xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
17th May 2001

How to choose a content management system?

“It is rare today to build a site without selecting software that allows you to update and manage it regularly. Content management has become a catch-all term to describe software systems that range from short scripts to allow you to add new news or press releases to a single page through to complete publishing environments supporting multiple editors, interlinked document sets and workflow processes.”

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17th May 2001

iLOR Search

“iLOR is not just a ’search engine.’ It is a ‘Research Engine!’ iLOR Search results have many more options than regular search sites! When you pause your cursor arrow over a search result using iLOR, an option menu appears that gives you exciting, useful and easier ways to explore the results that are relevant to your search and ignore the ones that are not.” (NYTimes article)

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17th May 2001

A Day-by-Day In the Life

“Some of the most popular blogs are maintained by professionals sharing their takes on particular industries. Journalist Jim Romenesko’s clearinghouse for media gossip (www.medianews.org) showed how a personal blog could go pro when the Poynter Institute hired him last year to blog full time. Digital designer Bill Keaggy, 30, maintains two Web logs that he started as internal resources for his employer, a St. Louis design firm. His commentary on visual thinking at www.xplane.com/xblog draws hundreds of visitors daily; others subscribe via e-mail.”

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17th May 2001

Hands-on XSL

“This article presents a simple, hands-on exercise that demonstrates the principles of the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). It takes about an hour to complete the concept exercises and about 15 minutes at a computer to try out the results with a real XSLT processor.”

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