Content Management

I’ve been doing web development for so long, I actually remember back when the first web content management systems hit the streets. They could cost big companies $100,000 and six months to implement. Microsoft has a CMS Server product that was (and probably still is) ridiculously expensive. One of my favorite companies from that era was Red Dot, which took a novel approach of interspersing red dots where you were able to administer content.

In recent years, I’ve implemented Typo, Mephisto, and Radiant for Rails (some argue that Ruby on Rails itself is a CMS). I’ve also implemented Wordpress (as have 95% of all web developers).

In the dark ages (2001) my programmers built custom CMS using Active Server Pages. Two of these monstrosities are actually still in use today for clients that I still support.

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• Rit is an anti-CMS content scheduling system for Rails —April 15, 2010 by emphaticsolutions.com
• Unobtrusive code highlighting in Nesta —March 21, 2010 by Ryan Walker
• Nesta CMS —March 13, 2010 by github.com
• Building a website with Nesta CMS —March 13, 2010 by Ryan Walker
• browsermedia's browsercms at master - GitHub —July 06, 2009 by github.com
• "Beast" not corporate enough? —March 12, 2008 by Ryan Walker
• Corporate Wiki —September 30, 2005 by Ryan Walker

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