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We have a tendency to want all the things.  This is true for our websites too.  We hear about all the cool features out there, and we treat them like Pokemon, we gotta catch 'em all.  But this is a bad idea.  Some features just naturally clash. As the saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat.  In webdesign, there are multiple ways to do similar things, and trying to implement two systems to handle the same…

Effective communication can be hard, especially if you're having trouble articulating precisely what it is you need, in an area that is outside of your field of expertise.  Technology, like many specialized fields, has its own jargon, as well as its own sets of rules that may not be immediately intuitive.  So when you start planing for that redesign, the pressure can feel immense.  Because of this, many organizations feel like they need to know exactly what they want before…

Last week, we talked about some of the reasons why CMS's can feel like such a headache.  This week, I'd like to start going in-depth about about each of the 5 reasons I listed, and what a better place to start than with the CMS provider themselves. First, I think an important distinction needs to be made between the CMS provider, and the "core" that they use.  Generally speaking, CMS providers don't build their CMS from the ground up, they…