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Sit! Fetch! Roll Over! Tricks You Can Perform with a Content Management System

Presenter: Susan Mehringer, Cornell Theory Center

In 2001 the Cornell Theory Center began working with a Content Management Server (CMS) from Microsoft to organize, design, and deliver Web pages. In the three years since our introduction to the then-strange world of workflow, templates, and roles, we have learned to not only deliver Web pages, but also to use CMS to perform "tricks." I will discuss several of the tricks we learned as well as the issues associated with topics such as navigation templates, creating a work flow process suited to your organization, designating roles, and page templates. For example, on the surface page templates allow for standardization and constrained content authoring. With a little additional effort, templates can also be used to pull specific content from other pages, sort information, and present different information based on content. How much time and effort will this require? Is the effort put into a template measured by the number of pages that will be based on it or the number of hits that page receives? Planning and maintaining a CMS-based Web site will surely benefit from forethought on these issues.

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