Musing's from teh M^onk^K . : . who knows what a programmer thinks? . : .

Well, as you may be able to tell, I have been, eating, drinking, and breathing Ektron lately. And I think I am beginning to see the light, by which I mean, how Ektron wants you to work within itself. It’s a pretty powerful system.

So far, most of the difficulties in customizing a Ektron is that a lot of the abstractions in a standard web application are already encapsulated by the system. For example, containers and controls such as images, content blocks, pages, forms, the CMS already has a pretty rich set of data attached to these.

So I recently started a new job at a decently sized software consultancy (excellent news and a great opportunity to be sure!) and my first project is at a large hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently are using Ektron CMS400.NET 7.x host the site in question. While I have heard of Ektron in the past, I have not had that much time to work with it up until this point.