Ektron Demo

Web Pro April 2011

Trey McCallie, University Marketing

Ektron Demo

• Agenda– Frequently Asked Questions– Planned Architecture– Integration with non-Ektron sites– Page Builder Templates (NAU version)– Targeted/Variable Content

Frequently Asked Questions

• How many sites you plan to have converted at go-live?– Wave/phase approach (as many as are ready)

• General timelines?– April - New design unveiled– mid-May - Templates ready in CMS– mid-May - CMS Access for initial wave– June - First wave sites populated into CMS– June - CMS Author training (first wave sites)– QA/QC – June/July– Go live – mid-July

Frequently Asked Questions

• When will NAU web developers have a chance to work in the real Ektron environment?– July/August

• What sort of support, if any, will be offered to campus developers who wish to convert to the new CMS?– Developer-specific training will be offered– Possibly bring in Ektron trainer

• When will design specs be available for sites that do not plan to move to Ektron?– Summer

Architecture

Integration with non-Ektron sites

• Ektron web service delivers content based on ID– Web Services

• http://cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/WorkArea/webservices/ContentWS.asmx

• Any external site/scripting language can retrieve/consume content (without template)

HTML Retrieval

• Ektron Content– http://

cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/corporate.aspx?id=1060

• Web Service– http://

cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/WorkArea/webservices/ContentWS.asmx/GetContentBlock?ContentId=1060

Structured Content Retrieval

• Ektron Smart Form Data– http://cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/trai

ninghome/

• Web Service– http://

cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/WorkArea/webservices/ContentWS.asmx/GetContentBlock?ContentId=898

Structured Content Output

Page Builder Templates• Drag-n-drop functionality for site admins• Add/remove widgets

– RSS– http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidenau

• Default functionality lets authors create each new page as a one-off, breaking templating principles (that is a bad thing)

• We plan to use as a template manager, not a page builder for NAU sites• http://cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/EktronPro/

Targeted Content

• Display variable content based on a number of preset conditions– Search engine– Referring URL– Date/Time– URL Parameter

• Analytics friendly URL from a campaign– ?utm_source=newsletter

Ektron Demo

Web Pro April 2011

Trey McCallie, University Marketing