WEB DEVELOPMENT AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSSESSION 01

WHAT WE HOPE TO COVER

The evolution of the internet and new media Video: The internet at work Content Management Systems

• What is a CMS Why we use CMS• Discussion of Content management platforms

THE WORLD WIDE WEB

The World Wide Web— The Web—is a network of computers able to exchange text, graphics, and multimedia information via the Internet.The Internet- Is a global interconnection of computers

ABOUT THE INTERNET The Internet has revolutionized computers

and communications like nothing before Has world-wide broadcasting capability A mechanism for information dissemination A medium for collaboration and interaction

without regard for geographic location

HISTORY The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was

brought online in 1969 under a contract led by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah)

HISTORY J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global

network of computers in 1962 Moved over to the Defense Advanced

Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it

HISTORY The Internet was designed in part to provide

a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack

The early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians

WORLD WIDE WEB Tim Berners-Lee and others at the European

Laboratory for Particle Physics, more popularly known as CERN, proposed a new protocol for information distribution in 1991 based on hypertext

Hypertext is a system of embedding links in text to link to other text

NOW E-mail and web are now multimedia-rich The Net has become an entertainment center Social Networks and Mobile are major

aspects of the internet

WHAT IS CMS CMS – Content Management System, is a

powerful and painless way to manage all of your E-commerce, content management and business process needs. A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site. In short you can say CMS is the web application used to manage information from the website without knowing any technical information about markup languages or web technologies.

WHY USE CMS

• User-friendly browser based publishing tools- No technical skills required

• Compliance with Accessibility requirements- Disability Legislation/W3C standards

e.g. Visitors with a visual impairment• Project will facilitate intranet publishing

- Different Audience groupings (Staff/Student/Postgraduate)

- Channels in Connect• Delegated Publishing Model

- remove publishing bottlenecks

WHY CMS

• Compliance with Official Languages Act- Bilingual Content- Multilingual Content

• Content Reuse– Core information syndicated to multiple locations– “Publish Once and Use Anywhere”

• LDAP Integration• Improved Search Functionality• Audit Trails and content version control

CMS PLATFORMSWordPress

Word-press without any doubt is the best blogging platform and has healthy developer ecosystem with countless plug-ins which help you incorporate your efforts on your word-press based site. This popular CMS helps you create beautiful websites and blogs. It is free of cost so you can use freely as per your will and website requirements.

JOOMLAJoomla is a dynamic portal engine and a content management system. This award winning CMS enables you to create powerful websites and online applications. This easy to use and extensible CMS is written on PHP which enables user to easily publish their contents on World Wide Web. It is also freely available to anyone and there are many themes and extension from which you can choose.

CMS MANAGERResponsibilities• Oversee migration to the CMS Environment• Main site contact for IT Services and others.• Ensure good quality content with authority to demand

standards from contributors and reject where appropriate

• Monitor and maintain content/manage delegation to others

• Serve as moderator QA sign-off for workflow• Take ownership for site navigation and site main top -

level pages• Monitor web site statistics to direct site

improvements.