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Traditional content management systems (CMS) have been employed by some universities to provide a mechanism for template-driven authoring of high-end enterprise websites.
Traditional CMS have built in features that allow versioning and workflow control to manage, organize and edit website content. Version control allows users to retrieve and view multiple versions and stages of edited content while workflow allows the editing of content to be managed from initial authoring to final publishing.
Designed for enterprise publishing, CMS assigns tasks to high-level, technically skilled individuals within an organization. Tasks such as, defining hierarchy of web-pages, creating links for navigation, restricting or permitting access to files and web-pages for viewing and editing are typically the responsibility of a system designer or administrator within traditional CMS.
Limitations:
Traditional CMS are not designed to meet the specific needs for individual website publishing. While restricting faculty and students' control over most facets of website creation and management, high-level administrative and technical support staff remain inundated with performing non-technical administrative tasks that could be distributed to individual non-technical website owners.
CMS are very expensive solutions that can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement and ten's of thousands of dollars for yearly support and maintenance fees.
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GVC.SiteMaker is a website and content creation and management system designed for individual faculty and staff within K-12 and higher education.
While providing essential technical and administrative functionality for high-level technical individuals to control the overall system, GVC.SiteMaker allows technical support and administration staff to save time and enhance its services by allowing distributed content management control to the individual website owner.
Providing the individual website owner with low level access to the system, faculty and students receive enhanced content management control over their own personal websites, which allows them to do things such as; define website hierarchy of web-pages, create navigational structure and restrict or permit access to files and web-pages.
GVC.SiteMaker is designed to allow non-technical users the ability to easily and quickly create and manage their own individual websites. Using GVC.SiteMaker within the context for which it was designed, individual website owners require little need for workflow capabilities since the individual website owner has full authoring control over their individual website.
As well, standard versioning capabilities within traditional CMS are not available in GVC.SiteMaker; however, through the use of virtual tables built within GVC.SiteMaker, users do have the ability to retrieve and view multiple versions and stages of edited content.
In addition to traditional CMS, GVC.SiteMaker allows individuals to use simple databases for their own personal websites. Users can define their own data tables and then create pages for data entry, searching, sorting and presentation, using standard or customized layouts.
As a tool designed for K-12 and high education, GVC.SiteMaker's implementation, support and maintenance costs are typically 1/10th to 1/20th the cost of traditional CMS solutions.
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