Off to CMS Expo

Tomorrow and Friday I’m heading to CMS Expo to brush up my Drupal and general content management system skills.

I have years of experience writing web sites from scratch, and working with a team of developers on custom designed systems, but the content management system approach seems like the wave of the future for all but the smallest sites. It takes a little more thought and a little more work up front to configure it, to figure out which features to turn on, how to lay out a flexible structure for content that doesn’t yet exist and over which you have no control.

But in the end, the ability to hand the site over to the client and empower them to write new content, revise the site as their needs grow on their schedule makes the extra effort upfront worthwhile. And it’s nearly as easy for them to edit their own site as it is to order something online.

Attractive, well-designed sites powered by Drupal—that’s where I’m headed.