There might be some extra choices for the photo you want to use at the top of your home page, but CMS systems are not really designed to hang on to large quantities of component objects, just the bricks, lumber, cement, and nails you need right now (and sometimes you have to be sure the bricks are just the right size, and the right format). It holds the parts for a website that the designers and editors need at a specific moment in time. No directory book hanging on the outside of the first file cabinet where you can look up the location of every Uncle Henry picture.Ī CMS (content management system) is like a construction work site. That takes time.įinally there is no access to metadata (outside of filenames). If you need to watermark or resize an object, or change it from one file format to another, you have to open another program.
So your ability to control how people use things in DropBox is pretty limited. For individual objects you cannot even grant edit privileges. Permissions for folders are usually limited to just edit, or view/download. But what happens if you have 80 cabinets? And what if it is ambiguous if the photo of the CEO is in the “2017 Brand Photography” folder, or the “Team” folder, or the “Offices” folder? How long will it take you to find it? As an example, you could have a folder called “2017 Brand Photography” but good luck finding the photo in that folder showing your CEO with the leadership team in the corporate offices (unless that is the filename: more likely it is DSC12345.jpg…).Īlso, file cabinets are great if you have one or two, each with 4 drawers in it. Sure, you can search by filename, but if the file has a bunch of photos, you cannot search for the name of someone in one of the folders. Why do I need a DAM?” That’s a fairly common question, so let’s use old-school analogies to explain this problem.ĭropBox is like a really big file cabinet: you have a bunch of folders with hopefully clear names, arranged alphabetically, and when you need something in one of those folders, you better remember which folder it is in. “I have Dropbox or Box, or we keep files in our CMS.
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