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1 Kentico CMS for ASP.NET Flexible Web Content Management System for All Your Needs

2 Content Management System - I  What is a content management system?  Software that allows you to edit text and images on your web site without calling your web designer.  Why should I use a content management system?  You can edit your web site anywhere, anytime, through your web browser.

3 Content Management System - II  I can use Frontpage to create HTML pages, why should I use a content management system?  With a content management system, you can create interactive web sites and communicate with your visitors through on-line forms, newsletters, blogs, forums or polls.  You can add a shopping cart and sell your products on-line.

4 Content Management System - III  Do I need a web designer if I use a content management system?  The web designer needs to prepare the design and structure of your web site and create page templates. Then you can easily create new pages by yourself using the templates.

5 Kentico CMS Overview I

6 Kentico CMS Overview II  Out-of-the-box solution for:  Corporate web sites  On-line stores  Community sites  Intranets  Extranets  Built on the Microsoft.NET platform

7 Kentico CMS Overview III  Main benefits  All-in-one solution for your Web site  Easy-to-use  Browser-based editing  High value for a reasonable price  SEO friendly  Manage multiple sites from one place

8 Editing Features - I  Easily edit web site content  Browser-based user interface  You can publish:  Pages  Articles  News  Products  Blogs  Office locations  Job openings  Knowledge base ... and any number of custom content types

9 Editing

10 Editing Features - II  WYSIWYG editor similar to Microsoft Word  Workflow, versioning and rollback  Multiple languages  Multiple sites  Upload files, images, video, music  Built-in browser-based image editor for resizing, cropping, rotating and converting images  Taxonomy (tree hierarchy, categories, tags)

11 Editing – WYSIWYG editor

12 Web Site Features  Flexible navigation and web site structure  End users can create and edit new pages without developers  New pages are automatically displayed in the navigation  Full-text search in both text and uploaded documents

13 Full-text Search  Full-text search helps visitors to find information on your web site  The search can be limited to particular site section, content type and fields  The search results are ordered by relevancy (rank) and they can show a preview of the documents.

14 Full-text Search

15 Modules  BizForms (on-line forms)  Newsletters  Image gallery  E-commerce (on-line store)  Forums  Blogs  Polls  Event Calendar  Booking system  Private Messaging  Geo Mapping (Google Maps integration)  Web Analytics  User Contributions (Wiki)  Reporting  Content and Object Staging  Web Farm Support  Message Boards  Groups  Friends  Message Boards  Content Rating  Taxonomy (Tags and Categories)  Media Library

16 BizForms (On-line Forms)  Create on-line forms without programming  Publish forms on the web site  Capture data from web site visitors  Review data and export them to Excel  Send data to specified e-mail  Flexible form options:  custom layout  wide variety of fields (textbox, checkbox, drop-down list,...)  custom field types

17 BizForms (On-line Forms)

18 Newsletters  You can manage multiple e-mail newsletters  Subscribers subscribe to one or more newsletters (mailing list)  You can author new newsletter issues based on templates created by web designer  Personalization – Dear John,...  Scheduling – send newsletter on Tuesday morning  The subscribers can subscribe on the web and unsubscribe using the link in the newsletter e-mail  Automatic newsletters – send out specified page to subscribers on a regular basis.

19 Newsletters – Editing

20 Newsletters – E-mail

21 Image Gallery  You can quickly publish an on-line gallery of images  The thumbnails are generated automatically, you do not need to resize them manually  Bulk import of images  You can rename the images and add descriptions

22 Image Gallery

23 E-commerce - I  Sell products on-line  Shopping cart and checkout process  Custom product fields  Configurable shipping options  Configurable payment methods  Configurable taxes for every country/state  Discount coupons  Discount levels for partners  Volume discounts  Multiple currencies  Wishlist  Inventory status  Reports  Support for integration with existing systems  Product options/product configuration  Customer credit (e.g. customer loyalty points)

24 E-commerce - II  Built-in gateways for credit card payments:  PayPal  Authorize.NET  You can also customize the behavior using custom providers like:  Custom product provider that allows you to use your existing product database  Custom shipping calculator  Custom tax calculator  Custom invoice generator  and others.

