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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on May 14, 2007, 9:34 pm
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sebzzz@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a 20 years old student who just started a summer job to help a
> Webmaster in an organization recreate their site (the old site is ugly
> and cluttered).
>
> I have a background with HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and I'm in
> the process of learning XML technologies.
>
> Now, unfortunately, I noticed that the job wont make me use those
> skills of mine. The Webmaster there doesn't have a big technical
> background and the foundation of the site is supposed to be done by an
> other company. Our job will be to place the content of the old site in
> this new foundation (and there's a lot of content!)
>
> Now, the webmaster wants me to get the old site in a tree-like
> structure in word, including every link to every page. They want to do
> that to look at the tree at the end and decide what they keep and what
> they trow and in what order it's presented. My question is : Is there
> an easy way to create such a structure instead of copy/paste
> everything and loosing my time with this. A software or something?
>
> He also want me to copy all the text of those pages in some other
> documents to paste the information in the new site when it's
> available. I asked him why we don't just copy data from the old site
> to the new site and he told me the old deprecated tags stay with the
> code this way (like <font>, <center> ...). But they work with
> dreamweaver and I'm sure this software as the ability to paste
> information without any formating in the back. Correct me if I'm
> wrong.
>
> My second preoccupation, since they still are in planning mode, I
> wonder if I could make them consider an already built CMS like Drupal
> or Joomla!. They want a shopping system, a member area, dynamic
> content by the members and lots of those things that can be done with
> those CMSs.
>
> Now, if I can convince them, I could be doing what I like
> (implementing the CMS) and they would save money (no need for an extra
> firm to make their site). The organization's webmaster is scared that
> at the end of the summer he wont be able to maintain the site with
> such an option (since I wont be there anymore). So, the way they want
> to do their site is proceed with the external firm and find a
> pluggable solution for the shopping section of the site. I think it's
> a lot of work for nothing.
>
> Can anyone give me some advice on how to possibly convince them about
> the good of this solution?
>
I appreciate your pain. However, I can guarantee you a 20 yr old
college student hired for the summer will not be able to affect their
decisions. Their webmaster, no matter how good or bad he is, will speak
louder than anything you can say.
I know it's not fair. But that's the way the real world works.
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