Getting Started with Ektron
Ektron manages the life cycle of content, from creation to approval and publication. It helps your organization set up a process for overseeing changes to a website, indicate the status of content within that life cycle, and inform the next approver that it is their turn to review the content.
Business users, such as marketing or public relations professionals, can author, manage and publish Web content, build and deploy Web forms, and collect and leverage visitor information. The editor supports the industry’s best in-context editing environment, ensuring user adoption and project success.
People interact with your Ektron website in different ways. Some people operate in different roles, and sometimes different roles overlap in activity. For example, a developer uses PageBuilder to create page structures and content authors use PageBuilder to build a page in those structures. Similarly, some administrators and developers may perform installation and set up actions.
The major roles for people interacting with your website are as follows:
- Content Author—creates content for your website and may edit the content in context on the Web page, or modify content in the Workarea. Content authors can have specialized roles and permissions, such as a discussion board administrator.
Content author information- Using the eWebEdit400 Editor
- Using a Third-Party Editor
- Creating New PageBuilder Pages
- Editing Content on a PageBuilder Page
- Displaying Content on Your Website
- Managing Content
- Working with Ektron Content
- Working with Assets in the Document Management System
- Storing Files in the Library
- Working with Collections
- Optimizing Page Layout with Multivariate Testing
- Assigning and Managing Tasks
- Managing User Communities
- Working with Discussion Boards
- Working with Forums
- Working with Blogs
- Working with Calendars
- Assigning and Managing Tasks
- Administrator—manages the website including access to all content, taxonomies, users, rules, and settings.Administrator information
- Setting Up Your CMS Folder Structure
- Managing Content
- Working with Ektron Content
- Using Widgets
- Using Menus
- Using Taxonomies
- Using Breadcrumbs
- Personalizing a Web Page
- Creating User-Friendly URLs with Aliasing
- Analyzing Content
- Working with Smart Forms
- Using Taxonomies
- Creating User-Friendly URLs with Aliasing
- Creating Business Rules for Your Website
- Defining Roles
- Accessing the Permissions Table
- Managing Users and User Groups
- Synchronizing Servers Using eSync
- Sending Notifications to a Community
- Administering Web Alerts
- Developer—writes APIApplication Programming Interface code, modifies ASPX pages, creates wireframethe architecture of a Web page containing columns, dropzones, and layout information. templates with PageBuilder, and create widgetWidgets are mini-applications that you place on a Web page using PageBuilder; a widget provides either specific functionality (calculators, search, social bars, etc.) or areas into which you can add content (content blocks, list summaries, collections, and so on).s to customize your website.Developer information
- Installing Ektron
- Upgrading to Version 8.6.1
- Securing Ektron
- Setting Up Ektron
- Developing Wireframe Templates
- Using Ektron in the Cloud
- Ektron's Mobile-Driven Web Experience
- Setting Up Search for Your Website
- Setting Up the Digital Experience Hub
- Applying Adaptive Image Resizing
- Creating Web Pages with PageBuilder
- Conducting eCommerce
- Distributing Resources with 3-Tier Architecture
- Using Widgets
- Using LDAP with Ektron
- Working with Multi-Language Content
- Sending Notifications to a Community
- Using Ektron Building Block Server Controls
- Customizing Behavior with Extensions
- Ektron Windows Service
- Diagnostics Utility
- Targeting Content with GeoIP Information
- Controlling Output with Ektron Markup Language
For information about developing a Web strategy, see Ektron's Mobile-Driven Web Experience .
Website Models
When you consider creating a mobile-driven Web experience, you can adopt 1 of the following models. With Ektron, you can use responsive and adaptive Web design to deliver a Web experience on a hand-held device.
Single-site model
Benefits:
- A responsive Web design detects the browser size and arranges the content based on that size.
- An adaptive Web design detects the device and arranges content based on style sheets for specific devices, device types, or dimensions of the browser window.
- You can maintain your consistency of brand and message more easily.
Considerations:
- The limited display of the mobile experience forces you to communicate information with less room. You must evaluate your content to determine whether content is relevant or suitable for each type of display.
Multi-site model
Benefits:
- Perhaps you have an existing website that you do not want to redesign. This model separates the content into a site architecture for desktop computers and a site architecture for mobile devices.
- It lets you target your content specifically for mobile devices, avoiding the complexity of developing device-conditional style sheets and manipulating existing content.
Considerations:
- You will maintain 2 sites and ensure that they are synchronized (where applicable).
- Having 2 sites can impact your SEOSearch Engine Optimization - improving the visibility of search results ranking negatively if content is found on both sites.
- You have to set up device recognition so that mobile device requests for your website are routed to your mobile (m-dot) site instead.