[thelist] RE:News.com gets a facelift

Nick Koleszar koleszar at netcomuk.co.uk
Wed Jan 24 13:19:45 CST 2001


What a surprise. CNET foists Vignette on the world, then decides it's not
even good enough for them! Martin, any comments? Mr Greenspun, if you're
listening, care to comment?

nk

> Message: 23
> From: Madhu Menon <madhum at trisoft.net>
> To: "Evolt (E-mail)" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: RE: [thelist] RE: News.com gets a facelift
>
> > Do you know if they're still using Vingette as their CMS?(or was it
> > something else) Judging by the URL's it still looks that way..
>
> While they still *are* using Vignette for their CMS, they're not totally
> happy with it. They're building their own CMS using JSP from scratch. I
> don't have any idea of when they'll actually roll it out though. Possibly
> middle of this year. Vignette is a real pain apparently. Did you know that
> they use over 200 different templates for stories? And sites like





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