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I used to ask this question back ~2015 - I was seeing companies with massive, clunky CMS installs just so their non-technical/less-technical staff could update
by t2r3121 20d ago
I used to ask this question back ~2015 - I was seeing companies with massive, clunky CMS installs just so their non-technical/less-technical staff could update their websites without filing tickets to IT/dev. It seemed to be more about those departments wanting autonomy and not having to wait weeks or months for internal IT/dev to make site updates. The consensus within one dev group was that the company would have been better served by hiring someone who knew HTML/CSS/Javascript to embed with the non-technical people and edit a straightforward frontend site for them.
- ecshafer 20d agoIn most web frameworks its not terribly hard to extern content (you probably do this already for translations) and just have a nice little yaml or json thats easily edited.
- t2r3121 20d agoThe less-technical staff I mentioned would have wanted visual design, not text files.
- esseph 20d agoThis also describes sharepoint
- ValentineC 20d ago> I was seeing companies with massive, clunky CMS installs just so their non-technical/less-technical staff could update their websites without filing tickets to IT/dev. It seemed to be more about those departments wanting autonomy and not having to wait weeks or months for internal IT/dev to make site updates. I remember Facebook's corporate news sites [1] were running on WordPress. I just checked. Some of them still are. Oh, the irony. [1] e.g. https://about.fb.com/news/ https://about.fb.com/news/