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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

ImagePlaceholders


It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. It is common to add to a page an accompanying picture of its subject, which could take the form of a picture of a product, employees, a place or almost anything you can think of. Usually, the web designer would designate a place on the page for the image to be displayed. For example, a news article may display a picture of the story's subject next to its abstract.

You could use an HtmlPlaceholder to store the image. However, one major advantage of using an ImagePlaceholder is that as a developer, you get to control the size of the image. Images uploaded by authors would be automatically resized to fit the width and height specified.

You also ensure that authors do not mix text together with the image, thus making it easier to extract the image later for use on other pages.

The ImagePlaceholder is similar to the AttachmentPlaceholder with one major exception— it holds a link to an image instead of a file. And like...