A content
management system has...
- Interactive use by a number of contributors
- Distributed roles - author, gatekeeper, administrator
- Templates
- Workflow - approval queue
- Subscription capability
- Revision replication
...which is what DRUPAL offers!
CREATION ROCESS -- Planning your new site...
- Define goals for a new site
- Identify your audience
- Plan the structure - levels i.e., homepage to secondary, tertiary pages
- Focus on content, not on design
- Gather your content and digital assets
- What content will be pumped from elsewhere, i.e., calendar, OAP
- Choose a template
- Request a development site
- Going live
TRAINING
- Author, gatekeeper, administrator
- What distinctions are there regarding training
- EESC training
- WebComm training
SUPPORT AND ROBLEM SOLVING
- Need for support: distinction of administered site structure versus
- author page creation or modification
- Support from EESC, Webmaster, Web Communications, Central Web
- Services, Drupal list-serv, informal networking
SITE MAINTENANCE
- Plan and commit to keeping content dynamic, interesting, up-to-date
- Market testing
