Contensis Blogs
A place where the key Contensis CMS staff and the content management community can provide some insight into working with Contensis.
- Blog:
- Jon Lewis
- Posted:
- Thursday 13th December 2012
- Description
- In this post I highlight some misgivings I have about the way the term Open Source is used and how it can carry undue weight with some decision makers.
- Blog:
- Jon Lewis
- Posted:
- Tuesday 27th November 2012
- Description
- A summary of a key theme from the Online Information conference 2012. Looking at how business are fundamentally shifting in structure (and culture) with Social Networking at the heart of the change.
- Blog:
- mark owen
- Posted:
- Tuesday 27th November 2012
- Description
- A summary of a session on "Bring Your Own Device" I attended at the Online Information conference 2012. Looking at employees bringing their own devices to work such as smart phones and tablets.
- Blog:
- Jon Lewis
- Posted:
- Tuesday 27th November 2012
- Description
- This is a review of the keynote given by Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing fame) at Online Information 2012. He focused on Copyright and Digital Rights Management (DRM).
- Blog:
- mark owen
- Posted:
- Tuesday 27th November 2012
- Description
- Culture and assumptions, my summary of a talk given by Fran Alexander at the Online Information conference 2012.
- Blog:
- ben-tulloch
- Posted:
- Wednesday 17th October 2012
- Description
- A background on responsive design and how it compares to dedicated mobile sites in Contensis
- Blog:
- Jon Lewis
- Posted:
- Monday 17th September 2012
- Description
- An enjoyable summer getting to know our council clients even better and working on our latest offering to give new Local Government clients a kick-start on their projects.
- Blog:
- mark owen
- Posted:
- Tuesday 19th June 2012
- Description
- Brainstorming is a much-touted business tactic, but one that often just consists of people sitting in a room, chatting through a problem and not actually coming up with anything useful or actionable.
- Blog:
- alex-dixon
- Posted:
- Friday 30th March 2012
- Description
- A few days ago I held an internal talk on some basic SEO methods for our content editors. I explained while intense SEO can involve complex site restructuring with a firm (or consultant) that specialises in this area, there are a few simple steps editors can take to increase their organic search engine ranking.
- Blog:
- Richard Chivers
- Posted:
- Tuesday 14th February 2012
- Description
- My thoughts on mobile, having digested information form our customer base, and where it is going in 2012.
- Blog:
- Daniel Badham
- Posted:
- Thursday 17th November 2011
- Description
- Over the last couple of weeks we've been involved in putting a new face to the Pearson Schools and FE Colleges website. A great looking site in the first place - but now even more so - our team were required to put together the new HTML and CSS for the new look.
- Blog:
- Jon Lewis
- Posted:
- Wednesday 14th September 2011
- Description
- Shy features, quality and future developments. I had a really enjoyable (and useful) time with the Contensis users at SCC, this is what I learnt.
- Blog:
- Simon Horan
- Posted:
- Tuesday 10th May 2011
- Description
- Solving ASP.NET's periodical mishandling of user agents. In this post I'll cover why this happens and how to fix it.
- Blog:
- Richard Chivers
- Posted:
- Wednesday 29th September 2010
- Description
- Sharing my experience, insight and thoughts on what you should do to prepare for a successful go-live of a new website.
- Blog:
- Daniel Badham
- Posted:
- Friday 27th August 2010
- Description
- The Contensis front-end editing system is now in middle stages of development, it will provide tools for directly creating and updating website content and will be especially useful for those wishing to give community users editing powers.
- Blog:
- Richard Chivers
- Posted:
- Wednesday 21st July 2010
- Description
- An overview of the events at the University usergroup hosted by the London School of Economics, and a little about the new features planned for R7.
- Blog:
- Scott Yearsley
- Posted:
- Thursday 15th July 2010
- Description
- What tools are out there for BDD style integration testing?
- Blog:
- Daniel Badham
- Posted:
- Friday 25th June 2010
- Description
- Every web project is unique - in size, in design, in complexity, and most importantly in customer and end-user expectation. Take a look at the main stumbling blocks of most web projects and see how a Contensis based solution can deliver better results.