible servers which operate in a read-only style, serving content over the web and known as public instances. In this short tutorial, we describe the concept.
Videos of Content Platform seminar
Here is the video of the seminar we gave recently at Internet World 2011 on the Content Platform we built for TUI Travel.
Success at Internet World 2011
Now that Internet World 2011 is over, we can look back on a hugely successful week at Earl's Court in London. Read for photographs of our stand and the seminar last week.
Slides from Content Platform seminar at Internet World 2011
Here are the slides from the seminar on Content Platforms given by our Principal Consultant, Matthew Skelton, at Internet World last week
International Software Applications – Part 2
In Part 1 of this two part post, we looked at the basics of international software, and how to plan your project to best support the demands of international applications. In this second post, we look at using local market knowledge to speed up localisation efforts, the pros and cons of a translation management system, and some ways to avoid mobile app "sprawl".