Keeping Your Content Classy

In User Generated Content in a Classy World Snook muses on the problems of keeping tight control over styling (and by extension, markup) without either embedding too much presentation into your stored content or having to write janky CSS that becomes hard to manage.

In an ideal world, a CMS would allow you to define and embed “objects” inside the content. An object has some complexity to it. For example, a pull quote might have a byline. A photo might have a caption and a credit. Or maybe it’s even more complex than that.

A little over a year...