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    there is only one correct way to do it imo. through "tagged feeds".
    this allows for easily customized navigation, but also separation of content when needed.

    Think of a blog system, but with every entry having the option of images, videos, documents, text, etc. but also with a tag field which would hold however many you want to set as the max. with that tag field the user sets the nav options, so say you tag it... "Project Type, Project Year, Project Month, Project Client, Project Agency, Project Assistant" any of those words could now be used as nav options by using it as a url...

    www.yourdomain.com/project_year and you would see everything from that year
    www.yourdomain.com/project_clien…... and you would see all the work done for that client.

    this system would work well in the fact you have much more "links" than you need. allowing direct links of content a specific agency you worked on, or if it were non profit, or if your friend Justin Gum was involved on the project. ;) to prevent a huge tag cloud becoming your nav, you would have the cloud inside the admin and an ajax app that allowed the user to drop from the cloud into the nav field to build what will be available for site visitors through the offered nav on the public side.

    as far as thumbnails, etc just output the raw info. with systems such as cachecrop by stolen.la, developers can edit images on the fly by editing the url with some extended code
    http://cachecrop.stolen.la/demo
    the image sizing is now done for everyone if you add these options to the admin side of the cms

    It would be in the providers best interest to allow as much css control as possible. to allow people to make things look bad, also allows them to make things look beautiful as well, that's why the others are boring or monotonous, because they chose "safe"

    that being said, allow a 'front page' with image size, text limits, contributor, date, title, subtitle, all of which would link to an "article page". make sure feeds can kick out to flickr, facebook, rss, xml, etc

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    • you've described wordpress essentiallyacescence
    • wordpress is a clusterfuck and no i didn't adding pages is not done in this fashionversion3
    • front end is not database schema.acescence
    • if you know php, making it work as you describe is trivialacescence
    • I see what you're saying and yeah, nice approach.dajaniel
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