Congratulations to our first class of Kentico CMS Certified Trainers!
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Thanks to everyone for their input to the January Kentico Newsletter. Make sure that you subscribe from the main page of the devnet site.
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Join us for a technica learning webinar
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Workflow is an important part of ensuring that content is included in the business process. Content approvers are responsible for ensuring that the added or edited documents are appropriate and meet the needs of the business before publishing to the live site. Kentico CMS 5 introduces the ability to compare document versions as part of the workflow process. This allows content approvers to review documents and see exactly what changes have made.
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1/22/2010 1:01:27 PM by
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Kentico CMS 5 enables drag and drop functionality directly
within the content tree. This provides an easy way to reorganize and manage
documents. With some additional keystrokes you can extend this functionality to
include copying and linking. In this post we will look at the additional
keyboard shortcuts for this feature.
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1/20/2010 11:44:28 AM by
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Thanks to everyone that attended our first online user group meeting today. Martin did a fantastic job on presenting his top five features for Version 5.
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Join us for a Kentico Webinar - CMS Today Series presented by Wakefly
The Kentico CMS Today webinar series focuses on industry and emerging trends/topics that face business and marketers. The series focus is to provide resources, training and discussion on practical and useful information.
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Join us for a Kentico Webinar - CMS Today Series presented by Wakefly
The Kentico CMS Today webinar series focuses on industry and emerging trends/topics that face business and marketers. The series focus is to provide resources, training and discussion on practical and useful information.
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The BizForms module enables the creation and publication of simple on-line forms with no development. The form is published on the Kentico site by inserting special macro expressions into the text of a page or using the BizForms web part. The captured data is stored in a separate database table and be viewed over the web, emailed, or exported to Excel.
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1/18/2010 4:54:51 PM by
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Kentico CMS comes contains a WYSIWYG editor based on the FCKeditor. While it is possible to integrate your own custom editor, what’s included is one of the best browser based editors available on the market. This editor is available in many different parts of the system from web parts to blogs. The default toolbar provides similar functionality to those in Microsoft Word with additional features designed for Kentico CMS.
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Join us for a Kentico Webinar - CMS Today Series
The Kentico CMS Today webinar series focuses on industry and emerging trends/topics that face business and marketers. The series focus is to provide resources, training and discussion on practical and useful information.
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1/14/2010 12:14:51 PM by
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Spend a lot of time searching through code? Trying to find the definition of a class or enumeration can be difficult. The Class View window is one handy tool that gives a quick overview of the object model of the current solution and allows fast navigation through namespaces, classes and methods. Using the Class View window in conjunction with the Code Definition window provides another tool that can help to reduce the amount of searching that needs to be done. If you double click on a method in the Class View window Visual Studio will open the appropriate source code file and scroll to the selected method. This is quite useful for larger projects like Kentico that contains multiple class definitions. In this post we will look at how this works.
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Workflow is an important part of including content in the business process. Enabling users to participate in the flow of information and ensuring that only approved information is published on your web site. Kentico CMS 5 provides a state based workflow engine that allows users to visually define their workflow and developers a platform to extend.
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1/8/2010 7:53:14 PM by
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Providing company information allows end users to quickly find address and support information and provides a face to the company on your e-commerce site. Kentico CMS 5.0 provides a built in set of pages that minimize the amount of time needed to create and maintain this information.
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1/8/2010 7:46:10 PM by
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Product Types are a way to organize and create new inventory items within Kentico CMS. Product types are simply document types that contain information about a specific product. Kentico CMS 5 provides a wizard that allows these to be easily created.
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1/8/2010 7:37:15 PM by
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Kentico CMS pages are rendered based on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). By default, each web site is based on a global CSS style sheet; that can be edited using either the built in WYSIWG editors or an external editor like Visual Studio. The main menu is an example of how a CSS style sheet can be used to control the look and feel of the site. The main menu used in the sample corporate site is displayed using the Drop-down menu web part which is based on the CMSMenu server control. This menu depends primarily on CSS styles.
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Datalist web parts are one way to display data within Kentico CMS. These web parts are designed to offer flexibility for easily changing the selected item view using sorting, paging and transformations. Sorting and paging provides a way to change the default display items using the “order by” option and built in names.
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Product categories are a logical way to organize your e-commerce products. This allows site visitors to quickly locate items they want to purchase. The Kentico CMS E-Commerce module allows products to appear in multiple product categories based on a link. When creating a link to an existing product document, a product SKU is not directly tied to the link. The link represents an image of the existing product document. This process allows a product to exist independently of the link. The benefit of the linking process is that it allows the same product with the same SKU to appear in multiple product categories.
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The featured product option in the Kentico CMS E-Commerce module allows site owners to quickly select and highlight products on the front page. This allows end users to quickly see products that may be on sale or featured. The selection is based on the Random Products web part that displays four randomly selected products with their public status selected to selected as ‘show as featured’.
Note: A video is available for adding new products is available
here.
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