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What can CMS do for me?
And really what does the CMS do?
What can CMS do for me?
And really what does the CMS do?
These two questions are the foundation of these sessions. Let’s address the second question first.
What can CMS do for me?
What does the CMS do?
The CMS (Content Management System) does exactly what it says it does:
What does the CMS do?
The CMS (Content Management System) does exactly what it says it does:
• it manages content.
What does the CMS do?
The CMS (Content Management System) does exactly what it says it does:
• it manages content.
• It also easily adds functionality WITHOUT requiring you to learn complex code.
What does the CMS do?
• Announcements• Article Manager• Block Maker• Calendar• Comments• Elections• FAQ Module• Link Manager• Mailing Lists• Menu Manager• Notes (send messages
to groups or individuals)• Form Generator• Photo Albums• Bulletin Board• Contacts
• Provisioning (Helpdesk like module)• RSS News Feeds• Podcaster• Poll Manager• Scheduler (calendar/scheduling)• Scholarships• Staff Listing (slightly different than the
contacts module)• Uplink Module• Wiki
All in all… pretty cool.
Organizing My Content
•Fatcat
Organizing My Content
•Fatcat •categorize content
Organizing My Content
•Fatcat •categorize content
•Advantages
Organizing My Content
•Fatcat •categorize content
•Advantages •a category actually has an address.
Organizing My Content
•Fatcat •categorize content
•Advantages •a category actually has an address.
• that address will display everything associated with that category within a particular module. And Web Services can provide additional templates for how a category displays content.
•Example 1
•Example 2
Easily Create Content
• No editor required.
Easily Create Content
• No editor required.• LDAP username and
password
Easily Create Content
• No editor required.• LDAP username and
password• Create/edit anywhere:
Home, Office, Internet Café.
Bottom Line
• Your content is the most important thing. Delivering that content to your audience in a manner that is easy to organize, requires no programming knowledge, and can be edited/created anywhere just makes a lot of sense.
• If you would like a CMS site, go to this address: http://www.actx.edu/web/ and click on the CMS signup link.
