Advancements in technology open up new avenues of opportunity, allowing many to achieve what was once the preserve of a specialised few. But this should often come with a caveat: just because technology enables you to do something, doesn't mean you should. Before the modern Content Management System (CMS), publishing to the web was a technical endeavour. Many early websites were built with hand-crafted HTML, and while tools such as MS Frontpage and Dreamweaver, and database-driven platforms that included PHP and Classic ASP front ends later reduced the need to code every single page, you still required a significant degree of technical knowledge to publish. Then, CMS, and later Enterprise CMS, revolutionised everything. They truly opened up content creation, allowing anyone with basic IT skills to edit and add content to a website. And over the following years we saw the consequence: a proliferation of truly awful websites. In some cases, these were vast digital estates cont...
Local Government, Digital.