Jeff Croft: Design-heavy web agencies
As I’m sure you know, web applications have become much more common over the past few years. There are still plenty of content-oriented websites to be made, but more and more, what clients come to us for is apps. Based on the rosters of several high profile firms out there, it seems that most of the “developers” on the team are focused on the front-end (HTML/CSS/JS), and/or are what I like to call “CMS wranglers.” A CMS wrangler is one of those folks who can make Wordpress (or EE, or MT, or whatever) do just about anything imaginable, given enough time to hack. –Jeff Croft
Great article by Jeff, honestly questioning how web agencies get their development work done. This touches on some recent conversations I have had around what makes a Content Management System, and how I don’t see Wordpress, etc as valid options to build web applications. Be sure to check out the comments, too, as there is some good discussion there.