[Sigia-l] RE: Converting static pages in a large intranet site to CMS

[Marianne Sweeny]

Hi Stewart and list,

While Microsoft's UK site may not be on MSCMS, the MSCMS product site
http://www.microsoft.com/cmserver/ is powered by MSCMS as is the newly
redesigned TechNet at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/ which contains a
document set of approximately 50,000 pages.


Message: 14
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:07:15 +0000
To: "Conal Tuohy" <Conal.Tuohy at vuw.ac.nz>, <sigia-l at asis.org>
From: Stew Dean <stew at stewdean.com>
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Converting static pages in a large intranet site
  to CMS

Solutions are always a matter of taste but from my view...

Sounds like a job for Dreamweaver. Using it you can easily remove all
font 
tags and, depending how variable the HTML is, insert tags to allow the 
whole site to be templated. Templates are a useful feature of
Dreamweaver. 
I won't pretend that Dreamweaver can replace a well created CMS but it
can 
be a great tool in the preparation of template for a CMS. Having said
that 
with the correct work flow a Dreamweaver/Contribute based set up can
work 
better than products like Interwoven teamsite and has support for the 
common back end environments built in.  The correct workflow makes a
huge 
difference and can be scoped independent of any particular CMS.

I would also recommend not using Microsoft Content Management Server
(CMS) 
although I know how bad management decisions can rail road you into a
bad 
solution.  I have worked on aspects Microsoft's UK site and they do not
use 
their own product to manage their sites as far as I know.

Stewart Dean

Marianne Sweeny
Producer, Servers Web Team
425.705.8498