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

Course: 985   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 3 Days
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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
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
You create and implement a CMS using Joomla and DotNetNuke. Exercises 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

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
Course Schedule
20 - 22 Aug, 2008
London
5 - 7 Nov, 2008
London
4 - 6 Feb, 2009
London

Course participants installing a CMS solution.

£ 1,395 - Standard Tuition
Savings Plans
£ 810 - 10-Day Training Pass
£ 995 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 800 - Short Course Vouchers
£ 1,255 - Alumni Gold Tuition

 
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