1. Maturing usage of the
Seamless CMS
Nasreen Pittas
Tim Swalling

2. Our Seamless journey
• The team and background
• Our Seamless developments
• Challenges along the way
• The future

3. New DENR website
1 February 2011
• DENR corporate site
• ParkSA
• Naracoorte
• Seal Bay
• Fire management
• Cleland Wildlife Park
• Botanic Gardens of Adelaide
• Adelaide Gaol
July 2012
• Marine Parks

4. Back then….
• Capabilities of the Seamless CMS
• Content was king
• Good metadata
Now….
• Efficiencies
• Content is still king
• Even better use of metadata

5. The internet team at DEWNR
Nasreen Pittas Susan Arthure
Manager, Operations Manager, Strategy
Tim Swalling
Bianca Turner
Web Development &
Content Coordinator
Content Coordinator
Web Project Officer Web Project Officer Web Project Officer

6. Developments
• Where is it?
• Image galleries
• Have Your Say
• ParkSA
– Mobile site
– Park closures / prescribed burns

7. ParkSA
• 100+ parks on the site
• Information stored in general content pages
• How to pare this down for mobile?
• Structured content!

8. ParkSA
An exercise in structured content
• Select the most relevant info for mobile
• Easier to search and filter
• Information is presented consistently
• Layout is controlled by template
• Fewer tables!
• Easier to update

9. ParkSA
How I learned to stop worrying and love Data
List Views
• A great way to filter content
• Automatically display alerts on park pages
• Add advanced functionality automatically

10. Developments - examples
Where is it?
www.environment.sa.gov.au/Conservation/Coastal_marine/Adelaide_Dolphin_Sanctuary
Image gallery
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/Find_a_Park/Browse_by_region/Yorke_Peninsula/
Innes_National_Park
Have your say
www.environment.sa.gov.au/haveyoursay/
Parks – data list views
www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/Find_a_Park/Browse_by_region/Adelaide_Hills/Belair_N
ational_Park
Parks - mobile
www.environment.sa.gov.au/mparks

11. Challenges
• departmental name changes
• authors mangling HTML
• balancing flexibility with ease of use
• set and forget attitude
• ownership for content
• technical support
• devolved authoring
• have your say area – just because you build it,
doesn’t mean people will find and use it.

12. The future
• review - content and top menu
• branding
• 8 new regional sites (responsive design)
• fire region classification
• where is it – interactive maps
• extending search functionality
• facebook integration into site
• CRM connection
• intranet

13. Questions?
Nasreen Pittas Tim Swalling
nasreen.pittas@sa.gov.au tim.swalling@sa.gov.au