Using Blog Sites for Web Content Management
One of the best things about blogs is that you can use them (usually for free) in any way that you can think of. I find them to be especially handy ways of maintaining a website, especially useful for people with little or no web programming knowledge.
You can easily create separate pages, add images, include audio & video, and otherwise manage your web content without using apps like Dreamweaver, good (bad) old FrontPage, or similar HTML editors.
Here are a few examples from colleges and universities:
- Barry’s Online Learner Satisfaction is sort of half blog, half content management.
- Barry’s Free Web-based Tools is definitely a web content receptacle.
- Portions of the LSC Academic Database (program info) is blog-based. (Example of non-blog page)
- LSC also uses a blog as part of the Technology Master Planning process
- Community & Technical Colleges Fine Arts Conference website
- The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC-Berkeley.
Here are a few non-education examples:
- 2008 Asian American Film Festival in San Francisco
- ParticleTree is a blog-drive web site about building web applications (I think)
- Tennis player Andy Roddick uses WordPress for web content mgt.
- Crowd Favorite by King Design is built on the WordPress MU.
- Zlok dot net is about log design, identity, and online strategy
A few blog posts about using blog software for web content management:
- WordPress as a Content Management System, by Library Web Chic
- WordPress open source as CMS, by User:lastnode
- Graphic Design blog has lots of info about using WordPress as CMS
- From Newark1, Use Blogger or Movable Type for Content Management
