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Professional Services A Team of Cascade CMS Experts

Site development and consulting services are available for any size project and can be tailored for every stage of the implementation process. We have site refresh and redesign competencies, as well as extensive training offerings.

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Professional Services

Our Professional Services team is a group of highly-trained and dedicated individuals here to help with implementation, migration, design, and development projects. Not only are our deliverables industry-best, they provide the foundation for a robust, best-practice implementation.

QuickStart

A QuickStart package is our most popular Professional Services offering. With 19 years of experience, we've designed an implementation package with a pre-defined scope at a reduced rate that will get you up and running as quickly as possible.

Starter Site Implementation

The Cascade Exchange is a resource repository for example sites and code like a calendar site, newsroom, social media mashup, and more. If you need these assets on your site but don't have time or resources available, let us handle the buildout.

Migration

A migration project is a common blocker for switching CMSs, but it doesn't have to be. Our Professional Services team is here to rapidly scale resources available for a migration project. Or let us take it completely off your hands!

Site Setup Audit

The Professional Services team can lend an extra eye to your site setup in Cascade CMS. We can give you detailed best practices on how to improve your setup of templates, sites, permissions, and much more - with a focus on the future.

Extended Service Agreement

If you do not have a full-blown project in mind, purchasing a block of hours is a great option. Consume budget while it's available, and engage us for a project when you're ready.

Consulting

We provide ad hoc consulting to our customers, which can be provided through screen-sharing sessions. Let us know what you need help with, and we'll create a custom consulting package for you.

Thank you so much!!! You are an amazing partner. You definitely contributed big to our successful launch.

Gina Price, Purdue University

We appreciate our partnership with Hannon Hill and look forward to collaborating on more web development projects in the coming weeks and months.

Jamie Jones, Mount Mercy University

This looks awesome, I feel like a kid on Christmas!...I’m in la la land, this is such a breath of fresh air compared to how we’re currently doing things.

Troy Knight, William Carey University

In need of training?

Hannon Hill provides comprehensive training programs for both technical and non-technical users of Cascade CMS.

Honestly, I'm very happy with how you've helped me learn the new things that are out there regarding Cascade CMS, and always learning new things from you.

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The hands-on training teaches participants how to create and integrate the fundamental assets needed to build a website from scratch, taking full advantage of Cascade CMS. The majority of the content is directed at technical System Administrators and Developers.

Topics included, but not limited to:

  • Cascade Interface, Dashboard, Site Content Views
  • Administration, Users, Groups, Roles, Workflows
  • Creating a Page: Convert an HTML Page to a Cascade Page
  • Introduction to Coding Formats using Velocity for Page Content
  • More Formats and Index Blocks, Navigation, Breadcrumbs, Macros
  • News Section, Articles, Archives, Feeds, Content Reuse/Syndication
  • Managing a Site, Settings, Publishing, Connectors
  • Reports for Managing Content and Users
  • Open Block, Dedicated time with Trainer

The Cascade CMS Groupcamp teaches you how to work with the fundamental assets needed to manage a website from scratch.

From speeding up onboarding of a new developer to having 1-2 users needing a refresher, this training covers the core skills you need to know. This option is perfect for organizations that don't need a large number of users trained and are okay with being part of a group training.

There is something for System Administrators, Webmasters, Developers, Managers, Trainers, and Power Users, but the vast majority of the content is directed at technical System Administrators and Webmasters/Developers.

Topics Covered

  • Cascade Interface, Dashboard and Site Content Views
  • Administration, Users, Groups, Roles, and Workflows
  • Creating a Page, Converting an HTML Page to a Cascade Page
  • Coding Formats, Using Velocity for Page Content
  • Formats and Index Blocks, Navigation and Breadcrumbs
  • Content Reuse/Syndication through News, Articles, and Archives
  • Managing a Site, Settings and Publishing

Important Information

  • This training is for Hannon Hill customers who have been with us for more than one year.
  • Space is limited in order to facilitate an effective training.
  • A maximum of two users per organization will be enforced.
  • Customers needing more than two users trained should contact the training team to ask about our dedicated Cascade CMS Bootcamp.

End User Training is conducted over a maximum of two hours. The hands-on training is designed to introduce participants to Cascade CMS. End Users or Content Contributors learn the basics of managing content within your specific Cascade CMS implementation subject to the Roles, Abilities, and processes you have in place.

Topics include, but not limited to:

  • Logging In, Overview of the Cascade Interface
  • Creating New Content, Working with Content Wizards
  • Editing WYSIWYG and Structured Content
  • Content Checks - Spelling, Broken Links, Accessibility
  • Content Collaboration - Workflow, Tasks, Comments
  • Previewing, Comparing, Saving, and Publishing Content
  • Additional Actions - Move, Rename, Delete, Unpublish, Versions

If you're not quite ready for the full customized end user training, we encourage you to take advantage of our generic end user training webinar recording. Your specific implementation can (and will) vary based on your design. However, this webinar will highlight the major areas of the user interface you'll want to know about and a number of different content creation examples.

Hannon Hill is proud to offer our customers customized training options. We will work with you to develop a specific agenda for covering your particular needs. Custom trainings are designed to cover specific portions of Cascade CMS and allow users to ask detailed questions.

Additional topic suggestions, but not limited to:

  • Workflows
  • Velocity
  • Web Services
  • Managing Users, Groups, and Roles
  • Content Reuse Strategies
  • Advanced Page Layouts
  • Publishing Non-HTML Content
  • Planning Site Structure
  • Migration Tool