davidc@codify.com
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9/2/2007 10:34:18 AM
Rebranding default corporate site
Hi all,
I am currently evaluating Kentico for our web site. We are looking for something out of the box that we can use to manage a reasonable about of web content without needing to fire up Visual Studio.
The documentation/marketing information for the site refers to the product as being able be completely run via the web based UI however I am having trouble understanding how I am supposed to do this via the administration web site.
I have created a new site based on the Corporate Site template and that all worked fine. I can add pages, create content and so forth without an issue. However, when I go to edit the master page via the web based UI I note that it just contains control references. Also I see that the company logo for the default site just reside under the filesystem as ASP.Net themes. I would rather customise all of that without turning the site into a compiled project.
Is it possible to customise this site (the look and feel, artwork etc) simply using just the Web UI or am I supposed to use VS.NET? I would rather not do that because the reason we want to buy a product is to make it simple to manage the site as we're always too busy working on customer projects.
Also, why does this product use home.aspx as the default page instead of default.aspx? I created a default.aspx document I keep getting redirected to home.aspx whenever I hit the root of the site.
Any ideas? We really want to prove to ourselves that we can do all of the content management activities in the web UI before we commit to spending $$ so I would appreciate any ideas/feedback ... maybe I am missing the point a bit.
Thanks in advance!
Regards, David.
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