Content Management Systems - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about content management systems.
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Content Management Systems: Part 1 - Archive
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Resources about web site content management systems.
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Content Management Systems: Part 2 - Archive
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Resources about web site content management systems.
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Enterprise Content Management System Requirements
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The business requirements docment used for the Victorian Government's enterprise content management project.
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New Healthcare.gov is Open, CMS-Free
- by David Cole, Development Seed with contributions from Chris Bernstein, Digital Communications Division, ASPA/HHS. HHS.gov Digital Strategy Blog, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. "Recently HHS CTO Bryan Sivak outlined a new vision for healthcare.gov. The site will relaunch this June with a completely rethought design and architecture.
The new healthcare.gov follows a new CMS-free exit disclaimer icon philosophy. It will be a completely static website, generated by Jekyll exit disclaimer icon. This shift will allow HHS to move away from the use of a content management system for managing Heathcare.gov. .."
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A Beginner's Guide to WordPress
- By Skadeedle, Business 2 Community, April 24, 2013. "Not only is WordPress the most popular blogging tool around (powering over 60 million websites and blogs worldwide), it’s also incredibly easy to use. So if you’re looking to start a new blog, or use a new blogging platform for your business that makes publishing simple, WordPress is worth considering. In this quick guide, we help you decipher WordPress options and show you how to get started..."
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5 Basic Tips to Improve WordPress for SEO and the User Experience
- by Alex Moss, Search Engine Watch, April 19, 2013. "WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems available today. In September 2012, it was reported that WordPress powers 1 in 6 websites.
As someone who codes within WordPress on a daily basis, it's easy for me to sell WordPress to clients. They are assured that the CMS platform is future proof – at least for the foreseeable future.
However, downloading and installing WordPress isn't enough to make the site successful for SEO, security, and performance. But the following basic tips will improve your WordPress site for SEO and the user experience..."
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The future of SEO plugins for WordPress
- by Joost de Valk. Yoast, 8 April, 2013. "I find myself becoming more and more defensive of WordPress SEO plugins, my own in particular. When people make jokes about them I tend to get angry, which is perhaps a stupid reaction, but it made me think: why would people make jokes about them, are they that stupid? What does the future hold for those plugins and what do they really do?
So I went and installed and played with a ton of SEO plugins..."
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DCMS Wordpress-based intranet case study - cheaper, quicker, and user-centred
- by James Dellow. Chieftech's Blog, March 30, 2013. "Continuing what appears to be turning into a series on alternative intranets technologies, here is a great study from the UK about relaunching the Department for Culture, Media & Sport's intranet with Wordpress.
There are two main reasons for reading this case study:
- If you haven't looked seriously under the hood of Wordpress in recent years, you probably won't appreciate that it has evolved from a blogging tool into a sophisticated Web content management system.
- If you want to understand what is involved in creating a simple, effective intranet then this is a stand out case study..."
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Short List Of The Best WordPress Plugins
- By Greg Taylor, Business 2 Community, Published February 27, 2013. "... We always advise that if you can circumvent using a plugin by adding a couple of lines of code do so. If you are unskilled with PHP and the functions.php file scares you, then plugins are the best way for you to proceed.
The following is a list of WordPress plugins Marketing Press likes to use when developing sites for clients. (This list is not to be considered an end all be all list. This is just a list of what we use for clients and helps them to achieve their goals.)..."
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Building a government website FAST with aGov
- Posted by Chris Skene. PreviousNext, 14 February, 2013. "aGov is a Drupal distribution built to address the accessibility, security and design guidelines for Australian Government sites. In a previous blog, I talked about some of the benefits aGov has for public sector agencies trying to do more with less in the online environment. In this post, I'm going to show you are practical example of building a micro-site using aGov, to show you how easy, and quick, it is to get up and running.
We're going to be building a site for a government initiative, but you could easily use the same methodology for a smaller public sector agency, a special event, an informational site, or a minister..."
