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Behind The Washington Post's redesigned Web site
- nvictor 16y ago> I was deluged over the past 10 days with reader e-mails saying that The Post’s redesigned Web site, which debuted on March 13, "stinks." Some used less polite language. The mail ran about 8 to 1 negative. What an eloquent of putting it! I might steal it some day.
- Luyt 16y agoNo one ever got fired for buying Méthode. http://www.eidosmedia.com/EN/Page/Uuid/1d3be57a-af49-11de-9d72-8e8f18867204/Federated_architecture.xml http://www.eidosmedia.com/EN/Page/Uuid/1d3be57a-af49-11de-9d...
- sachinag 16y agoYeah, I wonder why Ellington didn't get more traction.
- mixmax 16y agoI just read the page you linked to, and can't help to wonder how the post can shell out upwards of $7 million for that. I'm sure the number includes training, integration etc. but it seems to med that a drupal system with some caching, and a few hackers to create newsroom specific modules would be able to do much the same for a fraction of the cost. Am I missing something obvious?
- OstiaAntica 16y agoTo be fair I imagine there's a pretty complex asset management layer, a ton of legacy code and content migration, and also it sounds like there's a paywall scheme for some content.
- brutimus 16y agoYou're missing the fact that online publishing is only a small part of what the system has to handle. It has to integrate with the print design tools and publishing systems.
- Luyt 16y agoIt's probably a ginourmous enterprisey system with undoubtely many Oracle databases.
- OstiaAntica 16y agoThey charge extra for the horrendous urls.
- mkr-hn 16y agoIt doesn't help that the redesign looks like a free WordPress theme.
- omnivore 16y agoCMS is now a "geek" acronym. Right.
- steverenz 16y agoI was expecting him to say "bleep bloop" at some point. Might have been better to have the CTO respond instead.
- ericmsimons 16y agoIs it just me or does that top bar look EXACTLY like Apple.com's top bar??