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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Unit 2 Summary
In this unit we looked at the differences between the basic content types and how you can customise your own content types with additional fields. Most of the planning and work you’ll do on your site requires careful mapping out of content types, thinking about how they will be displayed on your site.
It’s also important to get your clients to test the content creation forms using real content to make sure the content types you designed model the data correctly and are flexible enough to be expanded.
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Testing content types
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Manage Media
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