Content Management and the Separation of Presentation and Content

Dave Clark University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Abstract

The importance of separating presentation from content is taken as a given in many kinds of publishing, despite the fact that the notion of separation has received little critical scrutiny. I provide a closer look at the separation, first by providing contemporary and historical context, then by laying out key distinctions in the ways the separation argument is used in Web design versus Web content management versus full-featured content management systems (CMSs). I suggest that these distinctions are critical in how we should view the separation and the implications of the separation for the work of technical communicators.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2007-12-27
DOI
10.1080/10572250701588624
Open Access
Closed

Citation Context

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  1. Computers and Composition
  2. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  3. Technical Communication Quarterly
  4. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  5. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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  1. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  2. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  3. Technical Communication Quarterly
  4. Computers and Composition
  5. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  6. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  7. Computers and Composition
  8. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  9. Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Cites in this index (3)

  1. Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  3. Written Communication
Also cites 3 works outside this index ↓
  1. Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences.
  2. Clark, D. 2002. Rhetoric of present single-sourcing methodologies. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Internation…
  3. 10.1080/00335638409383686
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