> Totally agree that users can have lots of difficulty when > presented with > Content > Wysiwyg pages that allow the user to "get the feel" of what > he is entering > or creating is the real requirement.
Is this an issue of human nature, or simply learned behavior? I agree that content should be content...devoid of any specific presentation initially. I also agree that many content authors have trouble grasping that. So, I guess is more of a theoretical type question: why is that? Is it that content authors aren't properly acquainted with the new concept of content autonomy? Is it a remnant of our past (ie, we are used to paper documents)? Is it only natural behavior to want to build a 'page' vs. content? I've worked at newspapers before and that was the closest I had come to 'raw content' and it didn't seem to be overly difficult for anyone to understand. Writers wrote simple text devoid of presentation. Copysetters did the presentation and layout. In an office environment, it's different, of course, but I'd like to throw out the argument that having authors fully understand the concept of seperating their content completely from any presentational structure is a critical concept to grasp for the content management system/process to work properly. Thoughts? -Darrel -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
