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Web Solutions CMS

Best Practices:
Part One
October, 2009
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Web Solutions CMS
Best Practices: Part One
Table of Contents

1.0 Summary 4
2.0 Project and Content Organization 4
2.1 Project Organization - Background 5
2.2 Best Practices for Project Organization 5
2.3 Content Creation - Background 6
2.4 Best Practices for Content Creation and Organization 7
3.0 Templates Management 8
3.1 Templates Management - Background 8
3.2 Best Practices for Templates Management 8
4.0 Content Reuse 10
4.1 Component Reuse - Background 10
4.2 Pointer Reuse - Background 10
4.3 Best Practices 10
5.0 Content Security Constraints 12
5.1 Background 12
5.2 Best Practices 12
6.0 Workflows 14
6.1 Background - Setting Up Workflows in RedDot 14
6.2 Best Practices 15
7.0 Managing Users and Groups 16
7.1 Background - Creating Users 16
7.2 Background - Types of Users 16
7.3 Best Practices 16
8.0 Publication Packages and SEO 18
8.1 Best Practices 18
9.0 Meta Data Management 19
9.1 Best Practices 19
About Oshyn 20
About Adaeze Okorie 20
 1.0 Summary
This paper is the first in a series of RedDot implementation best practices by
Oshyn.
The goal is to focus on RedDot Content Management System (CMS) and some
of its important features.
In each section, the background provides some insight into RedDot features
that facilitate CMS best practices and then following details provide strategies,
key points and tips on how to leverage these features to achieve an effective,
reliable and robust RedDot Implementation

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