In June of 2009, shortly after the ANR Statewide Conference, I received the go-ahead to build Site Builder 3. I had submitted a proposal in December of 2008, but resources were slim at the time and the project was put aside. The energy created by the conference was enough to bump the new Site Builder up in priority, allowing me them necessary time to build it.
Creating an entire content management system from scratch is no small task. It took about four months of fairly intensive work to get to a beta stage, and then another three or so months of fine-tuning to get it ready for division-wide release.
So how did it all begin? And, did we end up where we thought we'd be? First, there was the proposal from 2008 (below). We defined the term asset and indicated that our goal was to have anything on any page. Almost every point on the proposal was hit, and many new points were added as the project developed.
However, the real reason for posting this entry was to show you the PhotoShop mock-ups I made of the system to help guide the build. I just found these while cleaning out some old files on my computer. They're rough, to say the least, but it shows the basic concepts are in place.
Style aside, the initial mock-up wasn't flexible enough, so things were shifted and retooled. Mainly, the properties and content were completely split, allowing us to add many more features to each page.
Here are some more screen captures of the fledgling system.
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