Intro to Umbraco for Content Editors – Part 1 (Managing Content)


Having spent the last month or so getting familiar with Umbraco, we decided to do a screen cast that demonstrates how the Umbraco Content Management System is used to manage a web site. There are many great developer oriented videos on Umbraco.tv, but we did not see many from the user’s perspective. This is just intended to be a sufficient “first look” at Umbraco’s capabilities, in reality we are just scratching the surface of what Umbraco can do. The site that we use for the demo is the Creative Website Starter kit from Warren Buckley.

Managing With Enterprise Content Management

Managing With Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Content Management involves capturing structured and unstructured content that’s generated all over the enterprise, storing that content, processing it into information, delivering that information to those who need it for decision-support, and finally transferring it to long-term storage for preservation until it can be removed safely from the system.

Enterprise Content Management seeks to prevent duplication of functions and redundancy in resource usage that are typical where each department and function uses dedicated stand-alone systems.

Earlier articles identify capture, storage and preservation, and delivery components. This article explores the “management” component that works on other components to achieve desired results.

This management component manages content capture, processing and transformation, and information delivery. It uses databases and access-authorization systems to do this. It also attends to the archiving and final removal functions.

Elements of the Management Component

Document Management: Document management involves:

Check out/Check in facilities for working with the content,
Version control to make different versions of the same content available to users,
Search and retrieval facilities for locating and accessing needed information, and
Viewing facilities to see the information in overview and other kinds of views

Collaboration Management: Collaboration management involves providing facilities that make working together possible. These facilities include:

Using common databases
Designing workflow procedures for more than one person to work on documents and processes
Providing facilities such as white-boarding and video conferencing that allow a number of people to hold discussions from different locations, and also add files and notes for reference and actions
Providing facilities for administrative tasks such as appointments scheduling

Managing Web Content Management

Managing Web Content Management

Even if you do not believe that ‘Content is King’, you have got to admit that content is surely an integral part of a website and needs due attention. Marketing, in today’s world, is no more restricted to merely electronic billboards; websites have stepped in and how effectively so! They are massively employed to promote products and companies, manage transactions, extend information and services, and enable easy communication.

Changes in your website are bound to appear in shortest of intervals and it is impossible to track the continuous revisions throughout a site on a daily basis. This complexity and speed has resulted in the need for an automated procedure to manage web content management. Karmick Solutions, a leading web development company in India, sees to it that you receive the best assistance in managing web content management.

The ideal solution to web content management can help your business save money and time; develop and better communications; build up corporate relationships and boost revenues. The perfect solution can also ensure the agility, scalability and enterprise system interoperability, essential to fulfill future site necessities.

The Indian web designers have mastered the web development expertise well enough to tell you that the web content management for your website revolves around numerous distinct measures and schemes to help you optimize your site as well as your business. Plainly, you need to strike a balance between your website requirement and content management system. Take a look at the following pointers: