Ektron Developer's Guide: Building an Ektron Powered Website (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) [Paperback]

William Cava (Author), William Rogers (Author), Aniel Sud (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0470885696 | ISBN-13: 978-0470885697 | Edition: 1

The first book to cover the Ektron content management system (CMS)

Ektron CMS400.NET provides a complete platform that features all the functionality needed to create, deploy, and manage your Web site. The power is in your hands when you use the built-in server controls to deploy a site or customize the deployment with the API. Authored by a trio of Ektron insiders, this book escorts you through the detailed steps of building a prototype company site. Upon completion, you will have a complete and functional coded Web site that you can use as a template for future projects.

• Introduces the Ektron CMS400.NET as well as the Ektron architecture and includes an in-depth explanation of the Ektron framework
• Assumes no prior knowledge of the Ektron platform
• Shows you how to install the CMS, software dependencies, and samples sites
• Explains how to implement a social network and construct a storefront

Ektron Users Guide provides you with everything you need to know about the exciting possibilities of working with this popular and powerful platform.

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Best practices for ensuring a successful Ektron web project

Ektron provides a complete platform that features all the functionality needed to create, deploy, and manage a website, and this book walks you through the streamlined process of building an Ektron-powered site. Using a fictional website example, you'll learn to set up, configure, develop, test, and deploy a site using established best practices and helpful tips. Each chapter focuses on the implementation of a specific aspect of the site and offers an overview of the technology and step-by-step instructions to putting that particular functionality into practice. By the end of the book, you'll have acquired a solid understanding of the internal workings of the Ektron Framework.

Ektron Developers Guide:

• Introduces the web project methodology recommended by Ektron

• Discusses core Web Content Management concepts within the context of the sample site

• Reviews the main elements of the sample site's homepage, the most visited part of the site

• Explores the technology used to create a successful customer support portal

• Highlights ways to implement social network software

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About the Author

Bill Cava is Chief Evangelist at Ektron, where he works with the Developer Community.

Bill Rogers is founder and CEO of Ektron. He sets the strategic vision for the company and oversees the execution of that vision.

Aniel Sud serves as CMS Architect at Ektron, developing new and upcoming features such as PageBuilder and Calendars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (February 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470885696
• ISBN-13: 978-0470885697
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #715,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it., July 17, 2011

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This review is from: Ektron Developer's Guide: Building an Ektron Powered Website (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

Book only gives overview type information not really needed for a developer. Just use the online pdf files and API.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Reference, not a Guide, June 24, 2011

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This review is from: Ektron Developer's Guide: Building an Ektron Powered Website (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

As one other reviewer has already stated, by itself this book is very inadequate for a working developer to directly train from in order to build significant Ektron sites. The book leverages heavily an Ektron starter site, OnTrek, that is extremely difficult to obtain from the company. Typically only those working for an Ektron partner can obtain it. Thus the typical reader is forced to go without any computer-based tutorials from screen shot picture to screen shot picture with only a minimal explanation of the programming mechanics needed. And you will see no development workflow schematics in this "guide" that explains how a developer actually uses the architecture of this CMS as it sits within a web site. A mediocre presentation with too much expository blather and too little concrete development examples.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Start to Finish CMS Book, February 24, 2011

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This review is from: Ektron Developer's Guide: Building an Ektron Powered Website (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

This is a good book that is applicable to developers, of course... it's the "Developers Guide"... but it's also good for trainers, power users, marketing/communications employees... all across the organization. It talks about the WHY as well as the WHAT and HOW; so, there are sections like "the importance of social networking" and "connecting to clients." Buy a few, because once people figure that out, they'll have trouble sharing.

Cons? You'll end up tagging a lot of pages because the index is a bit short, and the code samples are only in C# (so, VB folks will have to figure out how some of them map to C# themselves). Maybe someone should re-write all the samples in VB and post them somewhere? (hint, hint)

Overall, it's a good start to finish cms book that takes you seamlessly from overview to specifics with something for everyone in-between. Thanks for writing this guys!