The document summarizes recent enhancements to the WebWriter CMS including the ability to drag and drop departments on the site map, department-specific calendars and recurring calendar events, photo galleries, admin-controlled dropdown menus, a Twitter module, and mobile support for home pages. It also mentions that a new version of the CMS platform is in development based on feedback from users.
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Demosphere Users Group Recent Content Management System Enhancements
1. Demosphere Users Group
WebWriter CMS ®
Recent Content Management System
Enhancements
Presented by Miles Baker
January 15, 2011
2. Recent System Enhancements
Site Map Drag & Drop Departments
Department-specific Calendar Events
Recurring Calendar Events
Photo Galleries
Admin-controlled Dropdown Menu Content
Twitter Module
Mobile support for Home Pages
3. Site Map Drag & Drop Departments
When viewing the Site Map with admin
rights, click and hold one of the gold
directional arrow icons for each
department and drag to desired
destination.
The department will be partially
transparent to assist in placement.
To place the department, release the click
when an available destination slot is
displayed.
4. Site Map Drag & Drop Departments
Upon releasing the department, an
orange border surrounds the newly-
placed content, the sequence
numbers are updated, and an alert
indicates that the content is still not
saved.
Manual adjustments to the sequence
numbers are also possible.
Clicking the "Update SEQ" button at the bottom of the page updates all
sequence numbers, and initiates the public version of the Site Map to
regenerate it's content.
5. Department-specific Events
Add a Calendar to a department or sub department
by clicking the red "New Calendar" button.
Add an Event to a calendar by clicking the
blue + icons on any day.
Calendars placed in departments or
sub departments, display only
events added to those sections of
the web site.
These events also have an option
to be included in the general site
calendar listing.
6. Recurring Events
Events repeating Weekly may select
which days of the week to include in
the recurrence.
Events may recur indefinitely, or
until a specified date.
Events repeating Monthly will
occur on the same week day of
the "Nth" week.
7. Photo Gallery
From any Dept or Sub Dept, click a
"New Photo Gallery" button.
The resulting page lists all photo galleries within the web site, allowing
you to either place an existing gallery or create a new one.
Clicking on the name of an
existing gallery will immediately
place it to the destination page.
To create a new gallery, type the
name into the text input area and
click "Create New Gallery"
8. Photo Gallery
You begin by uploading images
from your computer.
When you have images added to the
gallery, click and drag them to sort.
Captions may be added, too.
To remove an image, click the
red X icon.
When ready, click Save or
Cancel Changes.
Clicking "Place This Gallery"
immediately posts the gallery
to the destination page.
9. Dropdown Menus
From Admin Home, choose SITE MAP tab,
then click Drop Down Menus.
The "Menu tree view" column displays all
menu content. The Controls column
provides management capabilities.
10. Dropdown Menus
Dragging content from the left
"Available site contents" column
provides new menu items.
Click "Apply changes" under Controls
to check your work.
Save when complete
Upon saving, all public pages will update within about a minute.
11. Twitter Module
Upon installation, our graphics team will consult on
the colors and aesthetics of the new embedded
module.
While logged in as admin, viewing a page containing
a Twitter module will display a link to edit the
settings.
You may change the Twitter account name, or
number of feeds visible, at any time to adjust what is
displayed to the public.
Clicking "Save" updates
your web site.
12. Mobile Support for Home Pages
Visiting a home page from a mobile device
automatically brings up a specially
formatted list of articles.
Clicking an article title displays the story.
There is a Back button to return, as
well as a button to view the non-mobile
version of the article or the Home
Page.
13. Thanks for the feedback!
These enhancements were developed in part from feedback we
received from our Features Survey conducted last year.
Based on the survey and internal research, we have begun
development of a completely new CMS platform which we plan to
begin offering in 2011. This new version will enable us to continue
providing your organization with the necessary enhancements and
communication tools in order to respond to market changes and
technological advances.
If you are interested in becoming a Beta user for this new version,
please let us know!
If you have any questions or suggestions about the current or
future versions of WebWriter® CMS, please let us know!
support@demosphere.com