Flexible vs. Locked down templates

Ottawa_IWOV

Hi All-

We come across a number of customers who would like CMS to be simple!

The major concerns are having content authors managing HTML within DCRs that is not sustainable and makes content updates a pain.

That ends of leading design down the path of very granular DCTs that become fixed to the site layout. This provides a lot of inflexibility when changes comes (and always does). A classic example is when a hyperlink needs to be added to a block of content that is just being managed as text (the list goes on).

I like implementing generic DCTs with open areas which allows creative teams/content editors to implement things on the fly; the web is a dynamic place these days and content editors expect to be able to change their content quickly to meet the needs of their clients.

I would be interested in obtaining the perspective of other folks on this one.

Thanks!

nipper

I hate the large WYSIWYG templates and avoid them at all costs. I tend to use a lot of Perl Modules to do common tasks (i.e. link module) and admin templates to manage data (say a select list, have that driven from another DCR rather than hard coded in the DCT).