Hey Peeps (and Erika in particular), just finally launched our organization's newest web site, based completely on WordPress. Like I had alluded to before, we've moved from a home-grown CF CMS to WordPress CMS in an attempt to streamline our processes and reusability. It took us a long time, but we've finally gotten all of the pieces put together, all of the widgets and plugins written, and other assorted hurdles hurdled. We launched the new http://libn.com today and I couldn't be more proud of the effort.
There are a lot of things that happen "behind the scenes" in the way of content management that you don't fully know when viewing the site, but the single biggest thing that we have accomplished is that the web editor has complete control to manage the content pieces on the home page and all pages on the site. This is huge in an industry where the publisher is used to having complete control over the layout and functionality of a paper. Before, we (IT) had to hand-code a lot of the things that sites wanted, taking way too much time and effort, which works completely against us as a fast-breaking news industry. Putting control in the hands of the end users is something that we have strived for for years, and I feel that we have finally gotten to the point where we can say that we're on the right track. Anyways, check it out if you are so inclined: http://libn.com. We have another 35-40 sites to get on this platform, can't wait to start punching them out now that we have a pre-defined conglomerate of widgets and plugins to facilitate the transformaton! Oh, and just so this post doesn't seem too anti-CF, we are still using it in portions of the sites where it makes sense. The subscription portal, for instance, is completely CF. And I know that we could have accomplished this same scenrio in CF, but WP made it much much easier. The supporting community really makes the TTL capability and flexibility worth the conversion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:278108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
