Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS makes it easy to reach out to your global community of editors and allow them to create and manage content in their own language.  This webinar will demonstrate how to enable and utilize multi-language support in Sitefinity.  In addition, this webinar will examine how to localize the Sitefinity interface (labels, errors messages, contextual help & buttons) for specific languages.

The original video can be watched on telerik.tv.

The notes for this webinar can be found here.

This webinar covers the following topics:

• Overview of localization in ASP.NET web sites
• Using implicit ASP.NET localization (App_LocalResources)
• Using explicit ASP.NET localization (App_GlobalResources)
• Enabling localization on ASP.NET pages
• Enabling localization globally for an ASP.NET web site (web.config)
• Enabling Sitefinity page localization
• Setting the Sitefinity localization persistenceMode (DomainName, DomainExt, PathPrefix)
• Changing the localization cultures
• Creating localized versions of existing Sitefinity pages
• Copying content, templates, and themes from existing language versions
• Combining RadEditor ...

Under the hood Sitefinity has a very rich API that can be used to interact with CMS resources.  This webinar will demonstrate how to use this API to create, update and retrieve CMS resources.  In addition, we'll explore how to use this API to create advanced features and wield CMS resources in unexpected ways.

The original video can be watched on telerik.tv.

The notes for this webinar can be found here.

This webinar covers the following topics:

• Sitefinity Pages API Overview
• Fetch all pages
• Fetch some page
• Create a new page
• Find a page by name
• Deleting pages
• Create a page - set properties, set templates, set themes and add controls
• Modify a page – alter existing controls, add additional controls
• Rollback to a previous version of the page
• Generic Content API Overview
• Get Generic Content items
• Setting a new Generic Content Provider
• Getting news using the ContentManager
• Getting news ...

This webinar examines user management and security in Sitefinity.

Out of the box, Sitefinity empowers you to easily manage CMS users and roles. However, there are alternatives to the default user management provided by Sitefinity. Sitefinity can also integrate with an organization’s Active Directory. In addition, an entirely custom membership provider can be created and applied to Sitefinity. In this webinar, we’ll explore various strategies for managing Sitefinity’s users and roles.

The notes page, referenced by this webinar, can be found here.

I truly appreciate everyone who attended this webinar live.  I apologize for my bad Internet connection that caused the audio and video problems.  The webinar posted above is re-recorded to eliminate some of the Internet problems I encountered on the live version.

This webinar covers the following topics:

• Overview ASP.NET Membership & Role Providers
• Overview of User Management in Sitefinity
• Adding custom fields to Sitefinity’s Membership Provider
• Overview ...

In this webinar Joseph Anderson demonstrates how to integrate Sitefinity with the APIs from a variety of popular online applications, including Google Checkout, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon.com and the RSS Feeds from Thomson Reuters.

By integrating these APIs with Sitefinity, you can add everything from basic e-commerce to steaming videos to your site without writing much code. You will see live demos showing you how to bind data from these APIs and how you can use the Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX to display this data on a Sitefinity page.

Topics covered in this webinar:

• Overview of Telerik
• Overview of Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS
• Why have a public API?
• XML vs C# API, what are they?
• Advantages and disadvantages
• General Ideas behind APIs
• Google Checkout
• YouTube
• Amazon
• Facebook
• Thomson Reuters with Control Designer

Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS offers an advanced search service that allows you to quickly and easily find information managed by the CMS.  This webinar demonstrates how to index custom data, hide data, create new search indexes and deliver fast & relevant search results.

The notes referenced in this webinar can be found here (opens in a new window).

Topics covered in this webinar:

• Overview of Sitefinity Search
• Creating new Search Indexes
• Using Sitefinity Search Controls
• Overview of Lucene and Lucene.Net
• Brief look at Lucene Luke
• Advanced Lucene Search Queries
• Enabling wildcard & fuzzy searches
• Emphasizing / Deemphasizing search results
• Creating a Custom Search Provider

In this webinar, you’ll learn the importance of having a well built website from a lead generation standpoint.  Employing a CMS is one way to ensure that your website is always driving qualified leads.  We’ll cover the basics of search engine optimization and paid search, and the role a CMS plays in making these efforts successful.  Some of the topics we’ll cover include:

This webinar was prepared by Wakefly and presented in conjunction with Telerik. 

