A Successful Web Content Management System Implementation Jay Knape Manager of Web Services Columbus State University
Successful WCMS Implementation
Success In the first 14 months, the Web Team has implemented 62 (50%) of CSU sites into OmniUpdate OU Campus. All done by: 3 full time staff Up to 4 student assistants
Successful WCMS Implementation Redesign of Web Pages ____________________________ CMS Implementation
Successful WCMS Implementation Why Split? Best Practice Dos and Don’ts of implementing a WCMS Focus on task at hand Learning curve for WCMS
Successful WCMS Implementation Where we started September 2006 Finalized 6 layouts
Successful WCMS Implementation Implemented new look with existing tools December 2006 – RFP for WCMS May 2007 – Reward RFP to OmniUpdate
Successful WCMS Implementation August 2007 – Installed and Configured OmniUpdate As of October sites were in the new look 38% of sites selected to move into OmniUpdate 134 total site within colstate.edu domain 28% sites would not moved into WCMS
Successful WCMS Implementation Process Student Assistants Worked on sites already in new look Staff Continued working with departments doing complete redesign Sites Only active pages HTML 4.0 W3C standard 508 accessibility guidelines CSS styling
Successful WCMS Implementation October sites in WCMS 15 sites in development 62 sites live 44,630 files 3,173 directories 145 Users trained Trainer – Jay Knape 1.5 hour training class Required class
Successful WCMS Implementation Changes made: Windows to Gentoo Linux IIS to Apache ASP to PHP MS SQL/Access to MySQL MS Frontpage to Dreamweaver
Successful WCMS Implementation Encounters Redesign Everyone wants to be on the University home page Welcome attitude for the layouts “Do I have to look like everyone else” attitude
Successful WCMS Implementation Encounters WCMS ASP on Apache Quirks with OmniUpdate Getting the templates set-up correctly
A Successful Web Content Management System Implementation Jay Knape Manager of Web Services Columbus State University