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From Static to Dynamic:Choosing and Implementing a
CMSRuth Kneale, [email protected] Solar Observatory, Advanced Technology Solar Telescope
What’s a CMS anyway?
CMS = Content Management System Used to collaboratively and interactively
create, manage, control, and publish information
Known by many other terms PDM or EDMS, like DocuShare Web CMS, like Drupal Wiki
We need a web CMS
Why do we want one?
To avoid any more of the “single point syndrome”
To enable: Ease of administration Increased team collaboration Increased functionality Improved presentation for the web
site
Our Basic Starting Point
Open Source = $0 cost LAMP Setup
Must Haves
Audit trail Content approval WYSIWYG editor Granular privileges Friendly URLs Versioning Content reuse CGI support
Should Haves
Sandbox/staging area Online administration Inline administration Mass uploading Site map/index
Nice to Have
Contact management Drag-n-drop Photo gallery Events calendar Web statistics
To CMS or to Wiki?
That is the question Both are strong possibilities
How to determine? Experience of others (listservs, etc) Cmsmatrix.org and wikimatrix.org Opensourcecms.com Experts-Exchange.com Local evaluation
Initial Search Results WebCMS’s:
Lenya Drupal e107 eTouch ExpressionEngine Joomla! Plone WebGUI Xoops
Wiki’s: Giki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoniWiki PHPwiki PmWiki PukiWiki SnipSnap TWiki
The Weeding Begins
Exclusions based on: Too many missing functionalities Hidden fees Currency of support Required database underpinnings Reports of others on ease of installation Reports of others on ease of use Short evaluation on opensourcecms
The Final Four
Drupal TWiki
WebGUIMediaWiki
These were installed and tested locally.
Drupal: Adding Content
WebGUI: Adding Content
TWiki: Adding Content
MediaWiki: Adding Content
Local Testing
Small group of local users made up of staff who would also be final users of the product
Created, edited content Provided feedback
General Thoughts
Wanted familiar look-and-feel Wanted terminology changed Liked the CMSs
“More like Word” Disliked the wikis
“Too much work”
The Winner Is…
Next Steps
Expanding functionality Ingesting existing site Training staff on use Going live on new server by 2008
http://atst.nso.edu(after January 1st)
Thanks for Listening!
