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If you’re using this guide, it means your department or agency is eligible for an independent website based on the new online content governance model. You should understand your user needs and have a clear content strategy.

Your site must also be created. See Assets you must provide to create a new site (for independent sites and semis on SDP) for design assets SDP needs to do this.

If your department or agency isn’t eligible for an independent website, use the guide: How to create a site section.

You must have Site Admin permissions to configure a new website.

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Roles and responsibilities

Role

Team

Responsibilities

Site admin

Note: most independent sites have a separate back end. If you’re part of content.vic.gov.au, you won’t need to create the site taxonomy and vocabularies. Visit: How to create a site section.

Site owner

CMS approver

Site owner

  • Complete approver training.

  • Create homepage and contact us page (see below).

  • Review department or agency content to ensure it’s accurate and adheres to the content strategy or communications strategy.

  • Map and add redirects (see below).

  • Link contact us from was this page helpful pages (see below).

Content creator

Site owner

Content approver

Department responsible for supporting the website.

CMS access and training

SDP

  • Ensure editors, approvers and site admins have access and support to successfully complete CMS training.

UX/graphic designer

External vendor

  • Provide digital assets, including the site’s logo, top and bottom graphics and any other assets required.

Site admin technical support

SDP

  • Create production, develop and master environments.

  • Add analytics and governance codes to the site.

  • Map and implement domain-level redirects.

  • Manage website go-live.

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Accessing the Vic Gov CMS

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A develop and master site are created for use by developers. The content on these sites is over-ridden with a new version regularly for testing purposes and cannot be automatically moved to your production site. If you need to use these sites, raise a support request.

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Setting up new CMS users

Use our new CMS user guide to set up access for editors in your team.

We encourage editors to complete our CMS training to learn about accessibility requirements and how to add hyperlinks and heading styles.

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Setting up the site taxonomy and vocabularies

You’ll need to configure set up the site taxonomy and vocabularies for your website. This helps content creators and users easily navigate the site and understand its purpose.

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Creating a website homepage

Start by creating a homepage and contact us page.

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For steps on creating these pages, use the landing page guide.

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Contact us page

A contact us page needs to exist so users can contact your team when a requested page is not available.

For steps on creating these pages, use the landing page guide.

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Redirects

Updating the contact us link on the website’s error page (404 page not found)

The default 404 page not found page for each site contains a link to the site’s contact page. For example:

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Create a redirect from connect-with-us to the contact page (e.g. sitename.vic.gov.au/contact-us).

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Migrated sites: mapping redirects

If migrating a site from another CMS to the SDP CMS, redirects must be mapped before go-live.

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Use the URL redirects to add each redirect to the CMS. This should be completed after go-live.

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Linking to Contact us from Was this page helpful?

It’s a Victorian government standard to gather visitor feedback on all of our sites.

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By default, the link is sitename.vic.gov.au/connect-with-us. You will need to set up a redirect to your site’s contact page if you’re using a different URL (similar to the 404 example above).

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Completing a website QA before and after go-live

Use the website QA guide to understand the minimum checks to complete before and after go-live.

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