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Collage at Cass Business School

Collage at Cass Business School. Cass Business School. Major UK Business School Requirements Marketing Programmes, research, students, involvement Internal Communications “Intranet”, Teaching & learning External communications Alumni, Press, Events Accessibility Multi-browser support.

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Collage at Cass Business School

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  1. Collage at Cass Business School

  2. Cass Business School • Major UK Business School • Requirements • Marketing • Programmes, research, students, involvement • Internal Communications • “Intranet”, Teaching & learning • External communications • Alumni, Press, Events • Accessibility • Multi-browser support

  3. Website History • Version 1 • Hand rolled, limited • Version 2 • Out-sourced - unmanageable • Version 3 • Early CMS - Control but loss of flexibility • Version 4 • Collage! - Control & Flexibility

  4. Resources • Team of three • Branding toolkit • Some consultancy on implementation • Systems support • Lotus Domino for DB Apps • But - no developer resources

  5. 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

  6. Why CMS? • Standards • Control • Support • Brand • Versioning • Templates • Self managing links • The future

  7. Why (Commercial) - Collage? - Standards • J2EE • HTML 4.0 • JavaScript • CSS • XML (The future?) • Collage does not get in the way • LDAP

  8. Why Collage? - Control • One definitive version • Not editing live site • Fine grained security model • Approval cycle • Versioning • Compliance - SENDA (Section 508)

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Why Collage? - Templates • Nested templates • Intelligence • Majority of site implemented in one template • Integration with asset metadata

  13. Why Collage? - Self managing links • Drag and drop assets and links are remembered • Components - self describing information

  14. Why Collage? - The future • Integration with Lotus Domino through J2EE • Extensible • Store information as XML • Put it in front of Oracle 9i • Run it on Linux • Multiple Collage Servers/Database Servers • Office -> PDF Conversion (GhostScript)

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