Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Staff and skills in the cost of an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
The internal roles a public body needs to run a website or intranet on Exponential - editors, web team, site administrator, operations, security and data protection - the skills each needs, the courses that teach them…
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Support contracts in the cost of an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
The kinds of support available for Exponential (free community help, partner support, paid help from 7x, a supplier's own contract), what each promises as published, how to define the support you need, and how to…
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The structure of a CMS total cost of ownership model Updated Markdown page
How to build a total cost of ownership model for a website or intranet on Exponential - the time horizon, the phases, one-off and recurring costs, internal and external costs, risks and exit - so that bids with and…
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TCO worksheet template Updated Markdown page
A copy-and-fill worksheet for the total cost of ownership of a website or intranet on Exponential, with one-off, recurring, internal, risk and exit lines, an assumptions register and a comparison block for several bids…
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Training costs for an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
How to estimate the training part of a total cost of ownership - who needs which course, the documented course lengths, free course material under the GNU FDL, and the costs that remain (trainer time, staff time, lab…
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Upgrade and maintenance costs over the life of a site Updated Markdown page
What keeps an Exponential site current - security releases in the 6.0.x line, PHP and operating system updates, upgrades from older lines - which tools reduce the work (upgrade check, ezupdate, maintenance mode), what…
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A worked TCO example with labeled assumptions Updated Markdown page
A worked total cost of ownership calculation for an invented public body's website on Exponential, in neutral currency units, where every number is an example assumption - to show the arithmetic and the structure, never…
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Training in procurement Updated Markdown page
How a public body plans, buys, budgets and measures Exponential training for editors, administrators and its own trainers, built on the free trainer courses of this help.
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Accessible and inclusive training Updated Markdown page
How a public body makes Exponential training accessible to every member of staff - accessible course material, teaching with the accessible admin4 administration, languages and right-to-left, accommodations in class and…
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Budgeting training effort Updated Markdown page
How to estimate the training effort for an Exponential project in a public body from the published course lengths and your own head counts and day rates - a worksheet with formulas and no invented prices.
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Building an in-house training team Updated Markdown page
How a public body trains its own Exponential trainers with the Train the trainer course, builds and keeps a training lab, adapts the free course material and keeps it current, so training continues after the supplier's…
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Buying training from a partner Updated Markdown page
What a public body asks for when it buys Exponential training from a partner or supplier - course outlines, version, lab, accessibility, material rights, assessment - and what the partner program does and does not…
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Measuring training results Updated Markdown page
How a public body checks that Exponential training worked - written tests and practical tasks from the assessments course, feedback, and signs in the site itself such as fewer support requests and fewer content errors…
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Onboarding new staff to Exponential Updated Markdown page
The path a new editor or administrator in a public body follows in the first weeks - account, role, self-study pages, course, supervised first publication and sign-off - so that people who join after go-live are trained…
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Roles to courses Updated Markdown page
A matrix from the roles in a public body (editor, approver, translator, site administrator, system administrator, developer, designer, trainer, manager) to the Exponential trainer courses and modules each role needs…
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A training plan for a public body Updated Markdown page
How a public body plans Exponential training for the whole contract - who needs which course, in which order, at which moment of the project, and how to write that into the procurement - built on the free trainer…
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Records and archiving for public bodies Updated Markdown page
The records and archiving section of the Governments help - versions and content history, archiving old notices with folders, sections, object states and hiding, the trash, retention schedules, exporting content…
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Archiving old notices Updated Markdown page
For public bodies that publish many time-bound notices (consultations, tenders, announcements) - the ways to take them off the current site while keeping them, using Exponential's moving, sections, object states, hiding…
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Audit records as evidence Updated Markdown page
For public bodies that may need to prove who did what on their website - how to select, verify, export and hand over Exponential audit records (signed bundles, JSON lines with hashes), document the chain of custody, and…
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Form submissions as records Updated Markdown page
For public bodies whose web forms start cases (requests, complaints, applications) - how Exponential stores submissions, exporting them into a case or records system, removing them on schedule, and the audit records of…