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Sitefinity Development Services

Overview

Sitefinity CMS is a flexible ASP.NET-based content management platform that is used for the construction and management of commercial websites, community portals, intranets, etc. The product's architecture leverages the .NET development patterns, including Master Pages, templates, standard and user controls, themes and CSS. Sitefinity CMS is engineered with flexibility and extensibility in mind to give developers the freedom they need to integrate legacy applications or use custom 3rd party controls and modules.

InspirationGate has extensive experience in developing on Sitefinity CMS, our own website is running on Sitefinity and is utilizing a lot of its features.

Why do we recommend Sitefinity?

  • Provider Model
    Everything in Sitefinity is built on the Provider model. This allows developers to use the built-in ASP.NET features such as Membership, Profiles, Sitemap with various databases and various settings, while only minimal coding and modifications are required.
  • Personalization framework
    Sitefinity’s Personalization Framework provides an API for storing various information on user-by-user basis. Using the fully exposed API, any developer can take advantage of these feature when developing modules or controls.
  • Open and Extendable
    The open architecture and fully-exposed API make Sitefinity virtually infinitely extendable, be it through modules, controls, services or completely new systems that will integrate with it. Developers can reuse existing functionality, extend or combine it, while designers have unprecedented flexibility in styling the public pages, as well as the appearance of the CMS itself.
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Support
    Sitefinity offers deep integration with Visual Studio .NET. Side-by-side development and result testing in the working project has never been easier. In Visual Studio, users can write new user controls for Sitefinity, modify the functionality of existing ones, or reuse readily-available code.
  • Support for CSS layouts
    Sitefinity’s administration layout supports style sheets, helping web developers separate content from presentation. Style sheets let developers store only structure in generated HTML markup, while keeping presentation in a file. This streamlines layout formatting and maintenance for a consistent page look. These styles can be applied to different pages, improving productivity and promoting a consistent look and feel.
  • Themes / Skins
    Sitefinity is shipped with a collection of themes and skins that can be reused in different projects. Users can also create their own custom themes and skins.
  • Templates
    Sitefinity offers a number of different templates - website templates, which allow predefinition of the whole website; page templates, which allow predefinition of a page; control templates, which allow predefinition of a control; and designer templates, which allow predefinition of control templates settings.
  • Online Administration
    The CMS can be completely managed through a web browser - end-users can upload files as well as manage page content and organization online.
  • Workflow Engine
    In Sitefinity it is easy to define the workflow process and ensure that new or modified content passes through a process of approval before going live. It can be easily enabled or disabled and can be applied on a content and page level.
  • Interface Localization
    Sitefinity CMS provides a way to reach out to global community of editors and allow them to create and manage content in their own language. With Sitefinity CMS, it is easy having the administration interface translated in any language supported by the .NET framework.

What have we done with Sitefinity?

  • InspirationGate.com
    Our own website is running on Sitefinity, the portal makes extensive use of the majority of Sitefinity’s features including skinning, development, URL rewriting, content management, workflow approval, caching, custom modules, administration extensions and others. A complete case study is available here.
  • Atril.com
    Atril is a company that develops and markets computer aided translation products. InspirationGate developed the new version of their website Atril.com which is built using Sitefinity and a number of custom eCommerce modules. A complete case study is available here.