Kentico CMS 5.5 R2

1. Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 Full-featured 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. The most important features • On-line users • PayPal support • Personalized content • Personalized editor • Polls • Portal engine • Preview before publish • Project and Task management • Recycle Bin • Report Abuse • Reporting • Re-use content on several pages • Roles and Users • RSS feeds • SEO • Scheduled Tasks • Spell-checker • Starter Sites • Taxonomy - Categories, Tagging • Time-zones support • URL aliases • User contributions • User management • User registration and secured pages • Web analytics • Web farm support • WebDAV • Widgets • Windows authentication • Windows Live ID authentication • Workgroups • Workflow • WYSIWYG, browser-based editing • XHTML, CSS layouts, W3C WAI • Youtube integration • 200 built-in web parts • Active Directory integration • AJAX support • Approving documents • Authorize.NET • Avatars • Bad words • Badges • Banned IP addresses • Blogs • Booking System • Branding • Complete documentation of the CMS • Content and object staging • Content locking (check-in/check-out) • Content Rating • Content/design separation • Controls caching • Custom document types • Custom document types with • Custom event handlers • Custom fields • Custom tables • Custom web parts in C# and VB.NET • Customizable Menu • Customizable page templates • Customizable permissions • Customizable settings • Deployment on shared hosting • Document-level permissions • Document management • Drag-drop development • Dynamic site map • Easy deployment • E-commerce (on-line store) • E-mail queue • Event Calendar • Event Log • Export/import web sites or selected • Flexible content hierarchy • Flexible navigation • Forms authentication • Forums • Friendly (smart) URLs • Friends • Full source code • Full-text search • Fully customizable • Geo mapping (Google Maps) • Google sitemap • Groups • IE 6.0, IE 7.0 FireFox 1.0.5+, Mozilla 7.1+, Netscape 7.1+, Opera 7.52+ support • Image gallery • Incremental deployment of site changes • installation and database • Integration with custom user and role database, external authentication • Linked documents • Management and publishing of • Media library • Memory management • Message boards • Messaging • Multiple languages • Multiple sites using single code • Newsletters • Notifications • On-line forms (BizForms)

9. 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

10. Editing

11. 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)

12. Editing – WYSIWYG editor

13. 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

14. Multi-cultures web sites

15. Multi-lingual Admin UI

16. 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.

17. Full-text Search

18. 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, Bing, Yahoo 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 • Document Library • Project and Task management • Workgroups

19. 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

20. BizForms (On-line Forms)

21. 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.

22. Newsletters – Editing

23. Newsletters – E-mail

24. 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

25. Image Gallery

26. 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 • Wish list • Inventory status • Reports

27. E-commerce II • Support for integration with existing systems • Product options/product configuration • Customer credit (e.g. customer loyalty points) • 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.

28. E-commerce - Products

29. E-commerce - Cart

30. E-commerce – Orders

31. 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)

32. Taxonomy

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

34. Event Calendar

35. 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

36. Booking System

37. Geo Mapping • Display content on the map – e.g.: • office locations • stores • partners • real estates • points of interest in the city • Uses Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps

38. Geo Mapping

39. 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

40. User Contributions (Wiki)

41. 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.)

42. Web analytics

43. 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

44. Reporting

45. Reporting

46. 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: • Document is created • Document is approved in the workflow process • Document is published on the staging server • Review and approval by site manager -> synchronization • Document is published on the live server

47. Content and Object Staging

48. 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

49. 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 • Integration with LiveID, OpenID and FaceBook Connect

50. Forums I • 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