Category Archives: IBM Web Content Manager

Streamline Portal Maintenance with WCM Managed CSS

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Cody Burleson

This article provides a technique for managing a theme style sheet and its associated images in WCM. The technique allows you to make look-and-feel changes by simply editing a single WCM content item. It also allows you to attach all … Continue reading →

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Fast Access to WCM Authoring by URL

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Cody Burleson

Here’s a quick and simple tip that some WCM users may not be aware of. You can navigate to the WCM Authoring UI using the navigation provided in the portal, but you can also enter a URL or use a … Continue reading →

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Rendering Plugins Allow for the Creation of Custom Tags in WCM

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Cody Burleson

One of the new features that came with IBM Web Content Manager 7 is the rendering plugin. With rendering plugins you can define your own custom tags that authors can insert inline when creating content. For example, you could allow … Continue reading →

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Available Now: IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager v8 Beta

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Cody Burleson

The new IBM Customer Experience Suite (IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager v8) Beta is now available for download. The beta release is delivered as a VMware image, which will run on virtually any operating system that has … Continue reading →

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Video Preview: Easy-Peasy Publishing with the All New WCM Authoring Home Page

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Cody Burleson

The content authoring experience in IBM Web Content Manager (WCM) was dramatically improved in version seven and IBM is continuing with that momentum. WCM will soon sport ‘The Authoring Home Page’ – a simplified user interface for content authors who … Continue reading →

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Display Item Names instead of Titles in the WCM Authoring UI

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Cody Burleson

In IBM Web Content Manager (WCM), it is now possible to display the Name instead of the Title of content items in the authoring user interface.

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Configure WCM Versioning for Improved Performance

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Cody Burleson

By default, IBM Web Content Manager is set to create a new version for items when they are saved (i.e. authoring templates, content, presentation templates, site areas, taxonomy, workflow). This may not be desired, especially during early development when you’ll … Continue reading →

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Register now for “Creating an Exceptional Web Experience Using IBM WCM” (April 29th)

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Cody Burleson

I’ll soon be participating with my colleagues at Base22 on a series of lessons-learned webcasts that will advance the enterprise web experience using IBM software. Our first webcast will take place on April 29th at 1pm CDT titled Creating an … Continue reading →

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IBM Product Name Changes

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Cody Burleson

IBM has made a couple of product brand name changes recently that you should be aware of: IBM Lotus Connections is now IBM Connections. IBM Lotus Web Content Management is now IBM Web Content Manager.

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WCM History Cropper Module improves performance

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Cody Burleson

There’s now a module for WCM in WebSphere Portal 6 that allows you to delete history log entries from items. It’s called the History Cropper Module and running it periodically can help you improve document load and save performance. If … Continue reading →

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