After carefully controlling your site design through cascading style sheets (CSS), wouldn't it be a shame to lose some of that power and flexibility when implementing a CMS? Sadly, many content management solutions don't make it particularly easy to integrate style sheets, either on behalf of designers or authors. Noted information architect Victor Lombardi has written a nice primer on how to manage style sheets within a CMS. In what he describes as a "presentation management subsystem" (with the unfortunate acronym, PMS), Lombardi lays out different approaches to both managing and applying styles within a structured Web CMS. It's a short, easy, and useful read -- and note some of the reader comments about the vagaries of WYSIWYG editors and maintaining styles...
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