A List Apart: Strategic Content Management
Jonathan Kahn talks strategic content management in the new issue of A List Apart:
Any web project more complex than a blog requires custom CMS design work. It’s tempting to use familiar tools, and try to shoehorn content in—but we can’t select the appropriate tool until we’ve figured out the project’s specific needs.
He then goes on to say:
Most of the time we select a CMS by popularity, cultural affiliation, or corporate edict—that is, without properly considering the content we’re supposed to be publishing. This is crazy. Instead, we should use a design process to select and customize a CMS, based on our content strategy and the editorial team’s needs. Jonathan Kahn, A List Apart #313
This article echos my sentiments on CMS's, and how we need to stop shoehorning a client's data structure into our boxed solutions. (Emphasis added by me)