Freight Transport Association (FTA) is one of the UK's largest trade associations. FTA is a not-for-profit organisation that represents the interests of companies that move freight goods by road, rail, sea and air. We lobby the UK and European Governments on behalf of our members and we provide business services to help our members become more efficient in logistics. OpenCms became the Cms of choice for FTA about four years ago. Beginning with OpenCms v7, we host and develop 14 of our own sites in addition to other UK and European organisations. We are now in the process of upgrading all sites to OpenCms v8 and are midway through that process having migrated seven so far. Presenting FTA as a case study, we are keen to share how we have upgraded to version 8 showing examples of the sites we have built. We will also talk through some of our custom development which includes a number of bespoke modules specific to our needs and how we have integrated our internal systems into OpenCms. We will also be releasing our first mobile app for iPhone, Android and Blackberry and will share how we have used OpenCms to integrate web content into the app.

1. OpenCMS Days 2012
User case study - Freight Transport Association, UK
Matt Levy - Senior Web Developer

2. User case study - FTA
• A bit about me
• A bit about FTA
• Moving to v8
• Lessons learnt
• The future
• Questions

3. A bit about me
• Senior Web Developer at FTA
for 10 years
• Web and Java developer for
more than 13 years
• Responsible for team of
four techies
• Responsible for 14 websites
• Keen cyclist and golfer

4. A bit about FTA
• One of the UK's largest trade associations
• A not-for-profit organisation that represents
the interests of UK companies that
move goods by road, rail, sea
and air
• Lobby local, national and
EU Governments
• Provide business services
to help members

5. Moving to v8
• Action plan
• Converting content and modules
• Integrations
• Social media, Google Analytics, email newsletters
• Responsive design
o All v8 sites to be mobile-first
• Mobile app
• Using OpenCMS for app content

6. Action plan
• Lots of sites (14)
• Single sign-on
• New modules
• Converting content
• Links to FTA systems
• Editor experience and buy-in
• Editor training
• Convert all sites to v8 by end 2012

7. Lots of sites
Some examples of the sites we have moved -

8. Lots of sites
Some examples of the sites we have moved -

9. Lots of sites
Some examples of the sites we have moved -

10. Lots of sites
Some examples of the sites we have moved -

11. Single sign-on
• Single SSL site for authentication
• FTA login token accepted on all sites
• Single org unit for members
• Members added to other org units/groups for
access

12. New modules
• Banner
• Contact
• Download list
• Email news
• External link
• Hero-item
• Internal link
• RSS feed
• Map markers

13. New modules
• Banner
• Contact
• Download list
• Email news
• External link
• Hero-item
• Internal link
• RSS feed
• Map markers

14. New modules
• Banner
• Contact
• Download list
• Email news
• External link
• Hero-item
• Internal link
• RSS feed
• Map markers

15. New modules
• Banner
• Contact
• Download list
• Email news
• External link
• Hero-item
• Internal link
• RSS feed
• Map markers

16. New modules
• Banner
• Contact
• Download list
• Email news
• External link
• Hero-item
• Internal link
• RSS feed
• Map markers

17. New modules
• Banner
• Contact
• Download list
• Email news
• External link
• Hero-item
• Internal link
• RSS feed
• Map markers

18. Converting content
• Static content copied to new v8 content folder
• Container pages created
• Detail pages added
• Used as much of v8 features as possible
• Cleaner CSS-based column layouts

19. Links to FTA systems
• Members are given access through our CRM
system
• Online training course prospectus is linked to
our training system

20. Editor experience and buy-in
• Presented summary of OpenCMS Days 2011
• Response to v8 has been fantastic!
• Created our first v8 site to demonstrate what
can be done
• Best features are the multi-file upload and the
drag and drop layout editing

21. Editor training
• Conducted one to one refresher training
• Created PDF training guides
• Created video how-tos

22. Convert all sites by end 2012
• We’re getting there
• More than half way through!

23. Integrations
Social media, Google Analytics, email newsletters

24. Integrations
• Social media
• Bookmarking and linking – enable in content
• Facebook likes – enable in content
• Google Analytics
• Page clicks and binary file clicks (PDF)
• Email click-through tracking
• Email newsletters
• Ability to set-up campaigns and tracking opens, links etc

25. Responsive design

26. Responsive design

27. Mobile app
iPhone Android

28. Mobile app
• Native app container (PhoneGap)
• Local app cache for offline content
• App linked to OpenCMS for content
• JSP formatters for content delivered as JSON
• Editors use workplace for creating content
• Categories assigned to content for filtering

29. Lessons learnt
• Front-end editing much more user-friendly for
staff
• Editing saves time and effort
• Editors find uploading a breeze so more content
is added
• Meta-tags are included in content for detail
pages

30. The future
• Update to OAMP v8
• Blog module
• Publish request

31. Questions

32. Thank you
Thank you for listening!
Visit FTA online - www.fta.co.uk