Telerik Sitefinity CMS

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Telerik Sitefinity CMS
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Sitefinity.com home page
Developed by Telerik
Latest release Sitefinity 3.2 / March 4, 2008
Platform ASP.NET / Microsoft SQL Server, Server 2000/2005, Express, Oracle 8+, MySQL
Genre CMS, Blog software, Forum Software, Photo Gallery
License proprietary
Website http://www.sitefinity.com

Telerik Sitefinity CMS is a web-based development platform for construction and management of websites, community portals, forums, blog, and intranets. Sitefinity offers an open architecture that allows easy integration and of third-party ASP.NET controls and pluggable modules. Sitefinity CMS is developed by Telerik and built with ASP.NET, C# and Microsoft SQL Server. Besides Microsoft SQL Server, Sitefinity also works under Oracle 8+ and MySQL. The most recent version is Sitefinity 3.2[1]. There are two editions and they are both available as downloadable software at http://www.sitefinity.com.

Sitefinity Standard Edition offers advanced CMS capabilities, such as workflow, versioning, multilingual support, unlimited CMS user accounts.[2]

Sitefinity Community Edition is a scaled down version of the Standard Edition which is developed for building online communities, blogs, and forums.[3]

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[edit] History

Sitefinity is a product of Telerik, a leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components and development tools for ASP.NET and Windows Forms, and .NET Reporting solutions.[4] It is headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria and has over 70 employees. Telerik was founded in 2002 by Svetozar Georgiev, Vassil Terziev, Boyko Iaramov and Hristo Kosev and is a privately-held company with offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Sofia, Bulgaria.[5]

[edit] Releases

  • Sitefinity 1.0
  • Sitefinity 1.1
  • Sitefinity 2.0
  • Sitefinity 2.5
  • Sitefinity 2.5.2
  • Sitefinity 2.5.3
  • Sitefinity 2.6
  • Sitefinity 2.7
  • Sitefinity 3.0[6]
  • Sitefinity 3.1[7]
  • Last stable release – Sitefinity 3.2[8]

[edit] Features

  • Extensible architecture, fully-exposed API
  • Integration of ASP.NET controls and custom modules
  • Customizable through Visual Studio .NET
  • Featuring Telerik RadControls UI suite
  • WYSIWYG HTML editing
  • Unlimited layout freedom to create website templates by using tables, DIV, and CSS
  • Workflow, versioning, content reuse
  • Ready-to-use modules such as Blogs, Forums, News, Polls, Images& Documents Gallery, Events, etc.
  • Customizable search service
  • Search Engine Optimization capabilities
  • Ready-to-use website templates
  • More features

[edit] See also

[edit] External links


[edit] References

  1. ^ Telerik Sitefinity (exe), from telerik - Software Downloads - TechRepublic
  2. ^ CMS Matrix - cmsmatrix.org - The Content Management Comparison Tool
  3. ^ ASP.NET Control Gallery - Sitefinity 3.0 Community Edition
  4. ^ Sponsors
  5. ^ Contact telerik
  6. ^ Sitefinity CMS Strives for Sweet Developer, Manager Balance
  7. ^ Display News
  8. ^ Telerik Watch: Sitefinity 3.2 delayed, due mid February