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Most of us are aware of the golden rule for plain writing on the Web: Keep It Short and Simple (KISS).
But there’s no getting around it—at some point you are likely to have a long piece of complex material that you have to put up on your website.
It might be a ‘terms and conditions’ page for a contractual agreement. A set of instructions for a new product. A detailed explanation of a business policy. Whatever it is, you want your customers to read it because it will improve your business.
You can’t force them to read it, but you can encourage them to read it. You can make it inviting. Enticing. Kissable. Here’s how.
For many open source CMS developers — be they PHP or Java coders — the recent release of Eclipse Galileo (news, site) is good news. The Galileo version of the popular open source IDE offers an improved user experience and promises to lead to more efficient code and more modern code. Can you afford to stay away?
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Latest Eclipse Release Makes Open Source CMS Life Easier
There are few organizations that haven’t considered — and implemented — SharePoint (news, site) in some manner. But as much as it has been implemented, it’s still a confusing and often frustrating platform to work with.
Delivering just the kind of help these confused folk need, CMS Watch offers their latest research on SharePoint. The SharePoint Report 2009 helps organizations better understand where and how this platform might best fit in their organization. Here’s what you can expect.
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Understanding SharePoint: It’s the Ecosystem, Dummy
How many times have you been on a website and wanted to find something, only to find that it didn’t have a search box, or worse yet, that its search was crap. Probably more than you’d like to admit.