Web Content Management
I mean: self-service web authoring, version control, team management, workflow, storage, integration, content reuse, publishing, syndication, maintenance, archiving, rollback.
The web content management market has specialised and fragmented to such a degree that ‘CMS’ is now more a set of components within (and usually specialised for) myriad web based systems, than a definable software application. Enterprise level CMS is still a defined market area, but it is shrinking with the realisation that one size does not fit all.
My and Paul Browning’s 2001 JISC paper is now a wiki: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/community/index/CMS:Introduction
CMSWatch and the open source CMS guide (OSCOM) together provide a very good, continually updated overview of the technology and market.
Systems I have used:
- Percussion Rhythmyx (now CMS System) – medium scale CMS
- Interwoven TeamSite – large scale CMS framework
- TYPO 3 – open source php CMS
- DRUPAL – excellent open source php Web 2.0 CM framework
- Joomla! – user and admin friendly open source php extensible website management system
Other systems I would recommend:
- Amaxus – Box UK, some clever people there.
- Sitecore – mainly because Mike Ellis recommends it.
- Vyre – heard good things about it but not tested it.
- WordPress (this site)
Other stuff I’m interested in
- Web databases – mySQL, SQL Server
- 3D reconstruction
- JSP, XML/XLST, PHP (some!)
- Topic Maps, RSS, RDF, microformats, semantic web - foaf profe
- Summary / Netratings / HitBox /Omniture / Google Analytics – web analytics / usage analysis
- SEO, SEM
