WL175: Understanding and Evaluating Web Content Management Systems

$800.00


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Duration: 2 Days

Get the information you need to choose and implement a CMS solution and learn best practices in a CMS implementation. In this course, you'll take an existing site and experience the steps needed to move that site into a CMS system. Finally, you will be given a hands-on tour of existing CMS products and be provided the opportunity to use several CMS products to see their benefits and limitations.

What You Will Learn

 

  • The language of content management
  • Evaluate the merits of various Content Management Systems (CMSs) based on your company's needs
  • Cost of installing and maintaining a CMS (Why free isn't always free and expensive can sometimes save money!)
  • Limitations of CMSs
  • Prototype a site around a CMS
  • Gear your site (and your staff!) to a CMS implementation
  • Best practices in CMS implementation
  • Six most common CMS pitfalls
  • Estimate the costs and ROI of a CMS implementation

Audience

 

Those who want to learn how to choose and implement a CMS solution.

Prerequistes

 

  • Comfortable using the Internet
  • Basic knowledge of Information Architecture is useful but not required

Course Outline

 

1. Introduction

  • Purpose of the class
  • What is a Content Management System?
  • A Brief History of the Web (and its devolution into chaos)

2. Common features of a Content Management System

  • Feature: Content Owners can publish content to the web
  • Feature: Content Publishing can be controlled through a workflow
  • Feature: Versioning and rollback
  • Feature: Timed deployment and expiration of content
  • Feature: Templating
  • Example: TeamSite Templating
  • The Document Capture Template (DCT)
  • The Document Content Record (DCR)
  • Separating design from content
  • Benefits of CSS
  • HTML + CSS
  • Example: CSS Zen Garden
  • Understanding XML

3. Understanding your needs for a content management system

  • Type of site
  • Portals
  • Article sites
  • Semi-static sites
  • Collaborative environments
  • Functionality
  • RSS 1.0
  • RSS 2.0
  • e-Commerce modules
  • Layout and maintenance
  • Summary
  • Cost (why free isn't always free and expensive can sometimes be cheap)
  • The high-end solutions
  • Open-sourced solution

4. 6 common pitfalls in selecting a CMS

  • Buy-in
  • Example: Human Resources Web Publishing
  • Architecture (planning)
  • Business Case
  • Understanding level of work
  • Training
  • Poor migration strategy

5. Building a business case for CMS

  • Reduction in IT costs
  • Repurposing of content
  • Decrease in delivery time of content
  • Increased control of content by content authors
  • Increased control of scope and growth of web development
  • Standardization of content look and feel
  • Reduction in training costs

6. Cost estimating

  • Exercise: ROI estimation

7. Best practices in CMS implementation

8. CMS Systems

  • Documentum
  • A tour of Documentum
  • TeamSite
  • A tour of TeamSite
  • Drupal
  • General features
  • User management
  • Content management
  • Blogging
  • Platform
  • Administration and analysis
  • Community features
  • Performance and scalability
  • Hands on with Drupal
  • Logging in to Drupal
  • Plone and Zope
  • Hands on with Plone
  • ICOYA
  • Postnuke
  • WebGUI

9. Macromedia Contribute

10. Resources:

  • Open Source CMS
  • CMS Matrix
  • CMS Info
  • CMS Watch

Exercises

Exercise 1: Feature requirements analysis

Exercise 2: Type of site

Exercise 3: Additional requirements

Course Labs