Content Management Systems
In 1998, after studying and passing some basic exams for Netscape Internet Server and Microsoft Internet Information Servers, I joined an internet practice as a Programmer/Analyst and soon became the business analyst coordinating legal contracts with software companies for which we would implement and customise their products at clients we found. (Note later in 2003, this launched in to a brief role as pre-sales support writing up bids for software contracts. Pre-sales support was born in me. I was not experienced enough and/or lacked the professional confidence to really run with it at that point.) From 1999 - 2002, I manually managed the content updates (predominantly HTML, CSS) and site expansions (coordinating with Marketing for requirements & digital content, graphic artist for new images which I made web-happy, and PERL scripter) on 2 B2C and one B2B commercial websites. The company brought in Fatwire and with my maintenance input, designed a new site to enable m...