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Item type Examples Details
Profile items
Change management
items
Taxonomies and
categories
Projects, workflows,
workflow stages, and
workflow actions
You use categories to profile certain item types, such as content
items. A category refers to the subject matter of your content. You
group categories within taxonomies.
You use workflows to control the access to, verification, and
eventual approval of IBM Web Content Manager items. When
creating a workflow, you select a set of workflow stages. Workflow
actions are executed upon entering or exiting a workflow stage.
Projects are used to manage changes to a set of items. Only after all
items in a project are approved and made ready to publish are all
the items in a project published to the live site.
Lesson 1.2: Design documents and the website prototype
Your task is to develop a portlet-based website based on a set of planning materials, including an HTML
sample and design document.
Time needed
It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete this lesson.
Planning and design
Before you begin building a website, a set of design and architecture documents will have been
developed. In additional to these, there may also be some HTML samples available for you to use as the
basis for your website design.
The analysis document
An analysis document is used to record the information gathered from stakeholders that
determines the design of the website, its content, and its features.
The design document
The design document is used to record information that you, as the website designer, can use to
help you build both the website and the content authoring system. The parts of the design
document that you use include the:
v Information architecture
v Design architecture
v Authoring architecture
v Content acquisition architecture
v Delivery architecture
Accompanying guide for SPVC - not for distribution
8 IBM Web Content Manager: Developing Websites Using IBM Web Content Manager 7 (Student Guide)