21. The side effects of stretching your CMS
• Makes upgrading more complicated
• Can increase maintenance costs
• More things to break = more things to fix
• You might have to compromise on functionality
22. Pushing the CMS to perform against its core
functionality wasn’t a good idea.
23. Pushing the CMS to perform against its core
functionality wasn’t a good idea.
Leave the CMS doing what its meant to:
24. Pushing the CMS to perform against its core
functionality wasn’t a good idea.
Leave the CMS doing what its meant to:
Content Management
35. These were our aims for the site:
1. Easy to use Forms
2. Increase number applications
3. Make it a place to share
4. Build an archive of projects
5. Reflect the creativity of the projects
51. [video]
Video from Cultural Awards website.
Wagga Wagga City Council
From All Four Corners – Celebrating Diversity: Mitsue
Stockley - Love Lives On
http://culturalawards2008.lgsa.org.au/projects/14-from-all-
four-corners---celebrating-diversity/videos/3
55. The CMS couldn’t do...
“Fun” forms
Blogs and forums
Video or Audio
User Generated Content
RSS feeds
56. If we had used the CMS:
One BIG online form (or PDF!)
No blogs or forums, or linked to external site
Links to video and audio
No user Generated Content
(unless we did a lot of cutting and pasting)
No RSS feeds
57. Or we would have had to
customise the CMS
(again)
58. “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
65. Branding and Design
User Experience
Where is your traffic coming from?
What are the users expectations?
Should it be the same or different?
Is it a website or an application?
If application - different expectations.
66. If it’s all new, make it:
intuitive
simple
provide instructions
show examples
67. Tips to help you make
the choice between
CMS
and
Custom
72. 1. Learn the limits of your CMS
2. Have clearly defined goals
3. Don’t take on to much
4. Get HELP from an expert if you’re not
73. 1. Learn the limits of your CMS
2. Have clearly defined goals
3. Don’t take on to much
4. Get HELP from an expert if you’re not
(make sure they are unbiased)
74. Choose the option that:
The platform supports
Best matches the goals
That you can support
Consider what the “expert” recommends
75. If you do decide to
pack up your bags...
and go Custom