http://www.happy-content-manager.com Considerations about the daily tasks of a Content Manager. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:41:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While working on a new section for the website I’m in charge of, it occurred to me that this task could be compared to filing paper documents, and should be achieved in five steps. Gathering documents This first step is about gathering all information you want to publish in the new ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/set-up-a-new-section-for-your-website/ Wondering what to put on your 2008 resolutions list? Why not starting with adopting a misunderstood blog post? The following are posts I like although my readers don't seem to favor them so much: - Are folksonomies any good? - What are microformats? - Text editor: 10 points to check when choosing a ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/happy-new-year/ I wish you all a Merry Christmas. May celebrations leave you some free time, please make sure you have a look at my most read posts. They are guaranteed fat free, so forget moderation: - Is your hidden content worth seeing? - What is content quality? - Website housekeeping: 4 golden rules - Why ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/fat-free-content-management-posts/ Almost as kind as Santa Claus, I give you a list of my favourite CMS related websites and blogs: - Enter Content Here is Seth Gottlieb's blog about content management market and trends, with a strong flavour of open source. - CMS Report is the blog to read to follow CMS news ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/give-a-cms-for-christmas/ I have spent the last year and a half observing content management system users struggling with a not exactly cutting edge system. I found out their errors would always happen for the same 4 reasons. Though it may seem cruel to observe people as if they were just lab animals, ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/content-failure-top-4-reasons-of-errors-in-cms/ When I first started in my current position as a Web Administrator, I badly needed a refresher course about actual web design practices. I had spent 4 years managing web projects, away from any source code or Photoshop copy. I was just out of date. I have to say ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/web-design-in-a-nutshell-by-jennifer-niederst-robbins/ Instead of complaining about what you were just about to complain about, why not take a little quiz? Show the world how good you are at HTML and CSS coding: How many HTML elements can you name in 5 minutes? How many CSS properties can you name in 7 minutes? I've taken the ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/css-and-html-quiz/ Good news everyone: quality content is not only about content you can see, it is also about content hidden to human eyes. In a previous post, I emphasised on importance of hidden content. Today, I will explain in details what hidden content is and how it can be optimised to ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/is-your-hidden-content-worth-seeing/ Editing index.html, uploading face.jpg, amending style.css, deleting oldies.html... Sounds like a list of simple tasks every one familiar with computers could handle. But managing a website is more than that. It is about doing it well and fast, while keeping the web server a clean ecosystem to work in. ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/website-housekeeping-4-golden-rules/ Ruby on Rails (also known as 'Ror' or 'Rails') is a web application development framework based on the programming language Ruby. Rails was released in 2004 and is now widely used. Ruby on rails is reputed to be easy to use, output clean and elegant code, reduce time needed to ... http://www.happy-content-manager.com/should-you-go-for-ruby-on-rails/