Cascade Server Site Migrations - Lessons from the front!

Monday, September 24, 1:30 - 3:00 PM

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Are you new to Cascade Server and CMS publishing? Do you want to gain practical knowledge that can help you speed delivery of your site migrations? If so, this presentation is for you. Our recent experiences will help you with your migrations.

The University of Richmond is on track to migrate more than 40 distinct web sites this year to Cascade while creating a handful of new sites as well. In addition, we are migrating away from a variety of web application development languages and standardizing on PHP.  We have completed more than six migrations as well as standing up a brand new site. 

Come learn why our small, dedicated team is so excited to be part of migrating so many sites and about our trials and tribulations, best practices and challenges still un-solved.

Topics will include:

• The importance of a clearly defined work process
• Why having Information Architecture training is important for both the creative and technical teams
• How we prioritize our site migrations and avoid being the “bad guys”
• What Cascade Server best practices we have developed and what works for us
• How we conduct Cascade Server user training
• How we approach Cascade Server workflow development
• “Why good enough is good enough”
• How we avoid broken links when sites get radically redesigned and how to spot CMS mangled URLs and remove them
• Why Apache rewrite rules and redirects are our friends
• Why we love AWSTATS, Google Analytics and Google Web Master Tools
• Why traditional staging layers like dev, test, QA don’t work well when migrating sites into Cascade Server and what to do about it
• And so much more

Be prepared for a fast paced, fun presentation.  You will leave thinking, “wow I’m glad I attended that one.”

About the Speaker:

Eric Palmer (CSM, CIPP), Director of Web Services at the University of Richmond is responsible for more than 85 external facing web sites that include the home pages, schools, academic departments and more.  Eric has about 9 years of experience with the web.  He started by running his own web development boutique in the mid 90s and later became CTI/CIO of two dot.com companies. More recently, he was in charge of Capital One’s internet account acquisition IT group. Eric has a diverse IT and business background, having built and sold two successful consulting/training companies, has more than 20 years of relational database experience and oddly 4+ years of intense banking regulation compliance and operations experience. He is a Certified Scrum Master from the Scrum Alliance and Certified Information Privacy Professional from the International Privacy Professional Association (IAPP).

Eric loves the web and living in these times.  He is crazy passionate about using an agile/scrum approach for running projects.  If you want to know more, stop him and ask him “what is up with Scrum!”

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