The development of the new content-management-system (CMS) for the info-terminals was centrally conducted on the server of the terminal-control-system, which is responsible for the controlling and remote maintenance of all terminals.
The new surface layout of the info-terminals was cut and implemented as a HTML-skeleton: left-sided main navigation, info-area in the middle with main and sub-elements as well as a right-sided navigation area, which includes all e-services of the info-terminals in a clear and easy to use design.
In addition further basic functions, such as bilingualism (German/English), search and news ticker were included.
The user friendly CMS allows for easy duplication of an already designed basic page and a quick and easy adaptation for another terminal location. Another applicability is the differentiation between the preview version with the current adaptations and the published version on the live-system info-terminal.
For later click- and usability-statistics a respective code is included in the pages for heatmap-analysis.
The implementation of the first info-terminal „Hafeninsel“ directly in front of the main tourist-info in Bremerhaven additionally required a setup in the web-based terminal-control-system, which is used for the remote control and remote maintenance.
Besides the "new" location-independent start page link, the implementation also includes for example global filter settings for linking together permitted domains and depending on the location also additional individual filters for permitted internet pages.
The last step for implementing the start page contains an up date of the individual info-terminal PCs. Through the new application among others expansion features were necessary. These were installed and activated (e.g. current flash-player), in order to comply with the current display standards of multimedia-elements through the browser on the terminal computers.
At the moment we are working on the following pages of the bluetooth applications in the
e-services area. After an internal test phase these pages will be put online in approx. two weeks.