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Over the years I have seen well over a hundred web content management system demos. I have even done a few myself. But it doesn’t take watching many demos before you notice that they all follow the...
View ArticleThere is no partial credit in digital marketing
You sweated over SEO but forgot to set your robots.txt to allow. Fail. Your content is brilliant but you can’t drive traffic to it. Fail. You bought all the right keywords but your content stinks....
View ArticleCMS Adoption. Think Vertical, Not Horizontal.
“Adoption.” For years that word has been on the top of the list of critical success criteria for any web content management initiative. “This project will fail if we don’t achieve sufficient adoption.”...
View ArticleChaining DNS Entries
Warning: geeky network admin post I see a clear trend of marketing groups taking over full responsibility for their organization’s digital presence. This includes maintaining various publishing systems...
View ArticleEvolutionary Software Development: A Model for Maintaining Web Sites and...
Since I got into software development back in 1995, I have been exposed to many different software development methodologies. I started out with a highly structured waterfall model (which is hard to...
View ArticleInternet Explorer, you did it again
I learned something new about IE9 today. Apparently, when visiting a site in the same domain as the computer, IE9 defaults to compatibility (quirks) mode. I am guessing that this is Microsoft trying to...
View ArticleRadio Silence
You might have noticed that I haven’t been posting here much over the last year. More likely, you haven’t noticed at all. Blogs are often like that. They come and go depending on the whims of the...
View ArticleIs WordPress the Microsoft Windows of Web Content Management?
We run our corporate marketing sites on WordPress. It’s not the perfect web content management system for us but, as long as we keep things simple, it does the job reasonably well. When we want to do...
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On Building an API
A few months ago we announced the availability of the Lionbridge onDemand Public API. While there are many translation APIs in the marketplace, I think that ours is the most comprehensive. Most...
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Too Dry Anti-Pattern
I do a lot of code reviews. On average, I probably spend an hour a day looking at diffs. I find this an efficient use of time because I frequently spot bugs that wouldn’t be revealed by regular...
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