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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
Exercise 1: Configure account settings
Test permissions
Blocks in GovCMS
Site navigation
Footers
Exercise 2: Build the related links menu
Exercise 3: Assign the related links menu block to a region
Exercise 4: Rearrange the main menu
Theme settings
Exercise 5: Set custom error messages
Unit 1 Summary
UNIT 2: DESIGNING AND PLANNING CONTENT
Designing and planning content
Planning your site structure
Planning data entry and display
Content stragedy
Discussion
Add and configure fields
Manage form display
Testing content types
Unit 2 Summary
UNIT 3: MANAGE MEDIA
Manage Media
Customise image display with image styles
Exercise 6: Review configuration of image media display
Unit 3 Summary
UNIT 4: TAXONOMY - CATEGORISING CONTENT
Taxonomy - Categorising content
About input options
Try out the new vocuabulary
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 the cross-site scripting
Text formats
Unit 5 Summary
UNIT 6: CONTENT LISTING WITH VIEWS
Content listing with Views
Related content by term
Exercise 7: Configure data field and Event content type
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
How to add About author block to News article
Further discussion and exercices
Employee list and custom profiles
Unit Summary
Discussion
UNIT 9: SEARCH AND RELATED CONTENT
Search and related content
Exercise 8: Create new search page with Search API
Add fields to the index
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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Layout of a GovCMS page
Pages in GovCMS hold Regions. Regions are defined in the theme (in code, in an info yaml file) and cannot be altered via the GovCMS administration backend.
The content is placed into Regions as Blocks. Some blocks are created by Content Editors, they are called content blocks. Other blocks are created by modules or Views and provide predefined content listings from the site (e.g. listing of events or publications) or from other systems (e.g. a Twitter block shows Tweets).
You may explore the default theme GitHub repository to review the available regions: https://github.com/govCMS/govcms8_uikit_starter/blob/8.x-1.x/govcms8_uikit_starter.info.yml#L8
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Theme in GovCMS

A theme is a set of files that define the visual look and feel of your site. The core software and modules that run on your site determine which content (including HTML text and other data stored in the database, uploaded images, and any other asset files) is displayed on the pages of your site. The theme determines the HTML markup and CSS styling that wraps the content.
The default theme shipped with GovCMS 8 is the “GovCMS 8 UI-Kit Starter” at https://github.com/govCMS/govcms8_uikit_starter.
The theme defines what regions are available in your GovCMS site.

Regions in GovCMS

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