Website Update! New CMS and Tessitura Integration

Hi Hudson,

I’m afraid I don’t have anything on connecting a CMS and TNEW, but as far as general re-vamp advice goes, my biggest piece of advice would be…  get your frontline staff involved in usability testing early and often!  They are the ones who have been and will continue to field calls from your customers, and I’m sure they’d have a lot of useful input.  I’ve been through a number of re-vamps now, and the ones that worked the best always took comments from box office and front of house and really tried to work them into the overall plan.

Cheers,
Kathleen

From: Tessitura Web Forum [mailto:forums-tessitura-web@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Hudson Hornick
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 8:03 PM
To: Kathleen Smith
Subject: [Tessitura Web Forum] Website Update! New CMS and Tessitura Integration

Hi all,

We're finally getting around to do a website revamp and I wanted to ask the great invisible masses if anyone out there has had any experience doing a website overhaul that included connecting a CMS (most likely Wordpress) and TNEW.

We're really in the beginning stages of this, so any advice is helpful, specifically if you have heard of/know of any practitioners who are skilled in artful merging of the two.

We're also looking for potential vendors, pitfalls to be aware of, the best way to structure the design and build process, cool things others have done; really any you-think-is-useful information out there so we're better equipped to approach this. We're located in Santa Barbara on the West Coast, so local area recommendations are doubly useful, though I realize that's a long-shot.

Thanks in advance for taking the time!

-H

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Hi Hudson,

I’m afraid I don’t have anything on connecting a CMS and TNEW, but as far as general re-vamp advice goes, my biggest piece of advice would be…  get your frontline staff involved in usability testing early and often!  They are the ones who have been and will continue to field calls from your customers, and I’m sure they’d have a lot of useful input.  I’ve been through a number of re-vamps now, and the ones that worked the best always took comments from box office and front of house and really tried to work them into the overall plan.

Cheers,
Kathleen

From: Tessitura Web Forum [mailto:forums-tessitura-web@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Hudson Hornick
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 8:03 PM
To: Kathleen Smith
Subject: [Tessitura Web Forum] Website Update! New CMS and Tessitura Integration

Hi all,

We're finally getting around to do a website revamp and I wanted to ask the great invisible masses if anyone out there has had any experience doing a website overhaul that included connecting a CMS (most likely Wordpress) and TNEW.

We're really in the beginning stages of this, so any advice is helpful, specifically if you have heard of/know of any practitioners who are skilled in artful merging of the two.

We're also looking for potential vendors, pitfalls to be aware of, the best way to structure the design and build process, cool things others have done; really any you-think-is-useful information out there so we're better equipped to approach this. We're located in Santa Barbara on the West Coast, so local area recommendations are doubly useful, though I realize that's a long-shot.

Thanks in advance for taking the time!

-H

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