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Building Fast and Flexible Web Sites with CMS: Hands-On

 
Course: 985   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Design and implement Content Management System (CMS) solutions
  • Install and configure a CMS site foundation
  • Create a consistent look and layout with skins, templates and menu builders
  • Delegate content creation and editing of Web pages to author and editor roles
  • Publish informational content using database-driven plug-in modules
  • Support collaborative online communities

Course Benefits

Organisations' Web sites have become the repository for information and data from diverse sources, making the use of traditional Web design tools to maintain those sites no longer time or cost efficient. CMS provides a solution to professionally edit content and implement sophisticated features, without HTML and programming skills. In this course, you acquire the practical knowledge and skills to successfully implement a CMS solution within your organisation.

Who Should Attend

This course is valuable for those involved in the evaluation, planning, designing or implementation of a CMS-driven Web site, including system administrators, managers, Web developers and others.

Hands-On Training

Exercises, done in Joomia and DotNetNuke, include:
  • Configuring and installing the CMS site foundation
  • Uploading the site template and styles
  • Populating the site menus, texts and images
  • Creating users, authors and editors
  • Assembling information pages with announcements, calendars and FAQs
  • Adding help desk forms
  • Connecting news feeds and blogs
  • Implementing document sharing and discussion groups
  • Embedding rotating ads and selling products
  • Offering a photo gallery

Related Courses

  • 519 Introduction to PHP for Web Development
  • 512 Developing ASP.NET Web Applications
  • 522 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for Web Pages
  • 221 Writing for the Web
  • 538 SharePoint Technologies Comprehensive Introduction
  • 131 SQL Server 2005 Comprehensive Introduction

   Building Fast and Flexible Web Sites with CMS

Upcoming Dates

5 - 7 Nov, 2008
London

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.co.uk
 
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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
TRAINING YOU CAN TRUST
 
 

Building Fast and Flexible Web Sites with CMS: Hands-On

 
Course: 985   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

Introduction to Content Management Systems (CMS)

The CMS revolution

  • Simplifying Web publishing
  • The CMS product spectrum
  • Advantages and disadvantages over traditional Web development

Creating the content-managed site

  • Deploying feature-rich sites
  • Empowering Web authors to edit content

Configuring Your New CMS

Architecting the CMS

  • Developing a strategic plan
  • Determining OS and platform requirements
  • Apache
  • IIS
  • MySQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • PHP
  • ASP.NET

Installing the site foundation

  • Uploading the CMS software
  • Setting up the database
  • Executing the installation scripts

Populating Site Content

Designing the look and feel

  • Producing a consistent style
  • Choosing existing templates
  • Building custom layouts

Implementing site navigation

  • Analysing the menu hierarchy
  • Constructing and placing the menus

Creating the content pages

  • Positioning text containers
  • Inserting images, links and media

Enabling CMS Security

Assigning users to roles

  • Allocating team member tasks
  • Controlling editor access to page content

User registration and membership

  • Configuring the login interface
  • Establishing the user profile
  • Determining menu and content visibility

Implementing Informational Modules

Finding pages through keywords

  • Incorporating site search features
  • Tuning search results

Disseminating timely information with plug-in modules

  • Announcements
  • Event calendars
  • Contact lists
  • Scheduling

Establishing Community Dialogue

Soliciting customer input

  • Gathering feedback with inquiry forms
  • Selling online with a shopping cart
  • Configuring e-mail forwarding
  • Surveying opinions and rating content

Connecting syndicated applications

  • Harnessing external news sources through Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
  • Hosting and publishing blogs

Sharing documents and ideas

  • Collaborating with discussion groups and forums
  • Cataloguing shared files
  • Presenting images with galleries and slide shows

The Evolution of Your CMS

Commercialising the site

  • Configuring customer databases
  • Banner advertising
  • Selling products with a shopping cart facility

Building multilingual sites

  • Adopting CMS facilities for switching languages
  • Obtaining language packs

Extending your CMS

  • Installing third-party modules
  • Integrating with enterprise-authentication schemes
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • Anticipating the future of CMS
 
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Building Fast and Flexible Web Sites with CMS: Hands-On Tuition

 
Course: 985   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course 985 Tuition

£ 1,395Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
£ 73510-Day Training Pass
£ 915Flex-Training Pass
£ 1,46010-Training Vouchers
£ 1,5605-Training Vouchers
£ 1,255Alumni Gold Tuition

Your Course Fee Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Flex-Training Pass
  • 3 Courses for £2 750
  • As little as £915
  • Savings as much as 50%
  • 3 courses in 24 months
10-Day Training Pass
  • Save as much as £770 per course
  • Any combination of courses
  • Only £2,450
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as £535 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as £1,460 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you will receive a personalised Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as £200 on each course you take in the following 24 months. Take just one course every two years, and you will be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year. You save 10%.
* Exact savings may vary depending on courses selected.

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Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course - and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the fee.

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