Are you building or trying to manage a large, dynamic web site and finding yourself wasting resources on 'fire-drills' to deploy the latest content revision? Are you dependent on inefficient, manual processes and homegrown systems requiring expensive technical resources to manage your complex web content? Would you like the latest marketing, product or news information published to your web site today, instead of getting delayed in a technical bureaucracy?
As part of our to CMS 2002 Quickstart, Allin Consulting will introduce you to Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS) which provides a robust solution that enables non-technical users to manage the creation, approval and publishing of rich web content to your internet, extranet or intranet. Coupled with the new MCMS.RAPID extension to the core MCMS platform, template based site frameworks with user controls (breadcrumbs, menus, content, rss feeds), search integration, multi-language support and dynamic sitemaps can be configured by non-developers. The CMS 2002 Quickstart will result with your users gaining an understanding of how best to use CMS and a working prototype which will serve as a proof of concept. However, this prototype will not be production ready.
Objective: Provide detailed overview of CMS 2002, including administration, configuration,
development, “how to” on CMS site creation, and hands-on experience by way
of a working prototype/proof of concept
Cost: Contact your Allin Account Manager today for more information
Deliverables: Training and working prototype/proof of concept (not production ready)
Outline: This workshop is designed to last 5 days; QuickStart will involve the following:
Day 1 - CMS 2002 Overview
- Overview
- Introduction to template-based development
- Installing CMS
- CMS objects
- Repository Structure
- How web sites work with CMS
- CMS 2002 Clients
- CMS Site Manager and administration
- CMS Web Author
- Creating pages in the CMS
- Using the Web Author
- Using the Authoring Connector
- Understanding CMS 2002 Workflow
- Overview of publishing states
- Roles and responsibilities
- Actions and reactions
Day 2 – Administration, Configuration and Migration
- MCMS server administration
- Server Configuration Application (SCA)
- Database Configuration Application (DCA)
- Site Manager
- CMS reports
- Site Deployment
- Introduction to Site Deployment Manager
- Creating and consuming SDO files
- Exploring the COM interface for scripted deployment
- Security
- MCMS roles
- Rights and responsibilities
- NTFS and Template files
- Security planning for development , staging and production
- Using forms-based authentication
- Using .NET forms based authentication
- Using alternate authentication schemes
- Content migration strategies
- Strategies for integrating external systems
Day 3 – Introduction to CMS Development
- Review of VS.NET integration with CMS
- Template explorer
- Project and object types
- Source control with VSS
- Team development strategies
- Site Manager
- Setting up a channel structure
- Creating galleries
- Templates
- Template Gallery Items (TGIs)
- Custom Properties
- Placeholder Definitions
- Template Files
- Properties of Templates
- Standard CMS Server Controls
- Placeholders
- Edit Console
- Task based publishing with the Word connector
Day 4 – Understanding how to create CMS-based Sites
- Planning a CMS Site
- Information architecture
- Channel structure
- Galleries
- Templates
- Creating a site framework
- Analyzing your site
- Determining what your templates are
- Componentizing your HTML
- Creating common controls
- Overview of the PAPI
- Major namespaces
- Key classes
- Creating Controls
- Planning multilingual sites with CMS
- Search strategies
Day 5 – Developing a Site on CMS
- Create a site from scratch using CMS 2002
- Create templates from an HTML framework
- Create controls for template elements
- Create navigation
- Contribute content
