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Working in a Multi- platform Environment Diana Mounter Design and Development Coordinator LGSA
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Working in a Multi-Platform Environment

Dec 03, 2014

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Diana Mounter

I organised the Local Government Web Network first annual conference together with my Reem, called We Believe in Community. This is my presentation on working with your CMS and custom builds.
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Working in a Multi-platform Environment

Diana MounterDesign and Development Coordinator

LGSA

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This is my experience,

please share yours.

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we must streamline

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Content Management

Systems

the solution to your problems!

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Tempting

blogsvideosonline

payments

forums Image maps

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Before you know it… you’ve created a

MONSTER!

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What happens when your CMS eats to much cake?

• Makes upgrading more complicated

• May increase costs of your MSA (if you have one)

• More things to break = more things to fix

• You may have to make a compromise on functionality

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Now what?

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pack up your bags…

and go custom

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“Custom?Why would we spend the money doing that? We’re not special.”

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video

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Did that make an impact?

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The CMS couldn’t do…(without customisation)

blogsvideosforums

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forms

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Why did we decide to go custom?

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“This is typical! They do these cheap jobs to save money, but then they end up spending more money fixing all the things that break”

- the plumber

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Don’t take on more than you

can handle

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But wait!

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What about your Content Management System?

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CMS Cultural Awards

Links

Media Releases

Branding/Identity

XML feeds

Twitter Email subscribersRSS feeds

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There are no magic tricks

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Thank you