Which of the following data is indexed?

Articles

Title

Abstract and/or teaser

Kicker (general intro topic)

Body

Small Picture (and caption)

Large Picture (and caption)

Posting date

Display date (ie. if it is to appear later)

Retraction date

Review date (with reminder app)

Archive date (move to archive section)

Priority (this would determine where it is placed on various pages)

Related links

Include on front page checkbox

Include in next email checkbox

Keywords

Author

Contact

Notes

enable user comments

Contacts and Authors

This data would represent contacts in the organisation who are responsible for the content or are appropriate to contact regarding the content. If a campaigner moved on, another person could take over that role and the contact details would be updated in all articles accordingly.

Role

Name

Address

Email

Phone

Fax

Position

Organisation

Categories

- How does the category structure work?

- Do Categories themselves have abstracts, text and pictures associated with them?

- Can articles be in multiple categories?

- Can you find articles through multiple navigational paths?

- Is it strictly hierarchical?

- Document type

1. Campaign Updates
2. Media Releases
3. Events

- Region
(Australian States)

Menu Structure

- How are the categories structured in the menu?

- Does it use breadcrumb navigation?

Page Customisation

How easy it is to customise pages?

Article pages

- Title

- Abstract

- Body

- Contact details

- Email friend link

- Printer friendly version

- Discuss this article (forum)

Email list management

- Does it integrate with a bulk mailer?

- Do people get mailed custom emails based on the categories they choose and the latest content in those categories?

- Does it deal with HTML emails, bounces etc

- Emailing articles to lists from admin section

Workflow

- Does it have various levels of permissions that allow some people to post articles and others to approve them?

- Are the administrators notified by email that something is in the queue?

Layout flexibility

- How easy are the templates to edit?

- How rigid is the layout of the system?

Search functionality

How good is the search engine?

Search engine friendly URLs? Need mod_rewrite?

Statistics

Does it have a statistics application?

Performance

- How fast is it?

- Does it need a huge server to run?

Admin System

- Does it have a WYSYWYG editor?

- Can images be inserted anywhere in the article?

- Media, reports module

Site Map Tool

- Does it have a way of creating site maps easily