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August 29, 2006

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Living in the Dark Ages

Every site we build for clients at work has a Web-based CMS built into it. This lets the clients edit their own pages. It's a win-win: They can make changes any time without waiting for us to get to it, and they stop calling us for minor changes.

My blog editing system is, shall we say, much more primitive. I have a plain ol' <textarea> element, into which I type raw HTML. The only programming I do on the text is converting a double line-break into a paragraph break. To get the layout I need, I add an opening paragraph tag before the text, then add a close-paragraph tag after it.

I could port the CMS we use at work pretty easily to work here, but that would require actual work on my part, and the busier I am at work the less time I spend on improvements here. I suppose that could be part of the 8.0 upgrade that I want to do, in addition to moving my static pages into the database, adding categories to the blog, and (yet another) redesign, but that's a lot of work for a very minimal payoff. You (and I) will be looking at this archaic site for quite a while.

This page's URL is http://jasonfleshman.net

This page last updated Mar 19, 2011 6:54:08 PM.