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Web Content Management with Documentum

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Web Content Management with Documentum

Overview of this book

One of the world leaders in Enterprise Content Management, the EMC Documentum family of applications helps you manage all types of content across multiple departments within a single repository. With the Web Content Management suite of applications, you can efficiently manage content and underlying processes for your Web properties, and ensures that they are responsive to business needs. To fully realize the power of this system can seem daunting, but this book will help you achieve that. With easy to follow examples, this book will take you the simplest and most straightforward route to success. Along the way, you will learn insights that only a seasoned professional would know. Packed with practical examples, you will get hands-on with the powerful features of Documentum to grow your skills and confidence. You will see tips and tricks to handle complexities of the system, and avoid the common errors that waste your time. From installing and getting started with Documentum, you will see how to design and develop Documentum applications, before rounding off with deployment.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Web Content Management with Documentum
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

10.1 Case Study—Simple Newspaper Website


The best way to learn anything is through examples. Let us take up a simple case study of a fictitious newspaper website that chose to publish its online version via Documentum Web Content Management system. Figure 10.1 shows the homepage of the website, displaying its header section, footer section, main body (center pane), and side navigational links.

Most websites have a similar basic kind of layout and differ mostly in the structure and look and feel of the pages. If you study the homepage carefully, you will notice that it can be divided into the following sections:

  • Header, displaying the newspaper website name, date, and publication company

  • Footer displaying copyright information and other links like Privacy Policy, Contact Us, etc.

  • Side navigation links for the various pages in the website

  • Center pane displaying the selected news article

Figure 10.1: Homepage of a fictitious newspaper website

The idea behind using Documentum WCM to manage this...