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Content Management Systems (CMS) Toolkit
- Sponsored by GSA's Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies, November 27, 2012. "Improving the federal government’s ability to deliver digital information anytime, anywhere, on any device—via open content—is a key goal of the Digital Government Strategy. A content management system (CMS) can help your agency move to an open content model, making it easier for people to find, share, use, and re-use your information.
GSA's Center for Digital Services Innovation has developed this CMS toolkit that provides the following resources for agencies:
Business Case for a CMS
Choosing a CMS
Preparing Your Content for a CMS
Migrating to a CMS
Agency Case Studies..."
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New To Using WordPress? 3 Must Have Plugins To Power Your SEO
- by John E Lincoln. Search Engine Land, November 29, 2012. "Some of you are likely already aware of these plugins, while others will be hearing about them for the first time. These plugins are specifically for WordPress websites. These are only 3 of thousands of plugins available for WordPress. But these 3 are considerably strong and I would recommend them for most WordPress sites.
Personally, I love working with WordPress. It is the most popular CMS (content management system) for good reason. Building a simple website is incredibly easy and adding new functionality is only a plugin or development project away. Although this is true, there are also good reasons why companies choose other systems like Drupal, Joombla, Magento, etc., as WordPress is limited in certain ways that can demand another CMS at times..."
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aGov - the open Drupal platform for Australian government websites
- Developed and backed by PreviousNext - aGov is a free open source Drupal 7 distribution developed specifically for Australian Government organisations. Easy to install and configure, this pre-packaged Drupal CMS platform complies with all Australian Government standards and provides a full suite of essential website management features.
aGov is not officially endorsed by the Australian Government.
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Your City's Virtual Home
- Keep your community in the loop and introduce visitors to everything your city has to offer. WordPress.com. The basic service is free, and they offer paid upgrades for advanced features such as domain hosting and extra storage. Their service is designed to give you as much control and ownership over what goes on your site as possible.
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Make WordPress.com Your City's Virtual Home
- by Christopher Finke, Wordpress.com, Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2012. "City administrators: Don't spend thousands of dollars on a proprietary system for your city’s website. We’ve launched WordPress.com/cities as the go-to place to start a site for your city or other municipal body, and there’s no charge to get started. (“Free” is a price that will get every taxpayer on board, and since WordPress.com has been approved as a hosting site for federal government agencies, you can be sure we take security seriously.)
To supplement the impressive stable of existing WordPress.com features like custom domains (e.g., YourCity.gov or CityNameHere.com), we’ve added a couple of new ones to help you build the best site you can for residents and visitors alike..."
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10 SEO Considerations for a Content Management System
- by Ray "Catfish" Comstock, Search Engine Watch, November 13, 2012. "Solving content management system (CMS) issues is one of the 10 most important lessons SEO professionals need to learn. Let's explore from an SEO perspective the 10 issues that are the most important watch items when considering a CMS, as well as address some of the functionality that you should look for when evaluating the SEO-friendliness of a CMS..."
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Australian Drupal developers eye further opportunities in government
- PreviousNext launches beta program for new government-focussed Drupal distribution aGov, by Rohan Pearce. Techworld Australia, 2 November, 2012. "Australian Drupal development shop PreviousNext has launched a beta program for a new open source offering intended to make adoption of the open source content management system (CMS) more appealing to government agencies.
PreviousNext's aGov is a free Drupal 7 distribution designed to speed Web development and make compliance with the Australian Government Information Management Office's mandatory Web requirements easy..."
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WordPress Is Probably Powering Your Favorite Candidate's Website
- by Alex Fitzpatrick. Mashable, September 17, 2012. "What platform is powering your favorite political candidate's website? WordPress, probably. Thirty-five percent of U.S. congressional races, 40% of U.S. Senate races, 44% of U.S. gubernatorial races and 41% of state political parties rely on the WordPress platform for their website, according to Automattic, which powers WordPress.com.
Why is WordPress so popular for politicians? It’s simplicity and ease of use, according to Peter Slutsky, director of platform services at Automattic..."
This category last updated: 16 May 2013