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Kentico CMS 5 Website Development: Beginner's Guide

By : Thom Robbins
Book Image

Kentico CMS 5 Website Development: Beginner's Guide

By: Thom Robbins

Overview of this book

<p>There are over 1.7 billion internet users today. What are you doing to manage your web presence and reach your potential audience? A successful website guarantees serious business benefits and substantial cost savings for your company. Kentico CMS provides a flexible, all-in-one solution for web developers to create sites that ensure increase in brand loyalty, customer support savings and better brand management. However, making full use of Kentico CMS for attracting potential audience requires some guidance.<br /><br />This practical guide gives you a head start using Kentico CMS to create professional and engaging web sites. It helps you get started quickly and covers how to build dynamic, scalable, and feature-rich websites that will keep your site visitors engaged and coming back. It moves beyond the basics to take advantage of the most powerful features to create highly interactive websites. Practical examples and tutorials show how to leverage the thirty-four different modules to create everything from a basic website to the most advanced and interactive e-commerce and social media sites. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials. This book is for you if you want to get the most out of any Kentico CMS installation!</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build a dynamic, discoverable, and scalable website.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Kentico CMS 5 Website Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action—creating a poll


The Polls module provides a way to gather real-time input from site users. Polls are designed as a separate document type that once created can be displayed anywhere on the site. In this exercise, we will add a poll to collect visitors' favorite cell phones and then place it on our Products page using a web part. Creating a poll is a two step process. The first step is to create the poll and the second step is to add it to the page.

  1. 1. Log in to CMS Desk and select the Tools tab, Polls, and then select New poll, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. In the New poll screen, enter the following information, and then select OK.

    Field

    Value

    Display name

    Cell phone favorite

    Code name

    CellPhoneFavorite

    Title

    Cell Phone Favorite

    Question

    What is your favorite cell phone?

  3. 3. Within the General tab, update the following information and select OK.

    Field

    Value

    Message after vote

    Thank you for your feedback.

  4. 4. Select the Answers tab and select New answer...