July 10, 2002
Baking versus frying CMS
Aaron discusses baking versus frying with content management and updates bake and fry CMS ideas. The idea is to bake content, which is using your content management system to produce static pages. The alternative is to fry from the CMS by providing truely dynamic content. There are a few reasons why one should choose the frying method:
- Frequent (hourly or semi-daily) updates of informaiton
- Multiple dependancies (information linking to and from many points)
- Unlimited resources
- Many variation of presentation of the data
- Providing user slicing and dicing of informaiton capabilities
- Many external content providers
This list does not capture everything, but also provides maleable guidelines. There are many advantages to baking (publishing static content pages) from a CMS:
- Speed of delivery
- Archievable version
- Ease of troubleshooting and maintenance
- Editable output pages
- Use templates to generate valid mark-up and perfect 508 compliant pages
- Using reusable content pieces that provide consistancy and accuracy of information on all presentation layers
- Keeping various application elements well maintained
Aaron provides good links for further discovery of your own.
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