By Morgan Griffith
Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 4:00pm
If you frequent our blog, you may have seen our recent multi-part series documenting best practices when taking on a new site implementation with the Cascade Server web content management system and the Hannon Hill Professional Services team. Kat Liendgens, Professional Services Manager outlined these practices to aid organizations working with our Services team to implement a new site.
From this blog series, you may be familiar with the scope of the work our Professional Services team produces; you may not, however, have seen it live. This week, new sites were launched for Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the University of Hartford with the help of our Professional Services team. It's one thing to hear about how website implementations are conducted, it's another entirely to see the end result. Below we've highlighted these two recent Professional Services implementations.
Auburn University, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
The Hannon Hill Professional Services team implemented a completely new website for Auburn's College of Engineering. The new site features a sophisticated news implementation, which allows various members of different divisions to submit articles to go through an approval process. Each news item can be associated with one or more categories and is displayed on the appropriate news sub-pages or the homepage, based on this categorical selection. A news item can also be tagged as "sticky news." If content is flagged as such, even if there are more current news items to display on a homepage or sub-page, the sticky item will always stay on the page (until the flag is removed). The Auburn implementation also features the development of seven new Content Types and a substantial amount of content reuse functionality.
University of Hartford
The University of Hartford worked with the Professional Services team to integrate a new aesthetic design into Cascade Server. One of the key goals of this project was to allow end-users to update web content while maintaining a consistent look and feel across the site. As part of the implementation, the Services team implemented six new Content Types, including those for news articles and events postings. Event postings are implemented so the users has the option to display events on the homepage when they become acute. The team also implemented index pages and archives for both the news and events portions of the site. This Professional Services integration also included a content approval workflow.
We look forward to continuing to spotlight the tremendous work our Services crew is producing with our web content management system, Cascade Server. If your organization is interested in consulting opportunities or working with our Services team to implement a new site, please contact our Professional Services team.
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