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Developing websites using IBM Web Content Manager 8

Course outline

WPL435 days

Duration

5 days

(WPP43G = SPVC code)

Course Description

IBM Web Content Manager is a powerful solution that delivers engaging, personalized web experiences across multiple channels. It keeps content relevant, consistent, and drives higher conversion rates, improves customer loyalty, and increases user engagement. This instructor-led course is designed to introduce experienced web developers to the concepts and skills necessary to build a website and authoring system using IBM Web Content manager. Through hands-on exercises, web developers will go through the entire lifecycle process from planning through development and delivery. This version of the course specifically addresses new features in IBM Web Content Manager 8.0 such as :

  • New topics such as WCM tags, CTC, Page templates, and Managed Pages
  • New authoring environment that uses basic and standard home page
  • Change management features such as Project Workflow

Audience

The target audience for this intermediate course is users who need to build a website and authoring system using IBM Web Content Manager 8.

Prerequisites

You should have:

  • Some experience using HTML and CSS
  • Experience in website development and maintenance
  • Experience in existing workflow and security practices

Skills taught

  • Build a website using IBM Web Content Manager
  • Create components for reuse and ease of maintenance
  • Create a content authoring system and authoring templates for ease of use by users who maintain content
  • Implement change management practices

Day 1

  • Welcome
  • Exercise 1. Overview of Web Content Manager
  • Exercise 2. Templates, components, items, and WCM search

Day 2

  • Exercise 4. Pages, portlets, and page templates

Day 3

  • Exercise 6. Adding navigational components to your website
  • Exercise 7. Adding rule-based content

Day 4

  • Exercise 8. Custom authoring features
  • Exercise 9. Working with drafts, workflows, and projects

Day 5

  • Exercise 10. Item management
  • Exercise 11. User access and security
  • Exercise 12. Content Template Catalog (CTC)

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.