Sitefinity Templates and Widgets

National ContestDeveloping for the Sitefinity Marketplace

Stanislav Padarev

Telerik Corporationwww.telerik.

com

Sitefinity Solutions Consultant

What is Sitefinity?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.com3

The ContestSitefinity 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)

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Awards700 GBP in

Amazon.co.uk Vouchers

Awards Awards for the Sitefinity Templates 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

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

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Evaluation CriteriaHow 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

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Contest RulesTeams, 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)

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Sitefinity CMSLive Demo

Creating SitefinitySite Templates

Live Demo

Creating Sitefinity Widgets

Live Demo

Resources

Resources ASP.NET

http://aspnetcourse.telerik.com http://www.asp.net/web-forms

Sitefinity CMS http://www.sitefinity.com/documentati

on/

http://sitefinity.com/40/help/developers-guide/

Sitefinity Templates http://www.sitefinity.com/documentati

on/designers-guide.aspx, http://vimeo.com/20885591, http://tv.telerik.com/watch/sitefinity/real-world-project-development-with-sitefinity-40

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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

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How to Join the Contest?

1. Create a team

2. Register at the Sitefinity Web site https://

www.sitefinity.com/registration-login/registration.aspx

3. Ask for a free Sitefinity license key Send your email login to

academy@telerik.com

4. Develop your projects

5. Submit your projects by email Multiple submissions are allowed

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