Hi Joanne, I am working with a university that implemented a CMS system about a year ago. My specific task is to help with their search engine rankings, which leads directly into a lot of functionality/content issues.
Their CMS is pretty good in terms of 508 compliance and search engine features, (www.siteexecutive.com) however, as you mentioned in your note, the practice of having many many administrators has become a bit of an issue in terms of having consistant, helpful content. For instance, some of their departments didn't use keywords when they built their pages, and some people added information that would cause the pages to index incorrectly in the site's internal search engine, etc. And it sure seems like they loaded a lot of graphs and .pdf files. I am sure these are the things you're worried about too. I do think it is important to keep the bigger picture in mind, however. The big picture is: if you can get 700 pages of content up with a CMS in the same amount of time it currently takes your staff to create/upload 200 pages, then your university is better off -- even if there are minor mistakes to correct here and there. A CMS is built to help your staff keep consistent; they are not able to change or delete the graphic template of the site, and if they choose to add METAdata, it will be coded correctly... Human error happens no matter what system is in place. It's really hard to blame the CMS. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions. --Marci De Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] 410-268-0036 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
