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Level 1

Teacher: Paul Sterling
Target Audience: Designers, Web Developers
Language: English
Date: July 19-20, 2011 at 9.00 - 16.30
Location: The Seattle Public Library
Requirements: To get the most of out the course, we recommend that you bring your own laptop. If you can't let us know.

Learn how to implement websites fast without compromising designs. This two-day course will go through the basics of umbraco from a designer/developer point of view. You'll learn best practices on multi-lingual sites, creation of re-usable navigations and lists, input via the AutoForm and even end up loving XSLT. We'll also go through some of the popular packages and other productivity tricks.

Agenda - updated to cover Umbraco 4.7 functionality:

• Understanding the umbraco basics - Starter Kits/Modules, Document Types, Templates and Macros (including usage of the new Masterpages functionality)
• Creating a simple website from scratch
• Understanding Razor - creating a news "module"
• Creating multi-language websites including coverage of Dictionary Items and Languages
• Advanced properties: Re-use of properties and recursive usage of properties
• Two-way feedback using Contour and Notifications
• Optimizing markup for Canvas Editing
• Great Packages: Implementing full-text searching and mail forms

In other word, after two hard days in the dojo, you'll be able to create multi-lingual websites, blogs, news sites and even two-way communication without any need for .NET skills

This course covers everything you'll need to know to pass the Umbraco Developer Level 1 Certification

Level 2

Teacher: Paul Sterling
Target Audience:  Web Developers, .NET Developers
Language: English
Date: July 21-22, 2011 at 9.00 - 16.30
Location: The Seattle Public Library
Requirements: To get the most of out the course, we recommend that you bring your own laptop. If you can't let us know.

Learn how to integrate existing .NET applications into umbraco and how to customize umbraco using Microsoft Visual Studio. This two-day course will cover the usage of .NET controls in macros, event-programming in umbraco through the new Event model and how to integrate your own applications and logic directly in the umbraco interface.

Agenda - updated to cover Umbraco 4.7 functionality:

• Usage of .NET User Controls with umbraco
• Debugging XSLT, Razor and .NET Controls with umbraco and Visual Studio
• In-depth explanation of the umbraco object model and usage of the umbraco presentation APIs
• Creating, importing and modifying content from .NET using the API
• Usage of AJAX and umbraco
• Extending XSLT and Razor with custom .NET classes
• Custom event handling in umbraco using the brand new event handlers in Umbraco 4
• How to integrate legacy authentication systems using Membership and Role Providers

In other word, after two days of level 2, you'll learn that umbraco is a developer's best friend.

This course covers everything you'll need to know to pass the Umbraco Developer Level 2 Certification.