GovCMS Site Builder Manual
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GovCMS8 Site Building Training Manual
Contributing and Feedback Guide
Software and module requirements
UNIT 1: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
Overview
Layout of a GovCMS page
Regions in GovCMS
Planning your site
About our client
Understanding requirements
Audience analysis
User (visitor) personas
Define user stories
Roles and Permissions
Test permissions
Blocks in GovCMS
Site navigation
Footers
Theme settings
Unit 1 Summary
UNIT 2: DESIGNING AND PLANNING CONTENT
Designing and planning content
Planning your site structure
Planning data entry and display
Discussion
Add and configure fields
Manage form display
Unit 2 Summary
UNIT 3: MANAGE MEDIA
Manage Media
Customise image display with image styles
Review configuration of image media display
Unit 3 Summary
UNIT 4: TAXONOMY - CATEGORISING CONTENT
Taxonomy - Categorising content
About input options
Editorial considerations
Prepare documentation for new staff onboarding
Content creation forms
Unit 4 Summary
UNIT 5: TEXT FORMATS AND RICH TEXT
Text formats and rich text
About cross-site scripting
Text formats
Unit 5 Summary
UNIT 6: CONTENT LISTING WITH VIEWS
Content listing with Views
Views - Part 2
Related content by term
Customize the content administration experience
Unit 6 Summary
UNIT 7: URL ALIASES
URL Aliases
URL Redirects
Menu check
Unit 7 Summary
UNIT 8: SITE BUILDING EXERCISES
Site building exercices workshop
Extend content types with new fields
Agency reference link
Job list dropdown filter
Discussion
Views contextual filters
Further discussion and exercices
Employee list and custom profiles
Unit Summary
Discussion
UNIT 9: SEARCH AND RELATED CONTENT
Search and related content
Unit Summary
UNIT 10: SITE PERFORMANCE
Overview
Planning for Peformance
Define Goals and Requirements
Review current issues and bottlenecks
Other performance considerations
Unit 10 Summary
Glossary of terms
Appendices
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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.

In this training manual, you will learn how to:
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    Extend default functionality in GovCMS to meet advanced functional requirements
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    Show best practices for GovCMS site building
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    Configure both controlled vocabularies and free tagging with Taxonomy
  4. 4.
    Manage navigation through the GovCMS menu system
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    Use URL path configuration to improve your site’s search
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    Configure automatically generated images and thumbnails
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    Create advanced listings of content
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    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.

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].

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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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