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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

Creating an e-commerce site


In a production environment, when a user visits an ASP.NET application, like Kentico CMS, their browser sends a request to the website. The HTTP request is received by the production web server and is processed by Internet Information Services (IIS). IIS provides the coordination with the ASP.NET runtime to generate and return the content for the requested resource. IIS is built for use in production servers. Installing IIS in our development environment means additional installation steps and requires security updates. Additionally, IIS may not always be an option for the following reasons:

  • You are using the Kentico CMS WebProject with Windows XP Home Edition, which doesn't support IIS

  • You don't want to host a web server on your local computer for security reasons

  • Your company has a corporate policy that doesn't allow the installation of IIS

In order to alleviate this problem, the Visual Studio development environment includes an ASP.NET Development Server. Specifically...