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

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Howard
> Sent: 15 May 2007 08:59
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> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] What do you call that place between 
> the databaseandthe live site?
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> 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.

If that analysis is correct, then I'd be interested to see how just
looking at it will make the problem go away. As I asked Lisa: how
exactly do you do you manage content in the design process when you have
a lot of (possibly even unknown) content to deal with in a situation
that by definition is changing? The traditional response is mainly to
ignore the issue and hope it sorts itself out. It usually does of
course, but at the cost of lots of time, effort and compromise.

Jonathan


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