Official (legal) name: CMS Consultants, Inc.
Commonly known as: CMS Consultants or CMS Consultants (note space)
Tagline: The international content management community of practice
CONTENT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS - subtext in the logo
cmpros (run together in lower case) - used in mailing list names, cmpros@lists.cmprofessionals.org and cmpros-org@lists.cmprofessionals.org
CM Profiles CMS Consultants name for member profiles
CMS Consultants Spring 2006 Summit - Spring 2006 Summit , Spring Summit.
Note: The occasional use of CMPros (run together) and CM Pro (or CMPro) singular should not cause a problem. Many people refer to us with these variants. We need Google searches to find us under these names, so we will add them to metadata keywords for expanded search queries. Note: Metadata should also include these variants to ensure successful searches.
Note the American style usage of CMS Consultants as a collective singular noun. Thus CMS Consultants "is and does", not CMS Consultants "are and do."
The graphic standard for the CMS Consultants website is driven by style sheets for consistency in colors, fonts, and icons. The style sheets are discussed in the Cascading Style Sheets section.
Our main font is arial,helvetica,sans-serif. Our logo font is URW Grotesk. CMS Consultants is Regular Narrow. CONTENT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS is Medium Narrow. Both have some letters green, some blue.
Fonts are set using css selectors specific to function in the page. Menu fonts are specified with selectors menu ul li. The text font is arial,helvetica,sans-serif. The logo font is discussed in the logo section.
Search/Login bar Mid green = #71C04B (of )
Sections links - About CMS Consultants, etc. Medium blue = #307BB6
Logo colors are:
Green #73B42B
RGB: 115 / 180 / 43
PMS Uncoated: 376 U / Coated: 377 U
Blue #247DB3
RGB: 36 / 125 / 179
PMS Uncoated: 300 U
/ Coated: 2935 U
The CMS Consultants logo uses URW Grotesk in the colors specified below.
CMS Consultants - URW Grotesk Regular Narrow, with CM in green and Pros in blue.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS - URW Grotesk Medium Narrow, with CONTENT MANAGEMENT in green and PROFESSIONALS in blue.
The following guidelines establish consistent and appropriate use of the logo. Logos with transparent backgrounds are available anti-aliased against white and black backgrounds.
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Encapsulated Postscript files with vector versions of the logo are online at http://www.cmsconsultants.org/images/Logo_eps.zip
In this zip file you will find the CMS Consultants logo, a smaller variant, a member logo, and a greyscale variant of the CMS Consultants logo.
When using the logo on your site, add the accompanying HTML code to create a link to the CMS Consultants website:
<a href="http://www.cmsconsultants.org"><img src="http://www.cmsconsultants.org/images/smaller.gif" title="Content Management Professionals" border="0"></a>
If your site has a dark background, change the name of the image source to 'smallerblack.gif'.
The styles used in navigation differ with the type of navigation. For navigation functionality, see the discussion of navigation design.
In the original website, templates had names with initial lower case and then medial caps, e.g., howToJoin.html.
The content element was then named howToJoinContent.html. This naming convention still applies in parts of the resources, events, education, and organization sections.
The new naming convention uses the folder as the fundamental reference. This allows other extensions to be appended in the future. Thus we have:
Here's the folder and file structure for the new page "How Money Spent" located at /membership/how_money_spent/
Each page on the website is built with a template file (index.html), which contains the <html><head><title> preamble, an include file for the banner area with global top navigation (css links are here), an include file of menu items for the local left navigation, an include for the content element (content.html), an include for the footer navigation, and the closing </body></html> structure.
Steps to create a new page template and content element
Our website has a number of different style sheets corresponding to the site architecture and the back-end intranet. They are currently located in different folders as follows:
We need a thorough review and consolidation of these stylesheets to make it easier to locate important rule sets and to make the site more consistent.
and a page turning image 
Volunteers wanted!
CMS Consultants is looking for volunteers.
To inquire about volunteer opportunities, contact the volunteer co-ordinator.
