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IBM Lotus and IBM® Redbooks® have partnered together to show you how the fictitious company River Bend Tea and Company Inc (River Bend) uses IBM Web Content Manager to build their website. See how they developed the architecture, deployed the system, designed the site, and went live with dynamic content.
Web Content Manager provides a sophisticated web content management tool and platform that is designed to accelerate the delivery and management of critical business information. It enables a collaborative approach to content creation for individuals and teams. It allows for approval of processes, management, and assets. Web Content Manager is an extremely powerful and sophisticated tool that is remarkably easy to use.
This wiki addresses specific technical aspects of Web Content Manager, by discussing its underlying architecture, features, and capability. This wiki focuses specifically on Web Content Manager Version 7, but much of what is discussed here applies to earlier versions of the product as well.
The wiki is divided into five parts:
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Part 1 Introduction
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Part 2 Architecture and design
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Part 3 Building a website - River Bend Tea and Coffee Company
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Part 4 Expanding Web Content Manager environment
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Part 5 Site administration and operations
To support users in the initial stages of learning about the product, this wiki explains how to build a sample site from the initial concepts to asset creation and final delivery. To illustrate the steps in building the site, the wiki builds the sample site for the fictitious company, River Bend Tea and Coffee Company. The wiki then expands upon this experience and explores additional and more sophisticated areas of the product, including where there are opportunities for customization. In addition to discussing specific technical features, the wiki discusses the key concepts and best practices for creating an accurate information architecture and site framework.
DISCLAIMER: This wiki outlines an example of building a basic website using a sample site, River Bend. This sample is not intended as a best practice for development, configuration, architecture, or any other aspect, such as scalability or performance. No warranty or support is implied for the example site or sample code used.
The team who wrote this wiki
This wiki was produced by a team of technical specialists from around the world working together in remote fashion.
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Cali Clarke is a Senior IT Specialist in the UK working with Lotus Collaborative technology in IBM Software Group. Cali joined Lotus over 20 years ago working mostly with Notes & Domino technologies before her current role in Technical Sales. She has worked with WCM since IBM acquired Aptrix in 2003. In her current role she works with large and small customers to develop and facilitate their use of IBM Exceptional Web Experience technologies. In her spare time she enjoys live music, cooking as well as running her nail polish blog. |
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Stuart Crump is a senior accredited IT specialist working in the Lotus brand of IBM's Software group. Living in West Sussex, he travels around the UK , working primarily with finance organisations helping them adopt and gain business benefit from the entire Lotus brand portfolio. Stuart has worked with Lotus Domino, WebSphere and general web technologies for over 10 years. When not working, Stuart enjoys riding and restoring old British motorbikes and plans to take a trip across France and Spain on his motorbike. |
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Dineshbabu Ramakrishnan is a Staff Software Engineer in IBM Software Group in Research Triangle Park, NC working with the IBM Web Content Manager support team. He has over 11 years of experience in both development and support of IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Web Content Manager, and has been working on WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager since 2003. He is also an IBM Certified Application Developer and IBM Certified System Administrator for Workplace Web Content Management, WebSphere Portal, and Web Content Manager. |
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Raul Munoz Serrano is a Collaboration Solutions Architect in IBM Software Group. He lives in Madrid, Spain. He has been working with Portal / WCM technologies for ten years since the early Portal 4.0 days. He likes playing with his children and running long distances from time to time. |
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Hebba Soliman is a Senior Application Developer in IBM Egypt, Global Delivery Center (EGDC). She has been working as a developer and designer in many IBM Web Content Manager and WebSphere Portal projects in the last couple of years.
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Rayomand Sui is a Client Technical Professional (CTP) for the IBM Collaboration Solutions (ICS) software brand in Wellington, New Zealand. In his previous role at IBM, he was part of the IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL) team delivering successful WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager solutions. He has worked with IBM Lotus technologies for over thirteen years and has been involved with IBM Web Content Manager implementations since 2003. He has also co-authored the IBM developerworks white paper "IBM Workplace Web Content Management V2.x to V6.x Migration Guide" and the IBM Redbooks wiki "Building a Website Using Lotus Web Content Management 6.1". In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis, trying his culinary skills in the kitchen and Ceroc dancing. |
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Narla Vasudevamurthy is a Software Engineer at WebSphere Web Content Management L2 Support, IBM Software Group. He has over 18 years of experience in the IT Industry. He has been working with Websphere Portal software since 2003. He is also a IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Application Server.
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Wei-Dong (Jackie) Zhu is an Industry Solution Project Leader with International Technical Support Organization. She has more than 10 years of software development experience in accounting, image workflow processing, and digital media distribution using C, C++, Java, and Lotus Notes scripts. Jackie holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of the Southern California. Jackie joined IBM in 1996. She is a Certified Solution Designer for IBM Content Manager and has managed and lead the production of many Enterprise Content Management redbooks and Lotus Domino redbooks wiki projects. |
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Christopher Knight is a Software Engineer with many years experience working with and supporting IBM Web Content Manager, as well as an IBM Certified Application Developer. He has contributed to and written many wiki and whitepaper topics for IBM Web Content Manager, and it's integration with other IBM products. |
Supporting contributors and reviewers
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
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David De Vos - WCM Field Architecture
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Mark Hampton - Senior Software Engineer
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Rob Enright - ICSS Solution Architect
Thanks to the authors of the previous editions of this wiki.
Authors of the second edition, Building a Web Site using IBM Web Content Management, published in 2008, were:
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John Bergland
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Joesephine E Justin (Joyce)
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Hebba Soliman
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Stuart Crump
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Raul Munoz Serrano
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Erasmus Tapera
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Narla Vasudevamurthy
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Rayomand Sui
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