Maintaining and Evolving Successful Commercial Web Sites

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Tackling a Content Management Project

Previous chapters have looked at the need for content management, the key concepts and building blocks as well as details of content management systems, and how a site might typically evolve toward a CMS. But how do you actually tackle a whole content management project? What are the key stages and deliverables? This chapter looks at how you might tackle a full project to plan, implement, and integrate a CMS solution, concentrating on what you need to do at each stage and what the deliverables are.

Although there are different levels and complexity of content management systems available, we are assuming for the purposes of this chapter that a fairly large-scale, fully featured solution is being sought. ...