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Boris Mann Raincity Studios http://www.raincitystudios.com http://bmannconsulting.com The 3 Stages of CMS

If I had a tag cloud鈥� Bryght Raincity Vancouver tech evangelist Drupal open source hand waver beer XMPP social software Northern Voice

Uh oh. Is he just going to talk about Drupal?

But I鈥檓 not going to be a Dick

Uh oh. Is this one of those talks? (thinks the guy in the back) (be thankful: at the last minute, I almost switched everything to Comic Sans )

Oh, and if I don鈥檛 mention your favourite dynamic system, it鈥檚 because it sux. (actually, it鈥檚 all about interoperable systems, but that鈥檚 probably someone else鈥檚 presentation)

INTERACTIVE! (I鈥檇 like to keep asking you questions)

The 3 stages of dynamic systems. Ugh. Sounds like a thesis.

Do I need to convince you that 鈥渄ynamic systems鈥� are where we鈥檙e at? CMS, web apps, RSS feeds, etc. (there鈥檚 that pesky thing about dynamic being great for SEO, too)

So, here鈥檚 the think: every single 鈥減age鈥� is becoming a dynamic system all by itself. (Insert hand waving)

Furthermore, implementing basic features (such as comments or forums, or a flexible array of RSS feeds, or a decent site search engine) is needlessly complex and difficult in Dreamweaver. 鈥� Because online journalism without such basic features is crippled. Dreamweaver Sux

This is the part where you tell me about 鈥渟tatic鈥� pages.

Now we鈥檙e going to build an OpenID server in just one 鈥渟tatic鈥� page.

Bonus slide: Remember when your business model was updating individual pages? (We鈥檙e actually going to come back to the business model thing)

The 3 stages Designing for dynamic systems Choosing open source Plugin mania Frameworks

frack There is SO much to talk about (Maybe we should just listen to Oberkirch鈥檚 presentation again)

The 3 Stages Simple content management dude, the client wants to edit their own content Beyond the blog calendars. and forums. better add a wiki, too Building web applications I鈥檓 pretty sure we need a custom function for that

Of course that鈥檚 too simplistic. There are stages within those. Upgrades. Redesigns. Budget. Level of technical expertise.

How many people use a version control system?

Web Applications At some point you wake up and realize you鈥檙e adding custom functionality to something that started as 鈥渏ust a website鈥� Congratulations! You鈥檝e got your very own web application! user profiles, personalization

4th Stage 鈥淧ower of remixable data鈥� (insert Brian Oberkirch鈥檚 presentation here)

RSS. APIs. Microformats. OpenID. OAuth. Attribute Exchange. (RDF and the Semantic Web鈥aybe)

Got any other names or labels for types of sites? Does your company slot a customer into a type?

Designing for Dynamic Systems The new site map Templates UGC sux (Note: presenter is not an actual designer)

The new site map A sitemap used to be literally every page in a site Now, it鈥檚 more like an outline of the templates that have to be built Type of page Landing page Maybe: APIs, different types of feeds鈥nd admin screens, too

Templates Need to be designing across the entire site Use a grid Use realistic example text e.g. long names; like Really Long Name That No One Will Enter Oh yeah, and you should probably plan for users

UGC Sux Your design is finished, then.... comments! forum posts! italics, bold, break tags, and more

UGC Sux Less? Include styles for UGC Strip out / close tags Live preview Image resizing (crop / scale / placement)

Template LANGUAGE?! This is the ultimate Designer meet Developer CSS is programming! And then the developer was all, like, just learn this little code snippet鈥�

That was a cheap shot. But, MSFT made fun of my hair once

Push vs. pull is kind of interesting.

TEMPLATES. Whatever. They鈥檙e all painful. Suggestions? (I鈥檓 pretty sure any phrases involving XML and/or XSLT transforms is going to be painful)

Choosing Open Source Open source doesn鈥檛 mean free Become an expert Small local firms rolling their own

What鈥檚 your business model? It鈥檚 probably not selling bits What are you actually selling? It probably is process, expertise, design Maybe a side of services (but, like Josh said, hosting sux)

.NET open source? (Sharepoint, not so much, unfortunately. Plugins, maybe?)

Community Return on Investment (ROI)

Why the frack is this guy talking about open source?

Three choices? Resell someone else鈥檚 code Use open source Roll your own (I know we鈥檙e in Vangroovy. But rolling your own is not cool .)

A story about local web design dev firms.

Everybody else鈥檚 code sux! I鈥檓 building my own! I鈥檓 going to get $paid$ to code more stuff, too.

Wait鈥hat鈥檚 your business model again?

Of course鈥� 鈥pen source SUX. It鈥檚 badly documented, it鈥檚 unsupported, and it doesn鈥檛 work like it says on the box. (but at least you鈥檝e got someone else to blame)

We鈥檙e all in this together. Going open probably means more of the open web gets built more quickly.

Anyone got some business models to share? (it鈥檚 all about the icons and Facebook apps)

Plugins and Modules Virtually all systems have a way to extend the base Sweet! New functionality for free! Except鈥� Installation, training, configuration Updates and security 鈥淛ust one more tweak鈥� to the design

We鈥檙e going to take an interlude to the base of the system you鈥檙e using.

Well, if you鈥檙e going to hack, make some patches.

Back to plugins鈥� (They鈥檙e like hacking without the hack)

Build up a set of features / list of plugins that you know are good. Covet them. Don鈥檛 add to them. Have a backup plan. (Like: this goes on the we might add this in phase 1 list. Might.)

Of course, you can build your own. (Oooh! Maybe this is your business plan?)

Designers: make some mock ups. If they鈥檙e pretty, developers will want to build it. (can you crowdsource your next website?)

Clients/Users: maybe you have the same pain as other people. Can you fund a common solution? Can you make an existing one suck less?

Developers: please don鈥檛 re-invent the wheel. (Except, sometimes, we need a crazy one to do things differently)

Got any cool plugins to share?

Frameworks 100s (thousands?) of frameworks Rails (Ruby) Django (Python) Symfony (PHP) (Note: building from scratch is not an option) (No, really, it isn鈥檛)

Where is it going to be deployed? PHP tends to run everywhere. (Tip: sneak PHP into enterprise by deploying it on a Java stack)

Real programmers tend to love just about anything better than PHP. Except for Java.

Are there people locally that use your framework? (There are tons of TYPO3 users in Germany)

Don鈥檛 forget about libraries!

Yeah, I know the frameworks bit in here was short. Did you think I was going to start a flame war? Got something else to share?

The web is only going to get more dynamic.

All these things need to talk to each other.

Think about your business model.

And I didn鈥檛 even talk about internationalization. (the English web is a pretty small place)

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