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Sitefinity Templates and Widgets National Contest. Developing for the Sitefinity Marketplace. Stanislav Padarev. Telerik Corporation. www.telerik.com. Sitefinity Solutions Consultant. What is Sitefinity?. Powerful .NET-based CMS System from Telerik. What is Sitefinity?.
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Sitefinity Templates and Widgets National Contest Developing for the Sitefinity Marketplace Stanislav Padarev Telerik Corporation www.telerik.com Sitefinity Solutions Consultant
What isSitefinity? Powerful .NET-based CMS System from Telerik
What is Sitefinity? • Sitefinity is next generation Web content management system (CMS) • For creating compelling websites, intranets, portals and blogs • Based on ASP.NET Web Forms • Developed by Telerik Corp. • One of the leaders in the .NET CMS market • www.sitefinity.com
The Contest Sitefinity Templates and Widgets
The Sitefinity Contest • Two categories: • Sitefinity Templates • Web site themes for Sitefinity • Specify the layout, look-and feel, web design • ASP.NET master page, CSS, images, scripts • Sitefinity Widgets • Add-ons for embedding in a page • E.g. "Recent Posts", "Tag Cloud", … • Written as ASP.NET web user controls (.ascx)
Awards 700 GBP inAmazon.co.uk Vouchers
Awards • Awards for the Sitefinity Templates category • 1st prize – 200 GBP as Amazon.co.uk voucher • 2ndprize – 100GBP as Amazon.co.uk voucher • 3rdprize – 50GBP as Amazon.co.uk voucher • Awards for the Sitefinity Widgets category • 1st prize – 200 GBP as Amazon.co.uk voucher • 2nd prize – 100 GBP as Amazon.co.uk voucher • 3rd prize – 50 GBP as Amazon.co.uk voucher • Interview for Job in Telerik
Evaluation Criteria How the Judge will Evaluate the Projects?
Evaluation Criteria • Innovation • How your project is different? • Applicability • Does anyone need your project? • Quality • Is your project high-quality? • Number of projects • More projects works better • But the quality still matters
Contest Rules Teams, License, Submission, Deadlines
Contest Rules • Team of one or several participants • Each team can submit many projects • More projects higher chance to win • All submitted projects will be published as open-source in the Sitefinity Marketplace • Project submission • By email: academy@telerik.com • Name + authors + source code + documentation • Deadline: 2 October 2011 (Sunday)
Sitefinity CMS Live Demo
Creating SitefinitySite Templates Live Demo
Creating Sitefinity Widgets Live Demo
Resources • ASP.NET • http://aspnetcourse.telerik.com • http://www.asp.net/web-forms • Sitefinity CMS • http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/ • http://sitefinity.com/40/help/developers-guide/ • Sitefinity Templates • http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/designers-guide.aspx, http://vimeo.com/20885591, http://tv.telerik.com/watch/sitefinity/real-world-project-development-with-sitefinity-40
Resources (2) • Sitefinity Widgets • http://www.sitefinity.com/40/help/developers-guide/quick-start-working-with-controls.html • http://blog.falafel.com/blogs/11-03-14/Creating_Custom_Form_Controls_in_Sitefinity_4_0.aspx • http://www.sitefinity.com/40/help/developers-guide/how-to-how-to-create-a-newsrotator-control.html • Web Front-End course discussion group: • http://groups.google.bg/group/frontendcourse
How to Join the Contest? • Create a team • Register at the Sitefinity Web site • https://www.sitefinity.com/registration-login/registration.aspx • Ask for a free Sitefinity license key • Send your email login to academy@telerik.com • Develop your projects • Submit your projects by email • Multiple submissions are allowed
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