A Successful Web Content Management System Implementation

Jay KnapeManager of Web ServicesColumbus State University

Successful WCMS Implementation

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 2007 51 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

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October 2008 77 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

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Changes made: Windows to Gentoo Linux IIS to Apache ASP to PHP MS SQL/Access to MySQL MS Frontpage to Dreamweaver

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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 Knapeknape_jay@colstate.edu

Manager of Web ServicesColumbus State University