The document contains questionnaires for gathering requirements for developing a new open source CMS website. It includes questions about the existing website's good and bad aspects, content migration needs, search engine URL handling, design requirements, users and roles, forms, search features, social media integration, available and required modules, compatibility with devices, operating systems and browsers, performance goals like page load times and visitor numbers, data capacity needs, enhancement frequency, and expected visitor growth rates.

1. Questionnaires for Open
Source CMS Proposal

2. Questionnaires for Existing Website
 GOOD OR BAD THING
 List down all the good or bad things about your existing website.
 Example: Design, Navigation, Performance etc…
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 CONTENT
 Do you require any migration of content/Images from an existing website to the new website? If
yes please tell us what format the data is currently in.
 Example: html web pages, Word file, Excel File, MySQL database etc…
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 OLD SEARCH ENGINE URL HANDLING
 It may possible in the conversion of old site to new site, Content & Other pages URL may change
as compare to cached by Search Engines. Do you require any handling of old Search Engine URL
by 301 Redirects?
 Example: List of URLs cached by Google, Yahoo etc…

3. Index
 Questionnaires for Existing Website
 Other Questionnaires
 Compatibility
 Performance
 Scalability

4. Other Questionnaires
 DESIGN
 Do you want a custom design or readymade template?
Example: templates from site like http://www.templatemonster.com/ ,
http://themeforest.net/ etc..
 In case of Custom design list down Unique Page design.
Example: Home page, Content Page, contact Page etc..
 Do you require any graphic designing?
Example: Banners etc..
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 USERS & ROLE
 List down all the users with their roles
 Example: Guest user can only view, Registered User can view & Post etc.
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5.  FORMS
 List down all the required forms.
 Example: Contact, Advance search, Login etc..
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 SEARCH REQUIREMENT
 General Keyword search required or any other?
 Example: Google map, Suggestion Search etc..
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 SOCIAL MEDIA
 List down all the social media need to integrate and up to what extent.
 Example: Facebook with Like & Registration only, Twitter to Share only etc…

6.  MODULES
 List down all the modules of the site
 Example: Content, Search, User Account etc..
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 NOTE: Now we need to filter these modules like:
 Available in open source
 Plugin need to integrate
 Custom development require

7. Compatibility
 DEVICE
 List down all the device on which website would run.
 Example: Computer, Mobile etc..
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 OPERATING SYSTEM
 List down all the OS on which website would run.
 Example: Window, Mac OS etc..
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 BROWSER
 List down all the Browser on which website would run.
 Example: Chrome, IE with versions, Safari etc..

8. PERFORMANCE
 PAGE LOAD TIME
 Define desired page load time.
 Example: 8-10 second
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 NO OF VISITORS
 Define expected traffic range.
 Example: 8-10 K visitors in peak hour, 80-90 K visitors in a day
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 DATA CAPACITY
 Define website database capacity
 Example: 500 categories, 10-12 K content pages etc..

9. SCALABILITY
 ENHANCEMENT
 How frequently enhancement required?
 Example: Every month, Every year etc..
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 VISITOR GROWTH RATE
 What is your expectation towards visitor’s growth rate?
 Example: 5% every month, 10% every year etc..

10. Contact Details
 Nitin Kumar
+91 98 7373 1595
yanitin@gmail.com