Thoughts and Articles from Blend Interactive

At this stage, you have enough information to draw up requirements for what you need in a content management system (CMS).

Development  |  Discovery and Scoping  |  Optimizely  |  Umbraco

So, we need a new website? The easy question is, “Now what?” The harder question is, “How did we get here?” Gain buy-in on the reasons behind a new project, define the problem in a way that gains traction, and avoid some early red flags along the way.

Development

Content takes many shapes and connects in many ways. How these shapes and connections manifest – both in how they relate to the editorial and design model and in how they are converted into data that a content management system can manage – has considerable impact on every subsequent stage of the project.

Content and IA  |  Development

Blobs. Chunks. WYSIWYG vs. structured content. There are two ends to the spectrum, and we discuss how to land somewhere in the middle, providing a quality editing experience while still keeping the constructs of structured content front and center.

Content and IA  |  Development  |  Strategy