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davidc@codify.com - 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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kentico_jurajo - 9/3/2007 9:49:09 AM
   
RE:Rebranding default corporate site
Hi David,
Thank you for your message.

You can manage the master page template within the range of the tab content in CMS Desk - Master page tab and/or in Site manager -> Development -> Page templates you can create your own template and by checking the option "Show as master template" it will appear as the master page template.

If you want to use other controls than the default, you can write them in any text editor - but there will be no code validation as in Visual studio. You also need to register them in Site Manager, as described in documentation. If you are using the portal engine templates there you will need to use visual studio only time to time - if you want to create some special custom options, parts etc.

More information you can find in our developers guide and tutorial for portal engine templates available at www.kentico.com/DevNet/Documentation.aspx

In the Home page properties in CMS Desk you can change the Document URL path (the check box "Use custom URL path" must be true). So, if you want to use default.aspx instead of home.aspx, just add to this field this "/default".

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shailendra.dubey-gatesix - 3/31/2009 8:05:37 AM
   
RE:Rebranding default corporate site
Hi Webmaster

Can i redirect http://www.xyz.com/home.aspx to http://www.xyz.com

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kentico_jurajo - 4/1/2009 7:03:03 AM
   
RE:Rebranding default corporate site
Hi,

By default, when typing www.domain.com to the browser, you are redirected to www.domain.com/default.aspx.
You can set which page should be displayed as the "default" one in Site Manger -> Settings -> Web site -> Default alias path and enter value e.g. /home

You you want to remove the default.aspx from the URL, you need to handle this in the Global.asax.cs file.

Best Regards,
Juraj Ondrus