25 E-commerce - Products

26 E-commerce - Cart

27 E-commerce – Orders

28 Taxonomy  3 ways how to categorize and organize content:  Tree hierarchy of repository with document links that enable placing single document at multiple places (categories)  Tagging and tag clouds  Categories (additional system of categories)

29 Taxonomy

30 Event Calendar  Display events, news, articles or any other content in a calendar format  Optionally combine with event registration in the Booking system module.

31 Event Calendar

32 Booking System  Manage bookings for on-line or off-line events, such as community meetings or webinars  Limit the capacity of the event  Manage the registered attendees  Send e-mails with event updates to all attendees  Export event information to Outlook

33 Booking System

34 Geo Mapping  Display content on the map – e.g.:  office locations  stores  partners  real estates  points of interest in the city  Uses Google Maps

35 Geo Mapping

36 User Contributions (Wiki)  Enable visitors to create content on your web site without access the administration interface  Typical scenarios:  Community sites – members share knowledge  Partner directory – partners manage their profiles  Local business directory – business owners manage the profiles of their companies  Flexible security model:  Any visitor  Only site members  Only document owners  Only users with appropriate permissions

37 User Contributions (Wiki)

38 Web Analytics  Track visitors, on-line campaigns and conversions:  Visits  Page views  Most visited pages  Referring web sites  File downloads  Countries  Campaigns  Conversions (orders, registrations, newsletter subscriptions, etc.)

39 Web analytics

40 Reporting  Create reports from data stored in the Kentico CMS database  Examples:  Created/modified documents  Site member reports  Sales  Customizable layout of the reports  You can use:  bar chart  pie chart  table  value  Create custom filters  Print or save reports

41 Reporting

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43 Content and Object Staging  Synchronize development, testing and live web sites  Create and test content, design and functionality on the staging (development/QA) server and then publish it on the live server over a secured web service  With staging, the document life cycle looks like this: 1.Document is created 2.Document is approved in the workflow process 3.Document is published on the staging server 4.Review and approval by site manager -> synchronization 5.Document is published on the live server

44 Content and Object Staging

45 Security  Granular security model:  Users  Roles  Module permissions  Content permissions – all content/site section/single document  Secured site areas for site members  Personalized content (e.g. for “clients”, “silver partners” and “gold partners”)  SSL (HTTPS) can be configured for chosen site sections or pages  Secured against SQL injection attacks and cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (XSRF)

46 Security

47 Performance  Kentico CMS can be used for web sites with large number of visitors and large number of documents – e.g.:  www.gibson.com  www.ireland.ie  www.medibank.com.au  www.yachtbooker.com  Flexible caching options:  single web part caching  CMS content caching  full page caching  image caching  Support for web farms

48 Development  Browser-based development without programming (for web designers)  You can also create ASPX page templates in Visual Studio 2005/2008 with your own code  Support for.NET 2.0 and 3.5  Easily extensible with your own:  user controls (ASCX)  web parts (ASCX)  server controls  modules  event handlers  providers  Easily integrate data from external systems

49 Portal Engine  Full control over page layout, design and HTML code  Fully browser-based development, very easy to use without deep.NET knowledge  Easily extensible with your own user controls (ASCX) and web parts developed in Visual Studio 2005/2008 (C# or VB.NET)  200 built-in web parts  Web parts are also user controls (ASCX), but with standardized interface  Master page concept allows you to share header, main menu and footer for all pages

50 Portal Engine

51 ASPX Page Templates  Standard ASP.NET (.ASPX) pages  Editable in Visual Studio 2005/2008  You can add any custom code and controls to the page template  Support for ASP.NET master pages (.master)  Add any custom controls and code in C# or VB.NET

