The Hidden Costs of a CMS
The Five Hidden Costs Of Running A Content Management System (Via The Big Contrarian)
I wish someone at work had read this before we implemented Zope/Plone. Sure, it’s nice to be able to train stakeholders in one system and have them maintain content on multiple sites, but the cost in systems support alone has outweighed anything we may have gained. I think we’re seeing a resurgence in statically oriented content management systems, aka “Site Compilers,” e.g. WhisperCMS, Webby, Nanoc, and RubyFrontier … the latter three via Daring Fireball.