Content Management Systems

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Content Management Systems

• Allyson Falkner
• Spokane County ISD
• Afalkner_at_SpokaneCounty.org

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Overview

• General information about Content Management
  Systems
• Introduction to Frontier as a CMS solution
• Demonstration of Frontier

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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

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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

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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

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Frontier Demo
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Useful Links

• Frontiers home page http//frontier.userland.com/
• Manila home page http//manila.userland.com/
• The demo site http//spoco.manilasites.com/
• Create your own demo site http//oranges.manilasit
  es.com/

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Questions?