Online forms are one of the best ways to interact and collect information from customers. With Kentico 8 the building of forms is done using a visual designer and then published to your site. In this video we look at how you can build and deploy online forms.

Products are the most important objects in your on-line store. They feature the actual products and services that you offer and sell to customers. Your customers can purchase products separately or with options, which may include product accessories and attributes. In Kentico, products exist as product objects associated with product type documents. This means that if you want to present a product on your website, you need to display a product type document with a product object assigned to this document. In this video we look at how you can add products with Kentico 8.

Editing page content is one of the most important aspects of maintaining a site. In this tutorial we look at several ways this can be done with Kentico 8. First, we look at Live Site editing that allows page editors to make changes directly on public facing pages. Then we look at editing content through the Administration interface.

The E-commerce sample site of Kentico 8 contains an amazing amount of features. You aren’t able to access any of these great features unless you get it installed! In this video we look at at how you can install it on your local machine.

Now that you have downloaded Kentico 8 it’s time to install. In this video we look at the requirements and the installation process for Kentico 8.

Now that you have downloaded Kentico CMS 6 it’s time to install. In this video we look at the requirements and the installation process for Kentico CMS 6.

Kentico CMS Includes many features and modules that utilize e-mail messages as part of their functionality. This includes automatic notifications, confirmation messages, newsletters and many more. To allow the application to send out e-mails you need to register and configure an SMTP Server. In this video we look at how this can be done for your development environment.

As part of your business process, you may want to provide users that don’t have access to CMS Desk an opportunity to view a page prior to publishing.  This is where preview URL’s are used. They enable the sharing the of an unpublished page version outside of the Kentico CMS user interface. For security, preview URL’s are provided as a dedicated URL within the context of a specific user. For example, Preview links are included in workflow notification e-mail templates. In this case, the preview is displayed in the context of the user who performed the workflow action. In this video we look at how to use Preview URLs.

Maintenance is a normal part of your site. With Kentico CMS Off-line mode provides a one click site maintenance option to take your site offline to site visitors. However, both CMS Desk and Site Manager are available for content editors and administrators. This enables Content Editors to continue to update and manage site content. Site administrators have a choice of showing a customized message to site visitors or redirect them to a custom URL. In this video we will look at how this is done using Off-line mode.

Data source web parts are a great way to build data centric pages with Kentico CMS. The data source web parts allow page designers to build a set of interconnected web parts that can retrieve, display and filter data. They enable the separation of web parts without any changes in functionality. This allows a higher degree of design flexibility for CMS pages. In this video we look at how to use the Data Source web parts to retrieve, display, filter and page product data.