Switching to the new OpenCms 8 made easy with training courses from Alkacon

Sept. 27, 2011 - PRLog -- The new OpenCms 8 training courses of Alkacon Software provide the best possible introduction to OpenCms 8 development, right from the creators of OpenCms.

OpenCms 8 training courses are available at different skill levels and offer an introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, usage and creation of Templates, formatters and containers.

All Alkacon OpenCms courses have been developed specially for OpenCms and contain a variety of slides, lessons and exercises.

The training courses are available "on-site" at a location provided by the customer. The OpenCms Experts of Alkacon Software are used to travel worldwide.

The five day training course "Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training" is a comprehensive "jump start" to OpenCms development. It provides insight in OpenCms template and module creation, and also covers advanced procedures in OpenCms API development. The Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training Training course comes with a full set of exhaustive pre-build material. It contains over 500 slides and example code for more then 30 lessons . Also provided are exercises for all important topics.

The OpenCms Basic Template Training is a three day training course, intended for people with previous experience in building websites using HTML, PHP or other web technologies, but with basic Java knowledge only. This course provides an overview of JSP development basics in OpenCms and an introduction of the JSTL standard.

The Alkacon OpenCms Advanced API Training covers basic and advanced procedures in OpenCms API development. This three day training course is aimed at experienced Java web developers who have previous experience with Java, HTML and JSP and want to learn the OpenCms related special APIs.

Version 8 of Alkacon Software's successful open source website content management system OpenCms contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop.

OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license.

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Alkacon Software GmbH provides its customers with support, training and consulting services for OpenCms.
OpenCms is a complete and powerful open source web content management system based on Java and XML.