Implementation outline
Content Management Systems are
generally deeply related to business workflow. Therefore, a good
implementation should follow the general business rules of your
organization. First steps of implementation is understanding how the
content is produced and reviewed, what sections of your organization
have the responsibility for it and how this responsibility is assumed.
A CMS implementation has generaly the following steps:
1. Defining the content and the content units
What constitutes your content? Articles, images, charts, maps, audio?
What are the relationshops between different content units?
2. Identifiying the content providers
Who will provide content for the site? Does it come from other
electronic media - databases, syndication of other sources, is it
produced by employes or both? For every piece of content that will go
on your site a content provider has to be identified.
3. Defining the content production.
How often a content provider has to come up with a new content unit?
Some content is periodical, some content is random, some content comes
as a response to the emergence of other content.
4. Building the information architecture
By using the knowledge gathered in the previous three stages, the
content is positioned in the future sitemap. The hierarchical structure
of the future site is now in place. Every content unit is placed in
correct relationships with other units.
5. Workflow design
Content providers are grouped according to the access levels. For every content provider procedures are designed ...etc.
6. Finalizing the website
Design of the navigation system, graphic design.
