ETH Web Content Management System

"Web Hosting Plus" - Next generation Web Content Management for ETH Zurich

As part of the ETH World program the IT services of ETH evaluated and customized in close collaboration with the IT organisations of the Departements a Web Content Management System to reduce the efforts for creation and maintaince of ETHs websites.

The system, based on OpenSource Software, is offered as a central service, free of costs. IT organisations of institutes and departements may also use the system on their own servers.

Highlights:

• Easy-to-use, browserbased interface
• Plattform-independend WYSIWYG editor
• no HTML/XML/CGI knowledge required
• no additional software on client-side
• connected to the campus-wide user management system
• connected to the central informations systems to generate lists of staff members, students, lectures on the fly
• role-based, time-driven publishing workflow
• easy integration with portals and other modern cms-es

Remark for ETH sitemanager who run their own website: to make yourwebsite compatible with the ETH Corporate Design you have to import the newest version of the ETH WCMS tempate. See: http://www.cms.ethz.ch/service/install_support

Links:

• Help for the ETH Layout
• www.cms.ethz.ch
• www.infrae.com
• www.zope.org
• kupu.oscom.org