staffing for websites

The Development Operations unit in University Relations is
in the process of completing a Web site for the 10 units
under its umbrella (11 total). The site has a system
administrator and gets technical support from our Network
Computing Systems unit, which is also responsible for
server security. UR has designers on staff, and they
contributed to the site design. I am coordinating the
content side.

Each of the 11 units has its own content manager. The
unit sites are comprised of 7 pages (displayed as tabs),
and the home page has a few standard features. Within
this framework, units are free to create their own content
(under my editorial eye). I'm not sure how many pages
total, but lots.

We are using the Ektron CMS200 content management
system (http://www.ektron.com/). It offers an approval
chain and bunch of handy buttons and features. It's easy
to enter content and create links. The editor works similar
to a word processor, though the more experienced (none!)
can work in the HTML view. No one has had any trouble
using the cms, though it has given our system
administrator some grief.

Ektron is advertising something called the
"eWebEditPro+XML 4.0", touted as "the first browser-
based editing tool designed to make XML authoring
transparent for end-users." We aren't using it, so I don't
know anything about it.

Lynne Turner
Senior Editor, Information Systems
University Relations
510.643.1547
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