What do you find most troubling/annoying about building web sites which require multiple systems?
For example, you develope a web site and your client requires:
- Knowledge managment system
- CRM
- CMS
- Newsletter
Personally, it's a toss up between:
1) Tying the authentication of each, so a single login is requireds
2) Branding each system to output something which resembles original site layout
Whats for you and how do you deal with?
System integration
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It would depend on the skill level of the client, as well as the size of the job (read: money). If they are not all that literate when it comes to computers, a single signon is very useful. However if it is going to be a significant amount of work to modify the apps and the client understands this and is capable of dealing with logging in multiple times, it can save quite a bit of time to just leave the logins separate, but use the same username/password across the board.
The output of the other tools would always be integrated into the site design. Sometimes to different degrees.
The backend admin area's? I say meh.. it's the backend, it doesn't get seen by the public, so a matching "template" is not really needed in my opinion.
The output of the other tools would always be integrated into the site design. Sometimes to different degrees.
The backend admin area's? I say meh.. it's the backend, it doesn't get seen by the public, so a matching "template" is not really needed in my opinion.
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Re: System integration
Clients that are not willing to pay for the integration, though they expect that it should be done as part of the development of that site.Hockey wrote:What do you find most troubling/annoying about building web sites which require multiple systems?