Topics covered in this webinar:

• What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
• What do Search Engines look for?
• Optimizing your web site
• Measuring success through web analytics
• Improving organic search result ranking
• Importance of expressive URLs
• How does a CMS make complying with SEO best practices easy? 
• How do you constantly improve the performance of your website? 
• How does a CMS make it easy to quickly launch new landing pages?
• How does a CMS help you ...

In this webinar session Gabe Sumner (Developer Evangelist) and Ivan Osmak (Senior Developer) demonstrate how to create a custom “pluggable” Sitefinity navigation control.  This webinar will use WebEditors, Control Designers and Control Templates to create a highly usable and distributable custom Sitefinity control.

Webinar Outline:

• Creating a new Class Library Project in Visual Studio
• Creating a basic HelloWorld Pluggable Control
• Creating a basic SubLinks Navigation Control
• Adding Attributes & Properties to a Sitefinity Control
• Adding a Columns property to the SubLinks navigation control
• Embedding CSS stylesheets in the assembly (DLL)
• Using enumerators to add a dropdown list property.
• Creating a custom PageIdSelector WebEditor
• Creating a custom Control Designer for the SubLinks control
• Embedding a template in the assembly (DLL)
• Using GenericContainer to access template properties
• Resolving Assembly Version dependencies

Webinar Resources:

• Webinar Notes
• SitefinityWatch WebUI Codeplex Project
• Partial Assembly References
• Configuring Assembly Binding Redirection
• Sitefinity Watch – WebEditor Blogs
• Sitefinity ...

This webinar examines the different techniques for creating custom Sitefinity Modules. In this webinar, we create a basic Intra-Site Module.  In addition, we examine Sitefinity 3.6 features that make this task easier than ever.

The notes discussed in this webinar can be found here.

Topics covered in this webinar:

• The difference between Intra-Site Modules and Pluggable Modules
• How to easily add custom modules to Sitefinity
• How to add a Sitefinity Module using ASP.NET User Controls.
• Why the User Control method eventually becomes too complex to manage.
• How Sitefinity 3.6 Views assist with Module creation.
• How to make Custom Modules visually look like they are native Sitefinity modules.
• How to associate Tools with a Custom Module.

Thanks to Ivan Osmak for helping me present this topic and everyone who attended the live webinar!

The webinar I conducted a few weeks ago during Webinar Week has now been posted to Telerik.tv.  In this webinar I start with nothing and demonstrate:

• How to install Sitefinity using the EXE and the Blank Project.
• How to apply a custom design to Sitefinity.
• How to create Sitefinity templates using ASP.NET master pages.
• How to create Sitefinity themes using App_Themes.
• How to extend Sitefinity with ASP.NET User Controls.
• How to extract & customize Sitefinity Control Templates.

If you're brand new to Sitefinity this webinar will (hopefully) help you hit the ground running.

To view this video in its full sized glory, click here.

Here is the invitation for the upcoming Webinar on February 12, 2009:

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/854003202

Do you want to learn how to unlock the power of Sitefinity customization? Join Sitefinity Evangelist Gabe Sumner in this new webinar that will teach you everything you need to know to create custom modules for Sitefinity. With custom modules, you can extend Sitefinity’s built-in functionality (such as Blogs, Forums, Events, and News) with your own custom functionality that seamlessly integrates in the Sitefinity site administration.

You’ll learn everything you need to know to build your first custom module, and you’ll also discover how Sitefinity 3.6 is making custom module development easier than ever. If you want to get the most out of your Sitefinity customizations, don’t miss this session!

Title:         Creating Custom Sitefinity Modules
Date:        Thursday, February 12, 2009
Time:        10:00 AM - 11:00 AM MST

After registering you will ...