Cre8tive Flow

Following my previous post, I’m finally in the process of moving eKstreme.com to a new host and a new CMS. The down side is a ton of manual work to transfer the page via copy/paste into the new CMS. This is making me read a lot of pages I forgot about. Stale content from years ago. The odd broken link here and there (thankfully, not many!).

The move is also making me reconsider the site’s structure, the databases it needs to run, all the intricate dependancies, etc. That’s a huge aspect of any website’s backend, and I’m happy with it as it stands now. The new CMS will enable a revamp of the core of the backend in the future if needed.

If you were to restart your main website(s) right now, what would you do differently? Hind sight is 20/20, as they say, so what glaring errors can you see? This question has been on my mind for a while, and a recent thread triggered this post.

For me, it’s probably the content management system (CMS). My oldest website started seven years ago, with the current CMS running for most of that time. Needless to say, it’s showing its age. Sure it’s been tweaked here and there, handling many re-designs, but the backend is not really that modern. It works, but it ain’t pretty.