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new CMS launchCreated by Scott Crevier (St. Norbert College) on September 9, 2005
Holy cow, what a month! I've come to learn that August is pretty busy around here, preparing the campus and our network for the arrival of students.
I was just getting used to posting occasional blog entries, and then August hit. It was pretty typical around here, but on top of all the usual exciting activities, we also launched a new content management system for our web site. We implemented Cascade Server (formerly ContentXML) and all went pretty well. I've got several campus departments now maintaining their own content using the new system. We're going to be adding our academic programs web content to the system next, and 2006 will be the big year to get the entire campus using it. Through the use of the CMS, I'm now able to give certain people access to update certain parts of criticle pages, like our home page. I also created a MySQL database for our press releases as well as our A-Z index. Now, a non-techie person can maintain those databases, and the content automatically appears on the web site via a couple of CGI programs that I wrote. In addition to the new CMS, we also rolled out a new design for our site, which was a long time coming. So we've had a lot going on. I'm defiinitely looking forward to an exciting fall and winter in northeast Wisconsin!
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We will be converting our Microsoft CMS to Cascade Server during October here at Gonzaga. If you had any gotchas, I'd like to hear about them.