GovCMS Site Builder Manual
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UNIT 1: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
UNIT 2: DESIGNING AND PLANNING CONTENT
UNIT 3: MANAGE MEDIA
UNIT 4: TAXONOMY - CATEGORISING CONTENT
UNIT 5: TEXT FORMATS AND RICH TEXT
UNIT 6: CONTENT LISTING WITH VIEWS
UNIT 7: URL ALIASES
UNIT 8: SITE BUILDING EXERCISES
UNIT 9: SEARCH AND RELATED CONTENT
GovCMS8 Site Building Training Manual
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This manual is aimed at developers familiar with Drupal and/or other web content management systems (CMSs) who want to build or extend a GovCMS SaaS website. You should have skills in basic HTML, CSS, some Twig and basic PHP.
Public URL: https://salsa-digital.gitbook.io/govcms-site-builder GitHub URL: https://github.com/govcms-training/site-builder​
What you will learn
In this training manual, you will learn how to:
- 1.Extend default functionality in GovCMS8 to meet advanced functional requirements
- 2.Show best practices for GovCMS8 site building
- 3.Configure both controlled vocabularies and free tagging with Taxonomy
- 4.Manage navigation through the GovCMS menu system
- 5.Use URL path configuration to improve your site’s search
- 6.Configure automatically generated images and thumbnails
- 7.Create advanced listings of content
- 8.Maintain a secure and well-performing website
This manual also includes challenge exercises, which are designed for those who have additional time or who want to know more about a particular feature.
Contributing & Feedback
We’re continually working on improving these documents with community input and we appreciate any feedback, whether it's helping to contribute to further documentation or code, grammar issues, or simply a suggestion or improvement! Please refer to the Contributing guide for more guidance on this topic.
Alternatively you can also provide any feedback by emailing [email protected]
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU).
This manual has been created for the GovCMS Site Builder course. The manual uses a combination of content from drupal.org, adapted content from drupal.org and content we’ve written specifically for the GovCMS Site Builder course. Re-used and adapted content is in accordance with the Creative Commons License, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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