Manage Your Own Damn Content! (An Intro to Sitecore)

Richard Seal, Sitecore Lead Architect at Lightmaker, will be going over what a Content Management System (CMS) is, what the benefits are, along with the basics of architecting a Sitecore instance.

Sitecore is one of the leading enterprise-level content management systems built on ASP.NET, enabling web content editors and marketers to have full control over all aspects of their website from social integration and blog posts to advanced personalisation, e-commerce and more. Launched in 2001, Sitecore has used the .NET platform from the beginning of the language itself, and has been growing in popularity over the last few years. Currently on its 7th major version, it now runs on .NET 2.0/4.0, and the core has been rewritten from scratch to take advantage of the improvements made in ASP.NET 4.5.