2. WHAT WE HOPE TO COVER
The evolution of the internet and new media
Video: The internet at work
Content Management Systems
• What is a CMS Why we use CMS
• Discussion of Content management
platforms
3. THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The World Wide Web— The Web—
is a network of computers able to
exchange text, graphics, and multimedia
information via the Internet.
The Internet- Is a global interconnection
of computers
4. ABOUT THE INTERNET
The Internet has revolutionized computers
and communications like nothing before
Has world-wide broadcasting capability
A mechanism for information dissemination
A medium for collaboration and interaction
without regard for geographic location
5. HISTORY
The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was
brought online in 1969 under a contract led
by the renamed Advanced Research Projects
Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four
major computers at universities in the
southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research
Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah)
6. HISTORY
J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global
network of computers in 1962
Moved over to the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late
1962 to head the work to develop it
7. HISTORY
The Internet was designed in part to provide
a communications network that would work
even if some of the sites were destroyed by
nuclear attack
The early Internet was used by computer
experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians
8. WORLD WIDE WEB
Tim Berners-Lee and others at the European
Laboratory for Particle Physics, more
popularly known as CERN, proposed a new
protocol for information distribution in 1991
based on hypertext
Hypertext is a system of embedding links in
text to link to other text
9. NOW
E-mail and web are now multimedia-rich
The Net has become an entertainment center
Social Networks and Mobile are major
aspects of the internet
10. WHAT IS CMS
CMS – Content Management System, is a
powerful and painless way to manage all of
your E-commerce, content management and
business process needs. A content
management system is software that keeps
track of every piece of content on your Web
site. In short you can say CMS is the web
application used to manage information from
the website without knowing any technical
information about markup languages or web
technologies.
11. WHY USE CMS
• User-friendly browser based publishing tools
- No technical skills required
• Compliance with Accessibility requirements
- Disability Legislation/W3C standards
e.g. Visitors with a visual impairment
• Project will facilitate intranet publishing
- Different Audience groupings
(Staff/Student/Postgraduate)
- Channels in Connect
• Delegated Publishing Model
- remove publishing bottlenecks
12. WHY CMS
• Compliance with Official Languages Act
- Bilingual Content
- Multilingual Content
• Content Reuse
– Core information syndicated to multiple locations
– ―Publish Once and Use Anywhere‖
• LDAP Integration
• Improved Search Functionality
• Audit Trails and content version control
13. CMS PLATFORMS
WordPress
Word-press without any doubt is the best
blogging platform and has healthy developer
ecosystem with countless plug-ins which help
you incorporate your efforts on your word-
press based site. This popular CMS helps you
create beautiful websites and blogs. It is free
of cost so you can use freely as per your will
and website requirements.
14. JOOMLA
Joomla is a dynamic portal engine and a
content management system. This award
winning CMS enables you to create powerful
websites and online applications. This easy to
use and extensible CMS is written on PHP
which enables user to easily publish their
contents on World Wide Web. It is also freely
available to anyone and there are many
themes and extension from which you can
choose.
15. CMS MANAGER
Responsibilities
• Oversee migration to the CMS Environment
• Main site contact for IT Services and others.
• Ensure good quality content with authority to
demand standards from contributors and reject
where appropriate
• Monitor and maintain content/manage
delegation to others
• Serve as moderator QA sign-off for workflow
• Take ownership for site navigation and site main
top - level pages
• Monitor web site statistics to direct site
improvements.