Re: CMS migration
"Austin, Darrel" <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:46:33 -0600
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> Our biggest challenge is (beside that we haven't decided on > the target CMS yet) having to export content stored as HTML, > tidy it up and convert it to XML. We did the human cut-and-paste method. Everyone had to be set up in the new CMS and then they had to manually migrate their content from the old site to the new. Using Xstandard as our inline editor, we were able to clean up most if not all of the old cruddy HTML. Of course, this only works if your authors only need to migrate dozens of pages (rather than hudreds or thousands). The one benefit for us, though, is that it forced everyone to finally look at their web content again and make the appropriate updates that they had been neglecting to do for some time. -Darrel