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Why are content management systems so “C.M. Messy?”

What if the real issue isn’t your content management system but how you’re using it? I’ve spent 19+ years of my career thinking about this question, as a technical trainer for CMS authors, and as a developer of CMS authoring interfaces. Attend this session to identify sources of “mess,” and along with some strategies you […]

The multi-vendor strategy for a comprehensive website redesign

Universities often face a decision of whether or not to hire a single large agency with broad but shallow knowledge of website redesign best practices versus hiring several specialized vendors with expert-level knowledge in one area. These two approaches often come with massively different outcomes, costs and time commitments. Furman University chose the multi-vendor strategy, […]

From zero to 100 without a crash — can you really move fast and break things when it’s time for a redesign?

Rolling out a new site and CMS is not as scary as it seems. In November 2019, Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) and Hannon Hill embarked on a multi-phased project that involved the implementation of newly designed web templates in Cascade CMS, followed by content migration, going live, and additional functional iterations. In this session, […]