The world's leading corporations are putting the implementation of content management systems high on their list of priorities to meet the colossal growth in the demand for internet content anticipated over the next few years. This view is supported by industry analyst Forrester that estimates by 2003, 95 percent of the Global 2000 will have deployed a content management solution.
Current panorama. In the beginning, websites were created by a single person: the webmaster. The webmaster was simultaneously a web designer, a programmer and a content creator. This wasn't obviously an efficient solution as all the responsibility was committed to a single person.
Andrew Weston spends most of his life in cyberspace. As developer of SiteAnswer, a new software tool designed to revolutionise the world of content management, Andrew knows what makes a site good, bad or downright ugly. Here he sets out his seven deadly sins of the Internet, and how to avoid them.