1. Content Management Systems Allyson Falkner Spokane County ISD Afalkner@SpokaneCounty.org

2. Overview General information about Content Management Systems Introduction to Frontier as a CMS solution Demonstration of Frontier

3. What is a CMS? A tool to manage content Content: Documents, images, web pages, code, etc… Manage: Set access levels, assign permissions, store and retrieve, presentation, etc… Purpose: Sharing of resources, accessibility to content, repurposing, consistency, etc…

4. General Features of Web CMS WYSIWYG editor User Groups/Roles Data Storage Workflow Templates Archiving/Version Control Repurposing of data Content and template rollback Scheduling Link Management

5. Features of Frontier Built in scripting language Search engine Static Rendering Browser based editing, design and site management Templates Permissions/Roles Decentralized management and support for multiple, distributed authors Discussion groups Site membership Picture and document management (pictures and gems) E-mail bulletins Site Statistics Customizable

6. Frontier Demo

7. Useful Links Frontiers home page http://frontier.userland.com/ Manila home page http://manila.userland.com/ The demo site http://spoco.manilasites.com/ http://spoco.manilasites.com/ Create your own demo site http://oranges.manilasites.com/

8. Questions?