SiteFinity

Sitefinity 5.0

The Telerik company known rich with a set of solutions for management of lifecycle of applications and the websites, released in March, 2012 the new version of the content management system of Sitefinity 5.0 with unique opportunities for automatic adaptation of web pages under any size of the screen – on smartphones, desktop PCs, tablets, etc.

A content management system of Sitefinity 5.0 belongs to the class CMS (Content Management System). This system constructed based on ASP.NET technology offers a huge set of opportunities for developers, the staff of service of marketing and IT managers. The feature set for adaptation of the websites to client devices with screens of the different size became the main advantage of the new version of a packet of Sitefinity. Without any additional setup the packet of Sitefinity 5.0 offers opportunities of so-called "sympathetic" design. Even unprepared users from marketing department will be able to define rules of dynamic adaptation of web pages to the different sizes of the screen by these opportunities. Thanks to these tools developers should not create separate versions of content and templates any more for the same website that this website could be browsed with ease on any client devices.

Key factor of "sympathetic" design is application of the so-called "media requests" provided by the standard of style tables CSS3. Using these media requests the contents of the same initial page can be scaled and displayed automatically in parts that these parts were not beyond the screen of the smartphone, the PC or the tablet. Operators of the website can execute a preview of pages for a set of client devices using the enclosed emulators – such print preview allows to be convinced that all elements of pages are displayed correctly.

The structure of a packet of Sitefinity 5.0 switches also on the new module of forums which helps to create and service difficult forums and chains of discussions. Besides, in the updated module of forums control of a participants status and moderation and also advanced search in records is supported.

Sitefinity Thunder plug-in for integrated development environment of the Visual Studio helps developers to create and edit design subjects through a usual environment of the Visual Studio. Using Sitefinity Thunder developers can be connected to the websites quickly to create, change and activate the completions.

The upgraded module of online trade Sitefinity Ecommerce will help the sales departments to sell digital goods. The end users of this module who do not have qualification of the developer can publish the sold content (it can be the PDF, MP3, MP4 files and so on), without worrying about their protection – all protection undertakes the Sitefinity web interface. It is enough to specify the price, and the Sitefinity system will provide accomplishment of further procedures for acceptance of payment and delivery of digital goods.

Thanks to support of the built-in authorization of Windows Authentication and the mechanism of uniform registration Single Sign-on, administrators of the websites based on Sitefinity will be able to manage access and verification processes of the identity of users on a set of the under control systems and resources.

One more important advantage of the version of Sitefinity 5.0 is in a convenient method of transition from the previous versions of Sitefinity 4.x. For fast migration on the freshest version of the platform from versions of Sitefinity 3.x the special corporate utility is offered.