Building Pages

Use Case: AcmeBooks.com

AcmeBooks.com is a fast growing company that specializes in foreign and hard-to-find books. Recognizing it needed a stronger presence on the Web, it recently installed and deployed Ektron CMS400.NET.

The Chief Information Officer of Acme Books is especially excited about the company’s recent move to CMS400.NET. She is particularly interested in PageBuilder, feeling it will enable the Marketing team to respond to changing market conditions and quickly launch and communicate promotions on the AcmeBooks.com Web site. She is also pleased that PageBuilder promises to appease the company’s Web site developers. No longer will they have to deal with numerous daily requests for content changes from Marketing.

So, she wonders, “How does it all work? How will the Web team work together to use PageBuilder?” Right now, the team is composed of herself and:

Pete. He runs the Web Development team (including designers).

Grace. She is the CMS/Web site administrator.

Pierre. Acme Books' Marketing guru. He is also in charge Marketing and Acme Books’ content authors.

This section also contains the following topics.

PageBuilder Workflow

Steps to Creating a “PageBuilder” Page

Create a PageBuilder Wireframe

Enable Manual Aliasing

Adding the Wireframe and Widgets into the CMS

Assign the PageBuilder Wireframe to a Folder

Create the New Page

Place Widgets on the Page

Part 1: Add New Column and Set Column Widths

Part 2: Insert New Content Block Widget into Right Column

Part 3: Insert a List Summary Widget into Left Column

PageBuilder Master Layout

Final Assessment