[Sigia-l] What do you call that place between the database andthe live site?

[Adrian Howard]

On 14 May 2007, at 11:08, Jonathan Baker-Bates wrote:
[snip]
> Could this be related to what you are describing? My reason for  
> thinking
> about this is to allow work on content (it's length, type, structure,
> style, etc.) to start far earlier in the information architecture
> process. Right now, we usually deal with such things after the IA has
> been designed and signed off - only to find the content doesn't  
> actually
> fit very well when the two are integrated into the CMS. And that's  
> just
> one of many content-related issues that might be alleviated by such an
> approach.
[snip]

Isn't that more an artefact of seeing the IA as a "phase" that can be  
complete and signed off before development. If you start looking at  
it as part of the ongoing process of development this problem  
disappears.

Cheers,

Adrian