So as I sit here at work trying not to pull my eyes out, I wonder what the forefathers were thinking when they came up with the concept of content management systems or CMS for short.
So give you some background information, the most amazing thing about the internet/electronic information age is the ability to create instances of this information. A sort of instant carbon copy at the click of a mouse. The idea was people who create the content can keep it and anyone can make copies of the most recent version, instantaneously.
This is basis of the development of hyperlinking. With the creation of the WWW or the web, and website etc, this was extended further by writing and publishing your content and also the ability to “hyperlink” to other people content and vise versa.
Back to CMS’s. Its sounds logical enough, keep documents, forms, booklets etc., in the same place based on some sort of order. Then use the power of a CMS to gather this content and "build" a webpage pages to meet the needs of user. Kind of like a librarian storing book based on some logical order or how a grocery store organizes food, not necessarily humanly intuitive, but useful to the librarian, or the stock boy, or content manager. I believe the content in the CMS should be organized based on how it physically organized in an organization. (i.e. who is responsible for it).
So as I sit here trying to figure out why you would put bananas in the cereal aisle because some odd population of shoppers would likely find it there because they want to put bananas in their oatmeal is beyond me.
Anyways, Remember kids its electrons, you can jump anywhere in the store instantaneously, no need to move the bananas.
