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ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development

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ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development

Overview of this book

ASP.NET 3.5 is equipped with a built-in security system, standard design templates, and easy configurations for database connections, which make it the ideal language for building a content management system. With the strong community support for the ASP.NET platform, you can be assured that what you write today will be around and supported for years to come. You can imagine how easy it is to get lost in the myriad features especially if you are a newcomer. This book shows you how to make use of ASP.NET's features and create a functional Content Management System quickly and conveniently. You will learn how to build your site and see the different ways in which you can customize your code to fit your needs. With this book in hand, you can easily set up users and groups, create valuable content for your users, and manage the layout of your site efficiently. All you need is a basic understanding of coding and a desire to learn, and this book will take care of the rest. This book will teach you to get your site up and running quickly, and maintain its content even if you have little or no web design or programming experience. It will give you all the knowledge you need to use the tools as well as the code required to make yourself a strong developer far beyond your site. It begins with setting up your programming environment and coding a Content Management System. You will learn how to install and configure a database and connect it to your CMS. You will be able to create content and manage the layout of your site, and also make it available beyond the browser. At the end of this book, you will have designed and built a CMS that allows you to administer an Articles section, Images and Files sections, as well as a full set of Administrator tools for your site.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
ASP.NET 3.5 Content Management System Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Application specifications


The basic idea of this module is for a user with no programming knowledge to be able to add, edit, and delete content from our Content Management System. We also want to work through a publication process, allowing for users with different levels of access to control the stages of content production. If you are used to working alone in publishing a web site, or even with a few others, the process we'll use may be foreign to you. But you'll see that the process we develop here can be expanded to many users, or simplified to a single content publisher, without rewriting the application.

The Article publication process

For the publication process, think about a newspaper or magazine. After all, these printed materials are simply Content Management Systems that are extremely inflexible once the content has been published, though before publication, content management is a key to their business success. Publishing the wrong or inaccurate content can cause them to lose...