Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach

Russell Nakano

  • 出版商: Addison Wesley
  • 出版日期: 2001-09-25
  • 定價: $1,280
  • 售價: 1.6$199
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 272
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0201657821
  • ISBN-13: 9780201657821
  • 相關分類: 網頁設計
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For business managers and web practitioners, the success of their most vital web initiatives depends on doing one thing particularly well--managing web content. As web site content grows in volume and importance, its development and maintenance can no longer be performed either informally or by a single group. Instead, content must be systematically developed, deployed, and managed through standard techniques and processes that enable the site to scale.

Written by the leading visionary in the field, Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach presents the principles, practices, and mindset involved in web content management. Learn the core issues of collaborative development, including versioning and managing concurrent changes. See how a solution framework used by many Fortune 1000 companies details a step-by-step process for designing and implementing a content infrastructure, including a workflow architecture and a task-based deployment methodology.

This book prepares you for the issues you are likely to face. It describes key tools, processes, and organizational approaches that support effective web content management and shows how all of these elements can be expertly integrated into a world-class enterprise solution--a web site with plentiful, current, and dynamic content that gets critical information to customers, employees, and suppliers quickly.

You will learn:

  • Development principles that allow you to scale web sites to enterprise class
  • Proven ways to organize enterprise web sites
  • The underpinnings of web site versioning, concurrent changes, and templating
  • The work area/staging area paradigm of development
  • How to distinguish source files from generated files
  • How workflow and approval patterns allow web sites to innovate continuously
  • How to handle multiple web initiatives
  • How web systems typically integrate with databases, template systems, document management systems, deployment, and backup systems
  • Current trends in content management and what these trends imply for the future

Real-world case studies drawn from the author's extensive experience consulting for large companies illustrate the practical use of content management techniques. In particular, new managers will find tremendous value in viewing the practices of other web organizations through these "day-in-the-life-of" examples.

With Web Content Management as your guide, you will be better prepared to elevate your web site--whether it is small, growing, or already large--to an information-rich, enterprise-scale solution.

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Manuel Terranova.
Peng T. Ong.@CHAPTER = Preface.


Acknowledgments.

I. MOTIVATION FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT.

1. The Internet Changes the Rules of the Game.

Executive Summary.
Introduction.
Overview.
Fear and Greed.
Rules of the Game.
Rule #1: It's the Assets, Stupid!
Rule #2: Experiment. Iterate. Grow.
Rule #3: Respond to Customers Quickly and Frequently, or Lose Them!
Rule #4: Enable the Masses!
Rule #5: Make It Manageable and Reproducible.

Summary.
Roadmap.


2. Overview of Content Management.

Executive Summary.
From Prototype to Enterprise.
2 a.m. Software.
The Pioneers.
The Tornado.
Go Dot-com.

Terminology.
Universality of Assets.
Managing Web Assets.
Live Editing.
Staging the Web Site.
Independent Edit Areas.
Content Management.

Content Management Architecture.
Content Creation/Editing Subsystem.
Repository Subsystem.
Workflow Subsystem.
Deployment and Operations Management.

Summary.

II. CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES.


3. Principles of Collaborative Web Development.

Executive Summary.
Introduction.
Basic Concepts.
Stakeholder Identification.
Are We in the Chaos Zone?
Development and Production Separation.
Asset Identification.
Direct Feedback (WYSIWYG).
Parallel Development.
Versioning.
Control Mechanisms: Auditing and Enforcement.

Summary.


4. Best Practices for Collaborative Web Development.

Executive Summary.
The WSE Paradigm.
Collaboration Strategies.

Collaboration Operations.
Submit Operation.
Compare Operation.
Update Operation.
Merge Operation.
Publish Operation.

Work Cycles.
Version Snapshots.

Common Work Cycles in Web Development.
Real-Time Development Work Cycle.
Compare-Update Work Cycle.
Review Work Cycle.
Major Test Work Cycle.

Summary.


5. Templating Empowers Content Contributors.

Executive Summary.
Background.
The Freshness Imperative.
The Challenge of Change.
Enabling Change.
A Template System.
Example: ezSuggestionBox.com.
Advantages of a Template System.

Summary.
Practitioner's Checklist.


6. Workflow Speeds Work Cycles.

Executive Summary.
Using Workflow.
Characteristics of Web Development.
People Factors.
Project Factors.
Process Factors.
Business Factors.

Virtual Assembly Line.
Workflow Concepts.
Interaction Pattern.
Tasks.
Job.
Transition Links.
Active and Inactive Tasks.
Building a Workflow.
Notification.

Designing a Workflow.
1. Identify Interaction Sequences.
2. Identify Candidate Workflow.
3. Sketch the Steps.
4. Identify Known and Not-Yet-Known Parameters.
5. Add Remaining Transitions.
6. Add Notification Steps.

