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Diana Mounter — Custom V CMS — don’t take sides

Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 11.45am.

Diana Mounter PortraitWhen I was intro­duced into the role of man­ag­ing web projects, I naively believed a Content Management System would solve all my prob­lems. Growing my lit­tle empire of con­tent authors I had lit­tle idea of what was to come– before I knew it I had cre­ated a monster.

I went search­ing for a white knight to slay this mon­ster and was tempted by the delights of cus­tom builds, agile devel­op­ment, and ruby on rails. And off I went fol­low­ing the trail of bread­crumbs into the for­est eat­ing them as I went, but then oh, how do I get back to my old friend CMS? Hmmm.

This ses­sion will help you know how to make the choice between the sweet delights of cus­tom builds and the faith­ful work­horse CMS. How to get them to play nice, grow grace­fully, and present together as a seam­less front-​​end user experience.

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