Everyone is drowning in files.Logos, photos, videos, decks, and that one final final brochure. We think a shared folder will save the day, then the folder grows three heads. People keep asking for the logo. Someone ships a banner with the wrong shade of blue and a client spots it…
Category: Content Management Systems
The evolution from CMS to DXP. Headless vs. headful architectures, AEM, platform comparisons, and choosing the right content management approach.
Hippo CMS in Practice: Channels and Components
Hippo CMS has a way of making late nights bearable. Picture this. Content editors ping me because the mobile home page looks nothing like the desktop one. They swear they moved a promo into the top slot. I open the Channel Manager, switch to the mobile channel, and there it…
AEM Workflows for Real Editorial Teams
AEM workflows are sold as the safety net for content. In real newsrooms and brand teams, they can also be the bottleneck. The trick is turning the out of the box models into something editors actually use when the clock is ticking. Today’s piece is about Adobe CQ5 slash AEM…
Squirrel My Go To Database Controller
“The best database tool is the one you actually open every day. For me that is Squirrel.” Why Squirrel stuck with me I keep a lot of tools around for data work. MySQL Workbench looks nice, psql is always there, and on the Mac side Sequel Pro is friendly. Still,…
Magnolia CMS: Light Modules and Editorial Flow
\n It was one of those late afternoon calls. The client had a press release that needed to go live before dinner. Their editor was staring at a WYSIWYG that acted like a flip phone. Every save felt like roulette. We moved the piece into Magnolia CMS, clicked through an…
Drupal for Communities in : Modules that Matter
Drupal for communities: modules that matter I was sitting with a neighborhood group in a coffee shop, laptops open, arguing about where to host their new community. Someone said Ning. Another said a Facebook Group. The oldest person in the room leaned in and asked a simple thing. Do we…
Why Joomla Took Off in
Make it simple enough that a volunteer can run it, and flexible enough that a pro wants to. a Joomla meetup note scribbled on a napkin Joomla took off last year. If you build sites for real people with real deadlines, you felt it. The phones rang more. Budgets loosened…
Roller CMS in : Java Blogging with Control
Roller CMS keeps popping up every time I talk with Java folks who want a serious blog without giving up control. WordPress and Blogger are everywhere, which is great for quick starts. But if your stack is Java and you want your blog living inside your world, Apache Roller is…
JSPWiki in Practice: Small but Capable
Small tools rarely make a splash. They just show up, do the work, and keep quiet. JSPWiki in Practice sits right in that space. It is a Java wiki that feels modest at first glance, yet it carries more than enough muscle for a team that wants a shared brain…
Migrating a Small Site to Joomla: Lessons
I just moved a tiny brochure site into Joomla and lived to write about it. Four pages, one contact form, a list of services, and a blog that was really two posts from last spring. The owner wants to add content without touching HTML, maybe post news weekly, and get…