Hi Lukas, Seems to me that investing more time diving deeper into requirements analysis up front will be enormously helpful in guiding the selection of a specific solution platform, related tools, and implementation and maintenance methodologies. So many questions come to mind, off the top of my head ...
* security and governance policies: over the wire inside and outside firewall, information access: what, when, by whom, how fine-grained (page, document, element levels?); who maintains customer employee accounts, employee accounts; security-trimmed UIs? * CMS - for what primary purposes: comprehensive EMC with e-discovery? more publishing and maintaining web pages? page-oriented or element-oriented? primary types of digital artifacts (HTML text, movies, images)? * Assuming CMS primarily for web publishing purposes, what workflows to implement? (authoring, editing, SME review, final pub approval, publication and take-down dates, versioning) * What metadata will be developed and maintained throughout published pages, documents and other artifacts. Controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, folksonomies? * What kind of documents (Microsoft Office, PDF, other?). Need for read/write access, versioning? Need to track access, restrict access? * * * Who will upload documents? * Search? Security-trimmed search? * how many total users? * how many concurrent users now and in foreseeable future? Answers to these and other questions involved in a more rigorous examination of your client's needs (both stated and, sometimes more importantly, not yet articulated) can better inform some key strategic decisions: make or buy (i.e., engage a consulting firm for open source or consulting and licensing fees for proprietary? if buy, cloud or self-hosted? what platform? platform out-of-the-box capabilities and learning curves for you and your client. Just some thoughts. Best success, Brian (512) 662-1740 On Friday, September 14, 2012 2:55:10 PM UTC, Lukas Oktaba wrote: > > Hello Refresh Austin, > I'm a freelance web designer/ developer, I'm currently working on a > project that is a little out of my element. I need to develop a site that > has a cms and an employee only portal where the client would upload documents > and make announcements. Also their would be a employee log-in where > employees could download documents. > > Anyone know how I can get this done, I am looking for a salution that I > can take to future projects and grow my skills with. Any help or ideas > would greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Lukas.O > -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
