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Collage at Cass Business School
12th June 2003 - IWMW - UKC
Cass Business School
• Major UK Business School• Requirements
MarketingProgrammes, research, students, involvement
Internal Communications“Intranet”, Teaching & learning
External communicationsAlumni, Press, Events
AccessibilityMulti-browser support
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Website History
• Version 1Hand rolled, limited
• Version 2 Out-sourced - unmanageable
• Version 3Early CMS - Control but loss of flexibility
• Version 4Collage! - Control & Flexibility
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Resources
• Team of three• Branding toolkit• Some consultancy on implementation• Systems support• Lotus Domino for DB Apps• But - no developer resources
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Process
• Technology Immersion• Site Architecture• Template and CSS Development• Clean up old content• Migration of content• Tidying up• Switch on - to new domain at same time
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Why CMS?
• Standards
• Control
• Support
• Brand
• Versioning
• Templates
• Self managing links
• The future
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Why (Commercial) - Collage? - Standards• J2EE• HTML 4.0• JavaScript• CSS• XML (The future?)• Collage does not get in the way• LDAP
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Why Collage? - Control
• One definitive version• Not editing live site• Fine grained security model• Approval cycle• Versioning• Compliance - SENDA (Section 508)
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Why Collage? - Web team’s friend
• Remote support - WYSIWIS• Collage paradigm easy to assimilate• Self generating navigation elements• Real time link management• Integration with Dreamweaver (itself customisable)• Audit log - who did what and when?• Versioning & rollback• Web interface, ftp, WebDAV• Components - re-usable chunks
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Why Collage? - Brand
• In 2002 City ->Cass rebrand• Need to implement brand right through site• But need for flexibility & differentiation• Intelligent Templates with asset metadata• Style sheets & Image assets
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Why Collage? - Users friend
• Versioning - A huge reassurance for all users• Staging server• Content contribution - simple interface• Scheduled deploy• Easy to get support - WYSIWIS• Link management• Only simple formatting needed for attractive end product
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Why Collage? - Templates
• Nested templates
• Intelligence
• Majority of site implemented in one template
• Integration with asset metadata
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Why Collage? - Self managing links• Drag and drop assets and links are
remembered
• Components - self describing information
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Why Collage? - The future
• Integration with Lotus Domino through J2EE• Extensible
Store information as XMLPut it in front of Oracle 9iRun it on Linux
Multiple Collage Servers/Database Servers
• Office -> PDF Conversion (GhostScript)
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