1. A Successful Web Content Management System Implementation Jay Knape Manager of Web Services Columbus State University

2. Successful WCMS Implementation

3.  Success In the first 14 months, the Web Team has implemented 62 (50%) of CSU sites into OmniUpdate OU Campus. All done by:  3 full time staff  Up to 4 student assistants

4. Successful WCMS Implementation Redesign of Web Pages ____________________________ CMS Implementation

5. Successful WCMS Implementation  Why Split? Best Practice  Dos and Don’ts of implementing a WCMS Focus on task at hand Learning curve for WCMS

6. Successful WCMS Implementation  Where we started September 2006 Finalized 6 layouts

7. Successful WCMS Implementation  Implemented new look with existing tools  December 2006 – RFP for WCMS  May 2007 – Reward RFP to OmniUpdate

8. Successful WCMS Implementation  August 2007 – Installed and Configured OmniUpdate  As of October 2007 51 sites were in the new look  38% of sites selected to move into OmniUpdate 134 total site within colstate.edu domain  28% sites would not moved into WCMS

9. Successful WCMS Implementation  Process Student Assistants  Worked on sites already in new look Staff  Continued working with departments doing complete redesign Sites  Only active pages  HTML 4.0 W3C standard  508 accessibility guidelines  CSS styling

10. Successful WCMS Implementation  October 2008 77 sites in WCMS  15 sites in development  62 sites live  44,630 files  3,173 directories 145 Users trained  Trainer – Jay Knape  1.5 hour training class  Required class

11. Successful WCMS Implementation  Changes made: Windows to Gentoo Linux IIS to Apache ASP to PHP MS SQL/Access to MySQL MS Frontpage to Dreamweaver

12. Successful WCMS Implementation  Encounters Redesign  Everyone wants to be on the University home page  Welcome attitude for the layouts  “Do I have to look like everyone else” attitude

13. Successful WCMS Implementation  Encounters WCMS  ASP on Apache  Quirks with OmniUpdate  Getting the templates set-up correctly

14. A Successful Web Content Management System Implementation Jay Knape knape_jay@colstate.edu Manager of Web Services Columbus State University