New USPS Web Site Background Current Status Future Plans

New USPS Web Site Background Current Status Future Plans

Agenda Background First Steps Current Status Future Plans Joomla Basics Questions 2

Background Decision Made To Replace Current Web Site Development And Maintenance Requires Technical Skills Difficult To Maintain Need Marketing-Based Public Site 3

Background ITCom Was Approached In Arlington To Create Demo For BOD Meeting In November Produce “Public Face” Of Site 4

First Steps Gathered Material Provided To Developer Gathered Requirements Decided To Use Content Management System 5

First Steps Selected Joomla And WordPress For Evaluation Installed Joomla 2.5 And WordPress On Server 6

First Steps Selected Joomla Used Artisteer Tool To Generate Template 7

First Steps Augment Team Marketing Representation Additional Software Talent Others For Specific Tasks 8

Current Status Created Functional Public Site New Site Look / Feel Will Be Shown On Saturday Demonstration For You Today Will Become www.usps.org 9

Current Status Backup Server Operational Need For Development Shouldn’t Develop On Live Site 10

Current Status Working On Templates Gathering Department And Committee Page Requirements Want Unified Look 11

Current Status Fully Functional Easy To Maintain Minimizes Need For Technical Skills Links To Existing Site Pages (After Logon) 12

Current Status Let's Take A Look About Ready To Go Live With Public Pages Have Already Worked On CommCom Pages Has Caused Template Changes 13

New USPS WEB Site Future Plans 14

The Plan Remaining Pages be Converted to A Content Management System (Joomla) Many Advantages to USPS A joint Webmaster / Itcom Project 15

Joomla Basics Content Management System (CMS) Open Source & Free Modern WEB Site Design Back End Program To Define Web Pages Front End Program To Manage Web Page Displays 16

Joomla Back End Tools to Create Database Content Provides On-Line Editors to Create Items Content Stored In Database Articles - The main topic of a page Modules - Other Items Displayed Menus - Items that Define a Page 17

Joomla Front End User Requests a Menu Item Evaluates User Permissions Obtains Content From Database Template Controls Placement 18

Joomla Users & Groups Front End Users Back End Users Public Manager Registered Administrator Author Super Users Editor Customizable to Organization Link to Joomla Back End Link to Joomla Front End 19

Template – Top Half 20

Template – Bottom Half 21

Member Site on Joomla Many Advantages: Quick and easy page management Consistent brand and navigation Workflow management Flexibility for developers Design is separate from content Database-driven Shared resources . Approval systems Mobile ready Archive capabilities Remote access Security Search engine-friendly Many extensions available How Do We Use It? 22

Member Site Path Keep Remaining Pages “as-is” Essential for the Immediate Future Copy, use a current page as a “Model” Create Site Structure to Meet Needs 23

Member Page Standard Templates Department Template Committee Template Project Template Others, as needed 24

A Joomla Implementation Will: Reduce Webmaster Challenges Provide a Structure that can evolve Provide tools to Centralize Information Reduce Site Maintenance Needs Provide Access to External 25

Project Plan 1. 2. 3. 4. Finish and Deploy Public Site Develop Member Site Requirements Template Decisions Deploy Development Environment 26

Immediate Tasks - Committee Setup on-line meeting schedule Work to gather Requirements Refine and publish a Project Plan Establish Webmaster Development Environment 27

Webmasters Should Learn CMS & Joomla Concepts Practice Joomla Survey Your Pages Identify Main Message Identify Common Items 28

Summary We Could Use Some Help Questions 29