A content management system (CMS) is a system for managing content through a workflow or subset of creating, editing, approval, publishing, and archival.
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What is the best way to order items on an admin page?
We have a Content Management System (near enough).
The picture below is the Administration page, which is a flex based front end, viewed in a browser.
Thanks to Roger-A on another Q, he gave me the ...
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Should User Experience Designers / Architects be responsible for the CMS requirements of a website rebuild?
The requirements for the CMS needed to power a new website are often treated as technical requirements, and are therefore considered the province of developers or solutions architects.
On the other ...
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What UX implications should I be aware of when designing an enterprise website/intranet on SharePoint
We are currently weighing up the for-and-against in relation to whether to use SharePoint or an arguably better suited ECMS.
I am looking to gather compelling evidence both for and against SharePoint ...
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How important is social sign-up to attracting new users?
Many website, including this one, are using social sign-up to speed up new user registrations. I'd like to know what are the adoption rates of this service, and whether there are any pitfalls to using ...
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How to represent a form on a CMS admin panel page that deals with creating/editing multilingual fields
I've had some experience with creating multilingual web sites and their admin panels. I am now in the search of the ultimate way to represent multilingual fields. I'm not trying to satisfy a ceratain ...
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CMS interfaces: forms based vs click and change?
In regard to CMS interfaces I would say we could split them in 2 main branches [*1]:
the ones with a control panel, where you go and usually see a list of pages (blog articles/ecommerce products), ...
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Have you used Markdown for large content editing?
I am putting together a system for writers/editors to efficiently add — fairly rich — content to a website.
I've previously used standard WYSIWYG editors but find that often what you see isn't what ...
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When I change the name of one page, should all child's of that page, have the url rewritten?
This question is actually three questions, but since they are all related to each other, they should stay in the same question.
First, should I allow a user to change the url of a already created ...
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Language switch redirect to homepage or content page
I'm using a CMS that supports multiple languages and the build-in SEO tools are decent.
The problem is that it doesn't support switching between languages while remaining on the same page, because ...
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How should I implement Language selection in a CMS?
One of my client must be able to post News to both french and english language on his website. I would like to know how I should design the CMS to be the most convenient for the admin as possible.
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CMS - Advice on how to link to site?
We have a Content Management System (near enough).
The picture below is the Administration page, which is a flex based front end, viewed in a browser.
If you think of admin pages with most CMS, ...
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CMS Article intro text list with read more link
I have a list of articles and on the front end I want to display the title, content and then a read more link. The content can be long, so I want to show only the first portion of content in the list, ...
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Treatment of disallowed HTML tags in forum posts
Suppose a user attempts to post a message to my forum, but their message contains HTML elements that I have chosen not to permit?
e.g. stackexchange and others disallow <table>; All forums (I ...
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What are best practices when designing a left-hand navigation element?
There are many CMS and other web application that sometimes require a left-hand navigation area which provide a way for the user to access additional resource in that specific area. This is not a ...
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CMS Pattern Book
I am working on redesigning a CMS and I am looking for some more possible patterns. Does anyone know some good books or websites where they discuss CMS UI Patterns?
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Language switch redirect to homepage or content page [duplicate]
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Language switch redirect to homepage or content page
I'm using a CMS that supports multiple languages and the build-in SEO tools are decent.
The problem is that it ...
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Not defined variables display
We have a pretty large CMS for fleets and sometimes people leave some optional input fields blank. Displaying that information on the screen doesn't help anyone, and from my point of view it looks ...
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Seeking suggestions for online exhibit platform [closed]
I am building a virtual exhibit, i.e. a web-based version of a museum exhibit.
I am looking for a platform (free or commercial) that can create a rich user experience in the browser, with a ...
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Content Management Systems (CMS) layers [closed]
I have been researching for the past few hours about the layers used in a Content Management System (CMS), however I haven't been able to come up with a clear answer due to little evidence.
I don't ...
