1. Tim Hanschke tjhanschke@doit.wisc.edu tjhanschke@doit.wisc.edu Steve Devoti devoti@wisc.edu devoti@wisc.edu Presenters What is a CMS? How do I interact with a CMS? Do I want a CMS? Which one do I want? What is campus doing with CMS? Presentation Outline

2. PortalModuleSkinDrupalJoomlaDotNetNukeSyndicationWeb 2.0LAMPPHPASPMySQLDynamic ContentHosted Site

3. Content Management System CMS CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. CMS Defined A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to Web sites. Web-based CMS Defined You don’t need Dreamweaver / FrontPage to build web content anymore Bottom Line

4. TRADITIONAL METHODCONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Repeat Check Modifications for Accuracy Upload Files Modify Files Download Files Connect Dreamweaver to web server using FTP or WebDAV Repeat Save Changes Preview Changes Modify the “module” Log in to site with Administrative credentials Open a web-browser

5. Common Department Website Needs Information about the program List of Faculty and Contact Information Place to hold information for prospective students and faculty www.opensourcecms.com Want to try it yourself?

6. Uses Team collaboration Project Management Informational Website Resource Management E-commerce Benefits No special Development Software Needed Content creation is VERY fast Full text search of site is built in Useful organization of content User-customized content Considerations Popularity… “Skinning” Custom Modules Why does my page…?

7. What platform do I want to support? Does it do what I want “out of the box”? How much effort does it take to add functionality? How well does it scale? How do I pick one? A few questions to clarify… Drupal (LAMP) Joomla (LAMP) Mambo (LAMP) DotNetNuke (Windows, IIS, SQL, ASP.Net) Moodle A few of the “popular” ones… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems An excellent resource

8. Operating System *LinuxUnixWindowsWeb Server*Apache Internet Information Services Database*MySQLPostgreSQLSQL ServerOracle Web-based Programming Language *PHP (Pre HyperText Processor) ASP (Active Server Pages) ASP.Net LAMP: Linux – Apache – MySQL – PHP

9.  Steve?