Collage at Cass Business School
12th June IWMW - UKC Cass Business School Major UK Business School Requirements Marketing Programmes, research, students, involvement Internal Communications “Intranet”, Teaching & learning External communications Alumni, Press, Events Accessibility Multi-browser support
12th June IWMW - UKC Website History Version 1 Hand rolled, limited Version 2 Out-sourced - unmanageable Version 3 Early CMS - Control but loss of flexibility Version 4 Collage! - Control & Flexibility
12th June IWMW - UKC Resources Team of three Branding toolkit Some consultancy on implementation Systems support Lotus Domino for DB Apps But - no developer resources
12th June IWMW - UKC Process Technology Immersion Site Architecture Template and CSS Development Clean up old content Migration of content Tidying up Switch on - to new domain at same time
12th June IWMW - UKC Why CMS? Standards Control Support Brand Versioning Templates Self managing links The future
12th June IWMW - UKC Why (Commercial) - Collage? - Standards J2EE HTML 4.0 JavaScript CSS XML (The future?) Collage does not get in the way LDAP
12th June IWMW - UKC Why Collage? - Control One definitive version Not editing live site Fine grained security model Approval cycle Versioning Compliance - SENDA (Section 508)
12th June IWMW - UKC Why Collage? - Web team’s friend Remote support - WYSIWIS Collage paradigm easy to assimilate Self generating navigation elements Real time link management Integration with Dreamweaver (itself customisable) Audit log - who did what and when? Versioning & rollback Web interface, ftp, WebDAV Components - re-usable chunks
12th June IWMW - UKC Why Collage? - Brand In 2002 City ->Cass rebrand Need to implement brand right through site But need for flexibility & differentiation Intelligent Templates with asset metadata Style sheets & Image assets
12th June IWMW - UKC Why Collage? - Users friend Versioning - A huge reassurance for all users Staging server Content contribution - simple interface Scheduled deploy Easy to get support - WYSIWIS Link management Only simple formatting needed for attractive end product
12th June IWMW - UKC Why Collage? - Templates Nested templates Intelligence Majority of site implemented in one template Integration with asset metadata
12th June IWMW - UKC Why Collage? - Self managing links Drag and drop assets and links are remembered Components - self describing information
12th June IWMW - UKC Why Collage? - The future Integration with Lotus Domino through J2EE Extensible Store information as XML Put it in front of Oracle 9i Run it on Linux Multiple Collage Servers/Database Servers Office -> PDF Conversion (GhostScript)
12th June IWMW - UKC