52 ASPX Page Templates

53 Social Networking Features I  Kentico CMS provides a complete and flexible framework for social networks and on-line communities  Why on-line communities?  Engage customers and increase their loyalty  Start more personal and open communication  Present and test new ideas  Get feedback from clients  Identify and eliminate sources of negative PR early  Market research, polls and focus groups  Decrease support costs – let customers help each other

54 Social Networking Features II  Available features  User registration and management  Forums  Blogs  Message Boards  Groups  Friends  Polls  Private messaging  Media Libraries  Ready-to-use Community Starter Site  Community points and user badges

55 Forums II  Create on-line communities  Main features:  Moderation  Access rights for posting (anonymous/registered/chosen roles)  E-mail subscriptions  Full-text search  WYSIWYG editing (optional)  Signatures and user images (avatars)  Threaded/flat/tree view modes

56 Forums II  Main features - continued:  CAPTCHA verification (optional)  Document-related forums (e.g. article comments)  Lock forum  Post attachments  BB-editor text formatting  Inserting images  Quoting  Question & Answers mode – Mark post as answer

57 Forums

58 Blogs  Any number of blogs authored  Each blog authored by one of more people (enterprise blogging)  Integrates with standard content management and security features (workflow, friendly URLs, search, etc.)  Tagging, tag cloud and categories  Moderated comments  RSS feeds  Fully customizable design  Rating  Trackbacks and Pings

59 Blogs

60 Message Boards  Flat list of messages from users  Customizable permissions (anybody can post/only registered members/only chosen roles)  E-mail subscriptions  Moderation (optional)  Can be used for article or product comments

61 Message Boards

62 Groups  Create groups of members who share similar interests – such as users of some product or fans of some music band  Groups can share ideas and create content:  Message boards  Forums  Pages (Wiki)  Polls  Media libraries for sharing pictures and videos

63 Groups

64 Friends  Build personal or professional social networks

65 Polls  Get visitor opinions and feedback  Any number of answers  Single-choice or multiple-choice voting  Choose who can vote (anonymous/registered/chosen roles)

66 Polls

67 Private Messaging  Enable site members to send private messages to other members.  Useful for community sites.  Inbox/outbox/contact list/blocked users

68 Private Messaging

69 Media Libraries  Create media libraries and upload documents, images, music or video  Support for user-created content – visitors can upload their own content

70 Media Libraries

71 Licensing  1 Web Site (unlimited users)  1 Server (unlimited web sites on a single machine)  1 Server with Source Code  Editions (different feature sets):  Free Edition  Professional Edition  Enterprise Edition  Social Networking Edition  Feature matrix available at http://www.kentico.com/cms-asp-net- features/Feature-Matrix.aspx http://www.kentico.com/cms-asp-net- features/Feature-Matrix.aspx

72 System Requirements  Server:  Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003/2008  Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0/3.0/3.5  Microsoft IIS Server 5.0/6.0/7.0  Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 (including Express Editions)  Client (for editors):  Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0  FireFox 2.0  Safari 3.0  Client (for visitors):  Generally any browser, depends on the used web parts, all major browsers supported (IE, FF, Safari, Opera)  Developers  Visual Studio Professional 2005/2008 or Visual Web Developer 2005/2008 Express Edition (if you need to write your own code)

73 About Kentico Software  Founded in 2004 in the Czech Republic (European Union)  U.S. office since 2008  Privately held, no external funding  Named fastest growing Czech young company in 2008 by Deloitte  Focused only on Kentico CMS  1600+ clients in 83 countries  Kentico Solutions Partner network – over 600 active partners  More than 4000 web sites running on Kentico CMS, clients include:  Mazda  Gibson Musical Instruments  Bayer  Ireland.IE  Guinness  Air Jamaica  ESPN  More at http://www.kentico.com/Showcase.aspxhttp://www.kentico.com/Showcase.aspx


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