Web content

Content may be king, but how do you ensure your site has high-quality, accurate, on-message content? Articles in this section will give you valuable advise and insights on how to achieve this.

Managing content – go with the flow!

By paulhosking | Published: July 3, 2009
When managing many sites and many webmasters it is important to maintain control of your content. At the FCO we have over 250 websites and 300 webmasters. It is impossible to keep track of all these sites and webmasters ourselves but workflow allows us to control access to creating and publishing content. Wikipedia provides a good [...]
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Web Content Management Systems – Do I need one?

By paulhosking | Published: June 3, 2009
I have worked with web content management systems (WCMS) for a long time now. To me they are an essential tool for any large organisation wanting to manage lots of websites and content. I have always been surprised by the number of web professionals I have met who either don’t understand what a WCMS is [...]
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Migrating websites – top tips

By paulhosking | Published: May 13, 2009
As Transition manager for the FCOWeb project at the Foreign Office I was responsible for migrating and re-launching over 230 websites from our old CMS web platform to the new CMS platform. These websites were distributed globally and there were over 200 webmasters spread across the globe. This was a complicated, painful, and time consuming process [...]
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Improving your web content owners: good cop, bad cop

By liamking | Published: May 10, 2009
This post looks at ways to change your relationship with under-performing content owners and devolved editors to end the days of outdated, poor quality web content that does more harm than good. Shifting the balance of power back to the web team Web teams are commonly seen as little more than publishing teams, a role many web [...]
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CMS – how do you pick the right one?

By liamking | Published: May 4, 2009
I’ve recently been working on a project to procure a new CMS for a large organisation. Get all the help you can A really useful resource has been CMS Watch – these chaps love talking CMS. They’ve listed the 42 ‘most significant’ CMS vendors around today, from the big boys such as Interwoven to the Open Source options [...]
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They’re under starter’s orders… and they’re off

By liamking | Published: March 29, 2009
Hello. After months of threatening to launch our own blog, we’re finally up and running. We’re a bunch of web professionals [squad list coming soon] who know a thing or two about running websites. And we think it’s time to share some of our experiences and insights with a wider audience. “Another blog – just what the [...]
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