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CASA Fairfax – Implementation of CMS

CASA Fairfax – Implementation of CMS. INFM 700 Project 3 (Aqua) Akashdeep Ray Arnaud Lawson Neha AR Vidisha Vedvyas. Outline. History of the Project. CASA Fairfax Website Requirements. Content Management System. Drupal . Implementation. Drawbacks. Conclusion. History of the Project.

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CASA Fairfax – Implementation of CMS

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  1. CASA Fairfax – Implementation of CMS INFM 700 Project 3 (Aqua) Akashdeep Ray Arnaud Lawson Neha AR VidishaVedvyas

  2. Outline • History of the Project. • CASA Fairfax Website Requirements. • Content Management System. • Drupal. • Implementation. • Drawbacks. • Conclusion.

  3. History of the Project • User and Business Research • Understanding of Client Objectives and Requirements. • Site User Research. • Map users perspective with the site architecture – Card Sorting • Redesign of the website. • Addition of Navigation tools. • A constant design look through out the website. • Re - organization of data.

  4. AScreenshot of the re designed website

  5. CASA FairFax Website Requirements • Community interaction • People can contribute towards the website. • A visible presence of community. • Increase in data mandates an improved search functionality. • Easy configuration of website – System Side • Content separation from website administration. • User and Security Management. • Simpler addition of Web 2.0 elements • Easy configuration • More control of data .

  6. Content Management System • A Content Management System (CMS) is a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. • Allows for large number of people to contribute data and share data. • Ease of storage and retrieval of data. • Improve communication between users. • Improved control of content.

  7. Drupal • Primarily a web content management system. It is fully open source with community support. • Used for both small personal blog sites as well as high traffic and profile sites such as ubuntu.com and whitehouse.gov • Provides the standard features of a CMS.

  8. Detailed Features • Registration and Maintenance of individual user accounts. • Can work on any web server that supports PHP ver. 4.3.x and database, MySQL and PostgreSQL. • Ease of Customization of page layouts. • Easy maintenance of the website – Site Reports, Logs

  9. Contd.. • Enables introduction of new features using a single button click. • The Theme system separates content from presentation allowing you to control the look and feel of the site. • Online Management and Administration System.

  10. Modular Characteristic of Drupal • Drupal is designed to allow new features and custom behavior into the core module of Drupal. • These modules are installed, enabled or uninstalled by the website administrator. • Access control features are one of the core modules, assigns user roles. • Multi user content creation and editing.

  11. Search Module • The search module lets users search for specific content on the site. • Can search for both users and particular words (based on permissions set). • The Search has advanced features to include – • Search for a combination of words. • One can also choose the content types on which the search should run.

  12. Taxonomy Module • This module helps in organization of data according to natural relationships. • It is created by vocabularies that contain related “Terms”. • The module helps in classification. • The taxonomy module helps to add tags to images or other documents that can be searched.

  13. Custom Breadcrumb Module • Breadcrumb visibility can be customized. • The breadcrumb supports taxonomy module, thereby even breadcrumbs can be used to search documents. • Trails can be made into documents

  14. Drawbacks • Drupal has a steep learning curve for web site administrators. • Drupal has backward compatibility issues.

  15. Conclusion • User role flexibility and richness • Users can contribute data : • Add event (based on the admin permissions) • Add articles • Search feature has been extended to include • Include user defined tags by using taxonomies. • Advance search : to search registered users.

  16. Conclusion • Web 2.0 functionality can be easily added as module  E.g. : Forums and blogs • Comment : Helps user comment on the activities and posts  based on the Admin permission. • Overall use of CMS makes the web site more interactive by getting more users.

  17. DEMO

  18. THANK YOU !!

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