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What Is CY Portal

What Is CY Portal. Presenters : Jeffrey M. Arko – Project Manager Victoria Wilson – Graphic Designer Oguz Olcay – User Interface Developer. Agenda. Before CY Portal Designing Architecture Wireframes and Layout Graphic design Development CY Portal Features. Multiple websites

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What Is CY Portal

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  1. What Is CY Portal Presenters: Jeffrey M. Arko – Project Manager Victoria Wilson – Graphic Designer Oguz Olcay – User Interface Developer

  2. Agenda • Before CY Portal • Designing Architecture • Wireframes and Layout • Graphic design • Development • CY Portal Features

  3. Multiple websites Multiple user accounts Dozens of admins Orphaned content Random architecture Dissimilar layouts Multiple servers Maintenance nightmare No functionality Portal History SUMMARY • Information disorder & low user satisfaction

  4. Single website Single user account Content owner is admin Orphaned content Unified site architecture & design elements Single server ‘Maintenance-free’ Increased functionality Portal Requirements SUMMARY • Organized information & high user satisfaction

  5. Designing Architecture • CY Portal Architecture: • Defining Assets • Applications • Sections • Categories • Documents • Registering User Groups from LDAP • Mapping Access Profiles (Permissions Matrix) • Security • SSL and Firewall • At Section level • At document level

  6. Assets Documents Images Webcasts URLs Databases Users Upload Documents Download Documents Sign up for Notifications Portal Architecture

  7. Portal Architecture Mapping • Dynamic Content • Dynamic Navigation

  8. User Mapping

  9. Wire-frames and Layout: Challenges: Restrictions: Time & Performance Dynamic Content Dynamic Navigation Tabs to display levels Easy to update Easy to add Sales person in a hotel room in Taiwan with a slow laptop and slow connection Browser Issues Standard Netscape 4.7 Limits Style Sheets Limits JavaScript Limits DHTML Limits Form Fields Ah Freedom ! Flash MX for back-end Wireframes and Layout

  10. Technology: ColdFusion Oracle LDAP Flash MX XML Tools DreamWeaver MX Flash MX, components Macromedia Case Study Challenges: Anything can change Browser issues JavaScript, DHTML Style sheets Limited documentation on Flash MX components Dynamic Navigation Download dialog box Microsoft Knowledge Base Development

  11. Result: CY Portal • Features: • Share Content • Manage Access Profiles • Email Notifications • Document Expiration • Coming Soon: • Sales Organization LDAP Tool • Webcast Tool • More Powerful Search Algorithm

  12. CY Portal

  13. Graphic Design • “Just copy the corporate site” • Design Challenges • Added a search feature that chewed up content space • How to display so much content in a limited area • Too many Assets to fit into the top nav area • Wanted to add 2 areas of promotion that we didn’t have before.

  14. Cypress.com

  15. Portal Sub-page

  16. Graphic Design • Comps in Photoshop • Design Revisions • Flatten and slice • Prototype in DreamWeaver

  17. Thank You Demo

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