Web Content Management

ScheduleRegister for this courseOutline175 | Understanding and Evaluating Web Content Management Systems

2 days, 9am-4pm (1.2 CEUs)
Delivery: Open-Enrollment | Customized Onsite | Virtual Classroom
Price: $1,170 or 2 Vouchers

This course will provide the user with information needed to choose and implement a CMS solution, and teach best practices in a CMS implementation. Additionally, students will have a chance take an existing site and experience the steps needed to move that site into a CMS system. Finally, the students will be given a hands-on tour of existing CMS products, and be provided the opportunity to actually use several CMS products to see their benefits and limitations.

By the end of the class students will be able to:

  • Be conversant in the language of content management
  • Be able to evaluate the merits of various Content Management Systems (CMSs) based on your company's needs
  • Understand the cost of installing and maintaining a CMS (Why free isn't always free and expensive can sometimes save money!)
  • Be aware of the limitations of CMSs
  • Know how to prototype a site around a CMS
  • Be aware of how to gear your site (and your staff!) to a CMS implementation
  • Be familiar with the best practices in CMS implementation
  • Know the 6 most common CMS pitfalls
  • Understand how to estimate the costs and ROI of a CMS implementation
  • Prerequisites:
    Comfortable using the Internet
    Basic knowledge of Information Architecture is useful but not required