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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.

Highlights

• The language of content management
• Evaluate the merits of various Content Management Systems (CMSs) based onyour company's needs
• Cost of installing and maintaining a CMS (Why free isn't always free andexpensive 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

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

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