enterprise content management system

What is the eCMS?

The Enterprise Content Management System (eCMS) has been designed specifically to create, style and edit powerful tourism web sites.

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What is the eCMS used for?

• The eCMS is used to create tourism web sites with advanced features such as on-line booking, itinerary building, mapping and product searches as well as useful features such as forums, password protected pages and frequently asked questions.

• Multi-lingual and special interest (channel) sites can also be created with the eCMS.

• ECMS Editors can create new pages, add hyperlinks, edit text, add multimedia content and create news articles without having to learn any web programming languages.

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What is the DMS?

• The Destination management System (DMS) is an on-line database containing details of tourism products such as accommodation, attractions and events

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How do the eCMS and DMS work together?

• Tourism websites created using the eCMS can display information about tourism products that has been stored in the DMS.

• Additional information, such as marketing editorial can be entered directly into the eCMS and also displayed on tourism websites.

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The eCMS Welcome Screen

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• Once you have logged in to the eCMS you are presented with a welcome page with a menu bar on the left and a working area taking up the rest of the screen.

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The eCMS Welcome Screen

The menu bar contains 4 tabs:

• The Sites Tab• This where you create and

organise pages on your website

• The Media Tab• This is where you store and

organise media such as pictures movies and PDF documents.

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The eCMS Welcome Screen

The menu bar contains 4 tabs:

• Content Search• Using Content Search you

can search for text content in the eCMS

• Content Aggregator• Using the Content

Aggregator you to search for text content in the eCMS and then e-mail the results

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The eCMS Welcome Screen

• The Working Area

• This is where you edit content on your website.

• The working area contains short cuts to the Content Search and Content Aggregator when it is first displayed.

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The Sites Tab• Clicking on the little cross to

the left of a site name opens the Site Tree

• Clicking on the cross to the left of any item in the Site Tree displays its contents.

• Likewise clicking on the minus sign hides the contents.

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The Site Tree

The items displayed by the site tree can vary between sites, however the picture shows a typical site tree.

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The Site TreeThe site name is displayed at the top of the tree followed by.

• Channel sites • Manages channel sites

• Pages • Manages the pages of the website

• News • Manages news articles

• FAQs • Manages frequently asked questions

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The Site TreeThe site name is displayed at the top of the tree followed by.

• Itineraries • Manages specimen itineraries

• Forums • Manages forums

• Forum Entries to Approve • Enables the approval of forum entries

• Publishing Queue • Manages the approval of site content