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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

Overview of this book

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Once your website is up and running, your content contributors can add and edit content on their own, without the need to work with developers or the IT department. First time developers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 face a relatively steep learning curve. Not only are they expected to be conversant in the Microsoft .NET Framework, they are also required to be familiar with the concepts of MCMS 2002. Many beginners to MCMS start out by looking at the example site that ships with the product; tweaking it, dissecting it and turning it inside out using the obscure code comments as markers. However, when it comes to starting their own website from scratch, many are baffled ? where do they begin? This book exists to answer that question; teaching the essential concepts of MCMS 2002 in a clear, straightforward and practical manner. Containing answers to some of the most asked questions in developer newsgroups, this book is a treasure trove of tricks and tips for solving the problems faced by MCMS developers. This is a unique resource focused exclusively on the needs of developers using MCMS. It doesn?t waste time and pages on user or administrator level information that is well covered in other documentation. It?s a distillation of practical experience that developers need to get results, fast. The authors carefully structured example project complements and extends the knowledge gained from an initial look at the examples that ship with MCMS.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Creating a New Plant Posting


Now that you have seen how to add content to an existing posting, let's pull it all together and make a few more postings in the PlantCatalog channel.

  1. First, click on Switch To Edit Site to bring the Web Author Console back into view.

  2. Choose Create New Page. This brings up the list of template galleries.

  3. Choose the PlantCatalog template gallery. This will bring up the Select Template view of the Template Gallery explorer.

  1. Choose the Plant template by clicking on the Select icon .

You will now have an empty plant posting! Fill in each placeholder with the following content:

Property

Values

Description

The banana needs no introduction. Its sweet yellow fruit is often pictured in the hands of a hungry monkey.

Plant Picture

Leave this empty for now.

Research Paper

Any file on your computer, or the banana.doc file from the companion website

Research Paper Display Text

Banana tree in depth

Since this posting was created from scratch, the Web Author Console will...