Thing 19

A Content Management System (CMS) sounds almost too perfect to be true, but if it’s a reality, then the library could totally benefit from it. It allows you to protect and add information to make whatever it is that you’re announcing more available to the public. For example, here in the library, we can use it for the web page; by updating what’s going on here faster, people would feel even more comfortable using the library because they’d know what, when, and where is happening by just a few clicks of the mouse.
The second article, the one about tips on how to choose your CMS, gives the reader some simple and easy steps to avoid finding yourself with a program that you don’t know how to work with. I especially like when they talk about “Mistake 5: Never, ever, ever allow an IT guy to choose your Content Management System. It is a rare breed that understands both code and a friendly user interface”.
After reading the article that talks about CMS applications for libraries I can see that my previous idea of using it for our web page is kind of ridiculous, if only because it looks like it can do so much more than that.
I found the articles very informative, explaining everything with easy-to-read English so the dumbest one of us can understand them. They were great.
I think that the new LInt is awesome, although after learning so many things I have it all mixed in my head. Now I have to take the time to separate all the layers and put them in their specific compartments. Hopefully I’ll be able to, and who knows? I might even try to create a website with it ;-)