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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

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Imagine the situation where you needed to allow authors to work with <table> tags and to do so you set the Formatting property of the HtmlPlaceholderDefinition to FullFormatting.

The authors were happy. They could now apply almost all kinds of tags without any restrictions. Some chose to use orange fonts by using <font color=orange> tags instead of the black headings defined in the main stylesheet. Others merrily copied formatted text from Word documents into the HtmlPlaceholderControl. Someone even ventured a <marquee> tag.

The look and feel of each page strayed further and further from the predefined stylesheet. Editors and moderators got called for an explanation on how the dozens of unapproved styles and colors were finding their way into the pages.

The problem is that the standard HtmlPlaceholderDefinition/HtmlPlaceholder pair can't allow <table> tags but disable <font> and other tags that...