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Client Side CMS
The technology is clearly ahead of its time. But a new client side CMS named firerift has my attention.
At first glance, Fire Rift is impressive. The CMS has set out to make life easier for developers by only managing your content via the CMS. No more hacking of your html and css to fit the limitations of your CMS’s templating system (often archaic and completely different across various other CMS’s.) With Fire Rift, you cut and code your psd and let Fire Rift take care of the content via css class names or javascript.
Photos of the interface after the break
Optimizing Destination Kohler
With marketing budgets tightening and full-scale site redesigns becoming somewhat less frequent, we are seeing a growing number of clients that wish to make changes opting for optimization. Whether the site was originally developed by The Royal Order or not, we are being tasked with modifying the experience based on changing business requirements, user feedback or performance metrics. Such was the case with Destination Kohler.
User feedback collected from online site surveys indicated several flaws in the home page architecture of both Destination Kohler (Wisconsin and St Andrews) sites that made it difficult to access specific content. Featured content tiles were not self-evident and in many cases redundant with global navigation. Secondary and footer navigation needed to be reorganized, and the page needed to be optimized for search engines and tagged with Omniture code.