Chapter 8 Implementing Connected Content

Bring the models to life! Just as with the rest of the process, building a content-first and model-based system requires a different mindset for your team. No handoff to the engineer. No big reveal from the designer. You’re in this together, connected, just like your content.

From Theory to Reality

Theory is done now. You’ve created your content strategy and determined what content needs to be made. It’s time to get to work implementing a publishing system. Models are used to build the systems they were designed to represent. In this case, it’s an information technology system that enforces the rules you’ve set for the collection, organization, and storage of content.

It’s not enough to hand off the models ...

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