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Table of contents

• GovCMS8 Site Building Training Manual
• Contributing and Feedback Guide
• Software and module requirements

UNIT 1: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

• Overview
• Layout of a GovCMS page
• Regions in GovCMS
• Planning your site
• About our client
• Understanding requirements
• Audience analysis
• User (visitor) personas
• Define user stories
• Roles and Permissions
  • Exercise 1.1: Configure account settings
• Blocks in GovCMS
  • Exercise 1.3: Place Welcome message block
• Site navigation
• Footers
  • Exercise 1.4: Build the related links menu
  • Exercise 1.5: Assign the related links menu block to a region
  • Exercise 1.6: Configure the related links menu block
  • Exercise 1.7: Rearrange the main menu
• Theme settings
  • Exercise 1.8: Change the logo
  • Exercise 1.9: Create a friendly error page
• Unit 1 Summary

UNIT 2: DESIGNING AND PLANNING CONTENT

• Designing and planning content
  • Exercise 2.1: Compare content types
• Planning your site structure
• Planning data entry and display
• Discussion
  • Exercise 2.2: Design a content type in minutes
  • Exercise 2.3: Create a content type
• Add and configure fields
  • Exercise 2.5: Modify an existing field
  • Exercise 2.6: Add a custom text field
  • Exercise 2.7: Review the field list report
• Manage form display
  • Exercise 2.8: Testing content types
• Unit 2 Summary

UNIT 3: MANAGE MEDIA

• Manage Media
• Customise image display with image styles
• Review configuration of image media display
  • Exercise 3.1: Example use of image styles
  • Exercise 3.2: Add and configure a media field
  • Exercise 3.3 (Challenge): Change image size
• Unit 3 Summary

UNIT 4: TAXONOMY - CATEGORISING CONTENT

• Taxonomy - Categorising content
  • Exercise 4.1: Add new Vocabulary
  • Exercise 4.2: Add Taxonomy field to content types
• About input options
  • Exercise 4.3: Add fields to content types
  • Exercise 4.4: Test the new vocuabulary
• Editorial considerations
• Prepare documentation for new staff onboarding
• Content creation forms
• Unit 4 Summary

UNIT 5: TEXT FORMATS AND RICH TEXT

• Text formats and rich text
  • Exercise 5.1 (Optional): Set up the Rich Text editor
  • Exercise 5.2 (Challenge): Create a new text format
• About cross-site scripting
• Text formats
• Unit 5 Summary

UNIT 6: CONTENT LISTING WITH VIEWS

• Content listing with Views
  • Exercise 6.1: Build the employment news view
• Views - Part 2
  • Exercise 6.3: A customised News and Media page
  • Exercise 6.4: Reuse a Views template
• Related content by term
  • Exercise 6.5: Make a list of States/Territories block
  • Exercise 6.6: Build the related content block
  • Exercise 6.7: Configure data field and Event content type
  • Exercise 6.8 (Challenge): Extend Content type
  • Exercise 6.9: Modify an event listing for future dates
• Customize the content administration experience
  • Exercise 6.10: Administration with View bulk operations
• Unit 6 Summary

UNIT 7: URL ALIASES

• URL Aliases
  • Exercise 7.1: URL aliases - Patterns
• URL Redirects
  • Exercise 7.2: Configure redirects
  • Exercise 7.3: Breadcrumbs
• Menu check
• Unit 7 Summary

UNIT 8: SITE BUILDING EXERCISES

• Site building exercices workshop
• Extend content types with new fields
  • Exercise 8.1: Add an external link field
• Agency reference link
  • Exercise 8.2: Create Agency References
• Job list dropdown filter
  • Exercise 8.3: Configure the job listing
  • Exercise 8.4: Agency logo in Job Posting view
  • Exercise 8.5: Challenge exercises
• Discussion
• Views contextual filters
  • Exercise 8.6: Add About author block to News article
• Further discussion and exercices
• Employee list and custom profiles
  • Exercise 8.7: Set up profile fields
  • Exercise 8.8: Create a list of users
  • Exercise 8.9: Edit the existing view to filter out roles
  • Exercise 8.10: Create a custom layout
  • Exercise 8.11 (Challenge): An image gallery
• Unit Summary
• Discussion

UNIT 9: SEARCH AND RELATED CONTENT

• Search and related content
  • Exercise 9.1: Explore the default search
  • Exercise 9.2: Set up Job posting content type display in global search
  • Exercise 9.3: Create new search page with Search API
  • Exercise 9.4: Add fields to the index
  • Exercise 9.5: Extend the search with Facets
• Unit Summary

UNIT 10: SITE PERFORMANCE

• Overview
• Planning for Peformance
• Define Goals and Requirements
• Review current issues and bottlenecks
• Other performance considerations
• Unit 10 Summary
• Glossary of terms
• Appendices