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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 Connected Postings


With the templates built, we can proceed to create postings.

Creating the Original Posting

The first posting that we will create is meant only for members. Imagine that you have planted a new herb garden and have pictures to upload to the Gardens section of the TropicalGreen website. Let's create a posting about the herb garden.

  1. Navigate to http://localhost/tropicalgreen/gardens.

  2. You should be prompted to log on. Log on with the credentials of Author1.

  3. Click Switch To Edit Site.

  4. Select the Create New Page option.

  5. Choose Gardens template gallery to create the posting based on Members template.

  6. In the About placeholder control, add some text: You start the day with the fresh smell of herbs growing in your garden.

  7. In the VisitingInformation placeholder control, add some text: Visit my garden at 10 Tropical Green Open on Saturdays and Sundays from 3pm - 5pm You can contact me at

  8. Click Save New Page. Name the page HerbGarden and set its Display Name to Herb Garden ...