Drew McLellan on Choosing a CMS

Drew McLellan at Edge of My Seat writes up eight features to consider to consider when choosing a CMS. This is packed with succinct explanations and good reasoning. At least half of these are simply features of good web design (“design” as in how it works, not how it looks, and “web” as in of data not 2.0).

The features are:

clean url design

data feeds

data stored in an open format

customisable and accessible administration interface

search

multi-site support

multi-language support

caching

recent and emerging technologies

can it output json easily?

Wait, that’s ten. Also, a feed-builder as part of #2. So maybe: “customisable data feeds.” Nirvana.

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