Tuesday, September 23, 2008

New Sitefinity book published by Falafel

So, you've built a great website with Sitefinity (in record time, no less). You've wowed your clients with the site's rich page layout editor. You've impressed them with the site's ability to easily host blogs and forums. You've stunned them with the affordable price. Your clients are ready to become "web masters," but to get there they want some training. Before you trudge-off and try to build a training program for your Sitefinity users from scratch, don't miss the new book published by our good partners at Falafel titled Sitefinity Made Easy. In this 216 page book, the training masters at Falafel have built a complete 2-day course targeted at non-developers to help them get the most out of Sitefinity. From a complete tour of Sitefinity's features to in-depth discussion of customizing pages with modules, this book covers most of the topics end-users need to be productive in Telerik's CMS. There are even sections dedicated to walking the non-developer through Sitefinity installation and deployment, so if your end-users are a little more "hands-on," this is a great resource for them, too. The book is available directly via Lulu Press, $30 for paperback, $20 for digital PDF. Enjoy the resource and watch for more great books from Falafel soon!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

RE: You've stunned them with the affordable price.

Question: what would be a typical price range for a web site based on Telerik CMS?

Todd Anglin said...

@Anon- If you're building a site for a small business or organization, Sitefinity is 100% free! Some of the more advanced features are not available in Sitefinity Community Edition (like workflow and versioning), but otherwise it's a perfect platform for small projects. If your project is bigger, Sitefinity Standard Edition is just $899 per domain (quite a bit cheaper than most full-featured .NET CMS products). Hope that helps answer your question.

-Todd

Anonymous said...

Thanks Todd. I was primarily interested in the profit margins for web developers using Telerik's CMS. If you have some time, that would be an interesting blog post.

I wander if it's possible to make a good living considering all other open source solutions for cms.

Todd Anglin said...

@Anon- I see. Sorry for missing your point. I will try to talk to some of the devs out there that have used Sitefinity for client projects and get a sense for the margins they're making. At the very least, I can say that your margins will at least match what you could make with an open source CMS if you use Sitefinity CE. And unlike an open source CMS, you get free, professional support for the platform when you use SF and free use of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX with your site. Something to consider...

-Todd

Anonymous said...

Hi. Is there any book available on Sitefinity 3.6 ?

Todd Anglin said...

@Anon- I don't think there is an updated book for 3.6, but stay tuned for 4.0. There is lots of work being planned for updating books and resources when that release hits later this year.

-Todd