INFM 700 Project 3 (Aqua) - Akashdeep Ray - Arnaud Lawson - Neha AR - Vidisha Vedvyas

 History of the Project.  CASA Fairfax Website Requirements.  Content Management System.  Drupal.  Implementation.  Drawbacks.  Conclusion.

 User and Business Research ◦ Understanding of Client Objectives and Requirements. ◦ Site User Research. ◦ Map users perspective with the site architecture – Card Sorting  Redesign of the website. ◦ Addition of Navigation tools. ◦ A constant design look through out the website. ◦ Re - organization of data.

 Community interaction ◦ People can contribute towards the website. ◦ A visible presence of community.  Increase in data mandates an improved search functionality.  Easy configuration of website – System Side ◦ Content separation from website administration. ◦ User and Security Management.  Simpler addition of Web 2.0 elements ◦ Easy configuration ◦ More control of data.

 A Content Management System (CMS) is a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment.  Allows for large number of people to contribute data and share data.  Ease of storage and retrieval of data.  Improve communication between users.  Improved control of content.

 Primarily a web content management system. It is fully open source with community support.  Used for both small personal blog sites as well as high traffic and profile sites such as ubuntu.com and whitehouse.gov  Provides the standard features of a CMS.

 Registration and Maintenance of individual user accounts.  Can work on any web server that supports PHP ver. 4.3.x and database, MySQL and PostgreSQL.  Ease of Customization of page layouts.  Easy maintenance of the website – Site Reports, Logs

 Enables introduction of new features using a single button click.  The Theme system separates content from presentation allowing you to control the look and feel of the site.  Online Management and Administration System.

 Drupal is designed to allow new features and custom behavior into the core module of Drupal.  These modules are installed, enabled or uninstalled by the website administrator.  Access control features are one of the core modules, assigns user roles.  Multi user content creation and editing.

 The search module lets users search for specific content on the site.  Can search for both users and particular words (based on permissions set).  The Search has advanced features to include – ◦ Search for a combination of words. ◦ One can also choose the content types on which the search should run.

 This module helps in organization of data according to natural relationships.  It is created by vocabularies that contain related “Terms”.  The module helps in classification.  The taxonomy module helps to add tags to images or other documents that can be searched.

 Breadcrumb visibility can be customized.  The breadcrumb supports taxonomy module, thereby even breadcrumbs can be used to search documents.  Trails can be made into documents

 Drupal has a steep learning curve for web site administrators.  Drupal has backward compatibility issues.

 User role flexibility and richness  Users can contribute data : ◦ Add event (based on the admin permissions) ◦ Add articles  Search feature has been extended to include ◦ Include user defined tags by using taxonomies. ◦ Advance search : to search registered users.

 Web 2.0 functionality can be easily added as module E.g. : Forums and blogs  Comment : Helps user comment on the activities and posts based on the Admin permission.  Overall use of CMS makes the web site more interactive by getting more users.

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