The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of InformationAlan Liu

priate package. Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the Handbook is the all too brief discussion addressed to open-source CMS software. White rather unfairly dismisses open-source solutions as being ‘a set of software tools and not a finished product’— certainly not the case with Mambo, EZPublish, or Typo3, three of the most popular and powerful open-source content management systems available. Many of the other options discussed—in-house development and procurement of commercial packages—are really only suitable for corporate environments or extremely large-scale enterprise websites. There is however value in this book, if you are prepared to overlook the fact that it has very clearly been written with a particular audience in mind. White’s experience with CMS deployment is clearly significant and there are several useful insights here. Certainly, there are large sections which will not be relevant, but this book does raise many salient points which could help you to decide whether a CMS is necessarily appropriate, what your requirements are, and help guide you to successful planning and eventual deployment. The terminology employed may sometimes induce squirming— White definitely talks the talk—although in the final analysis The Content Management Handbook demonstrates that a big business mentality can at least prove thought provoking.