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
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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Understanding requirements
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When you’re building a site, it’s important to understand the client’s requirements. These cover creative requirements, technical requirements and content requirements.
    1.
    Creative requirements Think about the site’s visual look and feel. The branding that needs to be applied, the colour scheme, and the agency’s creative requirements. What sort of websites do they like (a mood board with sample designs might help here). Ideally, you should also bring user research into the site building to understand the site’s audience and help you create personas and user pathways.
    2.
    Technical requirements Think about the required functionality and how this maps to GovCMS. Which modules will you be using? Do you need to integrate with third-party APIs? At this stage, you’ll also need to decide whether GovCMS SaaS or PaaS is a better fit.
    3.
    Content Requirements GovCMS comes with six content types out-of-the-box. While these content types are designed for government, you may need additional content types. Will your site use blocks? Think about the site’s taxonomy. You should also consider the content editors/users to work out what roles you’ll need and whether you’ll need content moderation workflow

Establishing requirements

The steps below provide a high-level overview of establishing requirements:
    Define the minimum viable product (MVP)
    Build a roadmap: Decide what are the features beyond the MVP? Identify features that are “low hanging fruit” - easy to build with high business value
    Set measurable goals so you can measure the project’s success
    Review the current systems
    Consider mobile devices and establish WCAG compliance requirements
    Research the editor types required for the site, and any approval workflow that’s required
    Who are the site visitors (the audience)? Consider setting up personas for your site visitors
    Define the minimum set of permissions and roles
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