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Content management includes ways to make page creation and updating easier, plus tools for keeping your site in good health. See also HTML Validation and Agents and Robots for link checkers, roamers, and spiders.
WebReference Articles
- Theming Your CMS Without Tearing Your Hair Out
- This month Ernest Lilley looks back at his adventures in learning to create themes/skins for websites in the hopes of saving others some pain, if not work.
- Kicking the Tires on Your Next CMS
- Confused about which Content Management System (CMS) is right for you? Ernest Lilley helps you break Content Management Systems into distinct groups, based on how much time, money, and effort you can put into the project.
- CMS: A Look Back and The Way Ahead
- Web content has gone through many different phases since the first html document went online in 1990.
Learn how content management systems have evolved since their first appearance, what's hot now and where to find podcasts to get familiar with the lingo and get up to speed fast.
- Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery
- Successful content management begins with successful information organization; or the Information
Model. In our excerpt from chapter 4 of "Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery," author JoAnn
Hackos explains how to create an Information Model that is both effective and usable.
- Content Management Systems
- The case in favor of Content Management is argued in this excerpt from the glasshaus
title, "Content Management Systems." Included are discussions defining what CMS is, why it is needed, and
more importantly, why it can be so difficult to implement.
- Creating RSS files for your Web site
- RSS is a great way for any Web site to advertise their content in an always up-to-date fashion. Let WebRef's XML Expert lead you through using RSS with your site.
- Fill the Need for Speed with Content Delivery Services
- With Internet use growing as fast as it is, any slow-downs on your site can cost you customers. Is a Content Delivery Service the key to making your site faster and more reliable? Jon Zeeff of SolidSpeed Networks gives us an overview of CDS from an insider's perspective.
- The Joy of Dreamweaver MX
- Our excerpt from this Osborne/McGraw-Hill title covers Dreamweaver's ability to integrate
with both other Macromedia software and third party offerings; including
Fireworks MX, TopStyle Pro, and HomeSite+.
- Web Editing Anywhere
- Ken Boucher clues us in on some free new tools that allow you to edit and maintain your Web site from any browser in the world.
- Weblog Unleashed
- Weblog is a Web-based tool that allows you to manage multiple RSS channels. Weblog now features wireless support with WML and PALM feeds, plus a configurable installation script that automates the entire installation process, including Perl module installation. Get this script to easily run your own weblog.
Tools
- ColdFusion
- A development system for creating interactive sites and dynamic Web applications.
- Dreamweaver UltraDev
(*)
- A powerful web development tool. Does page and site design. Also allows
you to create useful interactive, database-driven Web business applications
without coding.
- Frontier
- Nice application with an object oriented framework for managing a site with
many authors.
- FrontPage
- A Web site development tool for Windows. Wizards help guide you in creating
your pages and you can view and edit your site heirarchically. The WYSIWYG
editor can edit your pages locally or remotely (with a Microsoft-enabled server).
Checks external links. From Microsoft.
- GoLive6
- Industrial-strength design, production, and management features so you can
create professional dynamic-database-driven Web sites. Tightly integrated
with other Adobe products, GoLive software protects your code from modification
and corruption while offering site layout and management functionality.
- LinkAlarm
- Service that helps site admins by regularly checking all the links on a
web site and emailing a summary about the link failures. A detailed Web based
report also provides statistics on problems with internal and external links.
- LinkScan
- A powerful tool that automates the process of checking for broken or dead
links and also generates a comprehensive SiteMap for your website.
- Net Mechanic
- Searches Web sites for broken links, spots bad HTML tags, and rates server's
response time. Up to a limit of 200 pages and 500 links.
- NetObjects Fusion (*)
- Offers web site development and application building software featuring
HTML, DHTML and JavaBeans for authoring and creating site oriented Internet
e-commerce, e-business and Intranet web sites.
- Red Alert
- Service which monitors your Internet servers and pages or emails you if
they are malfunctioning or inaccessible. Can monitor secure Web servers.
- Vignette
V7
- Features cookie support, page and page component caching, template-based
page and application programming and much more with a dynamic, database-driven
architecture.
- WebSite Director
- A full-featured content management system that is easy to install and use,
meshes smoothly with existing procedures and e-commerce systems, and is cost-effective.
Collections
- Content Management
- From Google.
- Site Management utilities
- From desktopPublishing
- Web site management directory
- From Online Planet(TM)
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