Suweeeet! So, when ya going to ship all your widgets and plugins to me. :)
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Ray Champagne wrote: > 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:278115 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
