Portal Engine is a model that allows building of web sites using web parts and widgets in the browser-based user interface without any programming knowledge. In this practical focused session you will see step-by-step how to create your new web site from the scratch. You will see how to deploy a CSS, how to prepare master page and page templates, how to create your first pages using webparts and widgets, how to prepare new document types and more.Step-by-step process of preparing and creating a new website using the Portal Engine.

1. Creating websites from scratch using Portal Engine
Jeroen Fürst, IBL-Software

2. Today’s agenda
• About me
• About IBL-Software
• Portal Engine
• Creating the website
• Questions

3. About me
blogs.jeroenfurst.nl
@jeroenfurst
• Kentico Lead Developer and Trainer for IBL-Software
• Experience with Kentico versions 2.0b through 5.5
• Created more than 50 websites over the last 4 years

4. About IBL-Software
• Full service ICT company since 1997
• Pragmatic, no-nonsense and customer focused
• 15 employees
• Originally custom software development
• Over 10 years of web development experience
• Working with Kentico since 2004
www.ibl-software.nl
@iblsoftware

5. IBL-Software’s vision
End user / editorial perspective
With Kentico CMS we are confident our clients work easy and
efficiently. Happiness in editorial work results in more up to date
content.
Development perspective
Stay ahead of our competitors by doing implementations fast and in
a structural way.
Client independence
Our clients work independently. By providing them with web parts
and widgets they can easily change functionalities on pages
themselves. No need for a developer on a daily basis.

6. Benefits of the Portal Engine
• Browser based UI
• Web parts and widgets
• Minimum programming skills
• Visual Studio / ASP.NET development is not required

7. Creating the website from scratch
• Website configuration
• Page templates
• CSS stylesheets
• Document types
• Transformations
• Web parts
• Widgets

8. Questions???
Contact
jeroen@ibl-software.nl
Blog, slides and examples
blogs.jeroenfurst.nl