Presented at 3|SHARE's EVOLVE'14 - The Adobe Experience Manager Community Summit on Tuesday November 18th, 2014 at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, CA. evolve14.com
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3 million+
residents
About 40
departments
BACKGROUND
County of San Diego
4. IT Outsourcing Contract
County Technology Office
Enterprise Services
Government Solutions
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OBJECTIVES
• Retire outdated server
• Make the site responsive
• Freshen design
• Easier Content Management System
County of San Diego
6. June Oct Nov
Dec May
AEM Identified
Design/Approval
Demo
Training
Discovery
June July Aug Sept
Migration
”War Room” – Validation
Go Live
Infrastructure and Development
UAT
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IN-HOUSE DESIGN
GRETCHEN SIZER-KECSKES, ART DIRECTOR
County of San Diego
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DESIGN
• Header
• Footer
• Components
• Styles
- Fonts
- Colors
County of San Diego
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DISCOVERY
• Meet with Adobe and HP
• Out of the box components
• AEM customers
• AEM community
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MIGRATION SUMMARY
• 40 department sites
• Over 70,000 objects in Documentum
• Month of weekend downtime
• Migrate only items with ‘Active’ status
• 95% via automated script
• Solution for URL continuity
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CONTENT VALIDATION
• Direct support from HP team
• Remove inline styles
• Embedded media (YouTube, JavaScript)
• Fixed-width anything, mostly tables
• Convert absolute to relative links
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CONTENT SYNC
1. Track now, update later
2. Update in two environments
3. Migrate later in schedule closer to Go Live
County of San Diego
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DOCUMENTUM
• Multiple content-specific
templates
• Form-based editing
• 14 steps for an update
• Required Java
County of San Diego
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AEM
County of San Diego
• Single Sign-on
• One generic “Interior
Page” template
• In-context editing
• 5 steps for an update
• Handy sidekick
• Content browser
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ISSUES
• WYSIWYG isn’t completely configured
• Long pages displays timeout
• No preview server
• Requires a modern browser
• At least 1280px width monitor resolution
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22. • Dedicated
room
• Wi-Fi
• Daily calls
• Issues tracker
• Webcam
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PLATFORMS AND DEVICES
Identifying targets:
• Analytics
• In-house core
software
• Management
Device sources:
• What you have nearby
• Loaners
• Electronics store
• Open Device Lab
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THINGS TO REMEMBER
q Mobile devices with multiple browsers
q Check popular pages based on analytics
q Test forms and 404 error pages
q Fields and input types
q Portrait and landscape mode
County of San Diego
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ASSET MANAGEMENT
GRETCHEN SIZER-KECSKES, ART DIRECTOR
County of San Diego
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DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
• Expectations
• Migration
• Reality
• Plans for the future
County of San Diego
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BRANDING
• Applying our Style Guide
• External Sites
• Governance
• Best Practices
County of San Diego
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SEARCH
• Search-Centric Site
• DigitalGov vs.
Adobe Search
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30. Lessons Learned
• Documentation
• Resources
• Training
• Development
• Integration
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31. THANK YOU.
Tegan Glasheen
Communications Director, County Communications Office
tegan.glasheen@sdcounty.ca.gov
Gretchen Sizer-Kecskes
Art Director, County Communications Office
gretchen.sizer@sdcounty.ca.gov
Arnold De Guzman
Multimedia Designer, County Communications Office
arnold.deguzman@sdcounty.ca.gov
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