Summary.
Practitioner's Checklist.


7. Deploying Content.

Executive Summary.
Introduction.
Concept Review.
The Release Agreement.
Common Pitfalls.
Continuous Change.
Database Assets.

Design Considerations.
Incremental Changes.
Making Changes Transactional.
What Initiates Deployment?
Script Integration.
Rollback.

Designing a Deployment Infrastructure.
Enterprise Deployment Architecture.

Summary.
Practitioner's Checklist.


8. Multiple Web Initiatives.

Executive Summary.
Introduction.
Overview.
Concepts.
Logically Independent Web Site.
Task Overlap.

Basic Branch Patterns.
Single-Branch Pattern.
Agency Pattern.
Short-Term/Long-Term Branch Pattern.
Dependent Branch Pattern.

Identifying Branch Patterns.
Example--Using Branches in a Dot-Com Company.
Dependent Web Sites.

Summary.
Practitioner's Checklist.

III. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION.


9. Using Web Content Management for Globalization.

Executive Summary.
Introduction.
A Globalization Initiative.
The Easy Path Leads to Trouble.
Design a Solid Platform for International Development.
Branch Structure.
Work Area Structure.
Special Situations.

Workflow Design.
Template System Design.
Deployment Design.
Summary.


10. Summary and Conclusions.

Executive Summary.
Introduction.
Revisiting the Rules.
It's the Assets, Stupid!
Experiment. Iterate. Grow.
Respond to Customers Quickly and Frequently, or Lose Them!
Enable the Masses!
Make It Manageable and Reproducible.

Future Trends.
Content Becomes More Structured.
Content Contributors and Their Tools Become More Specialized.
Blurring the Distinction between Web Operations and the Rest of Business.
More Distributed and Flow-based Handling of Assets, Tasks, and Jobs.
More Emphasis on Content Tagging to Enable Storage, Retrieval, Search, Reuse, and Routing.
Emphasize 24 x 7 Management Infrastructure.

Conclusion.

IV. APPENDICES.


Appendix A: A Smart File System.
Appendix B: A Workflow Design for Formal Hand Off Between Groups.

Executive Summary.
Introduction.
Requirements.
QA Hand-off Workflow.
Summary.


Appendix C: A Workflow Design for Predetermined Time Schedules.

Executive Summary.
Problem Scenario.

Background.
Time-Slot Technique.
Time-Slot Techniques—Detailed Example.
Discussion.
Variations on the Time-Slot Technique.


Appendix D: Basic Process Steps of a Best-Practice Content Management Process.

Executive Summary.
Example: Web Site.
A Best-Practice Development Process.
Example: Rebranding Initiative.
Summary.


Resources.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

對於企業經理和網站從業人員來說,他們最重要的網絡項目的成功取決於一件事情的特別出色 - 管理網絡內容。隨著網站內容的增長和重要性,其開發和維護不再可以以非正式或單一團體的方式進行。相反,內容必須通過標準技術和流程系統地開發、部署和管理,以實現網站的擴展。

由該領域的領先先驅撰寫,《Web內容管理:協作方法》介紹了網絡內容管理所涉及的原則、實踐和思維方式。了解協作開發的核心問題,包括版本控制和管理並發更改。看看許多《財富》1000強公司使用的解決方案框架如何詳細描述了設計和實施內容基礎設施的逐步過程,包括工作流架構和基於任務的部署方法。

本書為您準備了可能會遇到的問題。它描述了支持有效的網絡內容管理的關鍵工具、流程和組織方法,並展示了如何將所有這些元素專業地集成到世界一流的企業解決方案中 - 一個具有豐富、即時和動態內容的網站,可以快速向客戶、員工和供應商提供關鍵信息。

您將學到:
- 允許您將網站擴展到企業級的開發原則
- 組織企業網站的有效方法
- 網站版本控制、並發更改和模板化的基礎
- 開發中的工作區/暫存區範例
- 如何區分源文件和生成文件
- 工作流和審批模式如何使網站不斷創新
- 如何處理多個網絡項目
- 網絡系統通常如何與數據庫、模板系統、文檔管理系統、部署和備份系統集成
- 內容管理的當前趨勢以及這些趨勢對未來的影響

從作者在為大公司提供咨詢服務的廣泛經驗中提取的實際案例研究展示了內容管理技術的實際應用。特別是,新經理們將在這些“日常生活中”的例子中發現其他網絡組織的實踐價值。

有了《Web內容管理》作為指南,您將更好地準備將您的網站 - 無論是小型、成長還是已經很大 - 提升到信息豐富、企業級解決方案的水平。

目錄:
- 前言
- 引言
- 致謝
- 第一部分:內容管理的動機
- 第1章:互聯網改變遊戲規則
- 第2章:內容管理概述

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