CMS learning path
Alloy demonstration templates
Alloy is an Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) demonstration template package that contains a site for a fictional company, Alloy Technologies , and to demonstrate the most important features of CMS and give you a site that is ready to explore or to start with. Optimizely builds the Alloy templates on the latest CMS platform.
Content model and views
Content in Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) consists of pages, blocks, media files, and folders. It can also be catalog content in Optimizely Customized Commerce.
Page tree and routing
Website URLs carry information from the browser to the server, requiring it to enact a desired action. URLs in a format, for example, with ID identifiers, are often difficult to interpret.
Create and edit content
Examples in this topic are based on an empty Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) project, as described in Create a starter project . A content instance is an instance of a content type .
Deployment
When developing an Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) site with Visual Studio integrations, the site will use IIS Express, SQL Server Express, and LocalDB to make it easy for developers to build and test sites. During development, you will eventually want to deploy your solution to a production-like environment to verify that everything works.
Developer prerequisites
To succeed with your projects as an Optimizely developer, you should have a good understanding of these areas HTML https //www. w3schools.
Initial configuration
Depending on the type of settings, Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) can configure multiple locations. Typical examples are configuration files such as appSettings.
Upgrade CMS
The Optimizely framework is a set of NuGet packages part of a web application, which you can host locally or in the cloud. You upgrade Optimizely through Visual Studio and the NuGet package manager.
Learning path
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Listings and navigation
You can, for example, build navigation using link collections, structure-based visual components like menus and breadcrumbs, or search-based navigation and filtering. A Link Collection is often used for things like related content or lists of links in the page footer.
Media support
Examples in this topic are based on an empty Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) project, as described in Create a starter project . Optimizely has built-in features that support working with media such as documents, images, and video.
CMS user interface
The Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) splits the user interface into two main parts one for editors (edit view) and one for administrators (admin view). Access policies control access to the different parts.
Security checklist
(Thanks to Daniel Ovaska for providing the foundation for this checklist. ) This topic provides an overview of common security issues to be aware of when building websites.
Technology stack
Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) is based on Microsoft technology and uses Internet Information Services (IIS) as a web server and . NET Framework and ASP.
What is a CMS?
Initially, you built a website by creating a single HTML page with some introduction text and maybe some images. You would then create, for example, two more pages with product and contact info.