  Steve GrothmannProject ManagerWith my teammate Lauren Walstrum, I manage new site projects, upgrades and support for a great group of clients. I enjoy prototyping new sites and focusing clients' needs down to the simplest possible realization on a site, since I firmly believe that a clear-headed user experience is fundamental to all higher level site functions.
Before joining Newfangled in May 2008 I taught composition at North Carolina State University, worked at the Town of Cary, NC's Cultural Arts Division and was a stay-at-home dad. I have been a semiprofessional musician for many years. I grew up in Tampa, FL (I miss a good Cuban sandwich) and graduated from Florida State University (BA) and NCSU (MA in English). I have an incredibly dynamic, artistic, creative, sensitive, smart family. Recent Work Ice Energy  Tracks & Trails Blog Posts| 2 |  |
August 25, 2011 at 4:00 pm In many cases content creation and then entry is a
bigger task for clients than anticipated. We've made these great plans
for a site, but then copy has to be written, images chosen, the CMS
learned and the content entered, formatted and in many cases related by
some method of secondary, suggested navigation.
The following list of tips and principles is somewhat specific to the
Newfangled CMS and our site build process, but potentially useful for
any CMS user at this critical stage in a website project.  | 3 |  |
June 23, 2011 at 9:00 am During prototyping some of the crucial decisions involve planning which
site content is freely available and which is considered premium
content, requiring some kind of lead form submission. Some content may
be further restricted, requiring a user account for access,
necessitating decisions about the administration of such accounts. This
post is meant to serve as a resource outlining the basic scenarios that
we most often encounter when prototyping sites.
May 19, 2011 at 9:00 am Using the prototype as a guide for content entry can help minimize
disconnects between prototypes and real pages, expectations and results.
Here are some familiar disconnects between prototypes and real pages that we should watch out for... 
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