The Benefits of Sitecore

·        Single focus on WCMS and customer intelligence and engagement

·        Easy to handle globalization and localization needs

·        Simple to reuse content

·         Simple to reuse presentation templates and components

·         Comprehensive governance system for marketing content across global ecosystem

·          Freedom of design and experience for branding

·         Full support of interactive user generated experiences and content management

·         Software platform future proofing based on separation of content and presentation

·         Total multi-channel management

·         Strong mobile integration and third party content reuse

·         Marketing engagement management

·         Full MVC support

·         Integration with third party software including ERP, Ecommerce, CRM, Social, search and analytics

·         Native targeting and personalization within the user experience

·         Full MV and A/B testing capabilities for content and conversion optimization

·         Big data capable (SQL, Oracle, Mongo) to build one to one conversation across all channels

·         Out of the box engagement analytics for complete customer intelligence data for CMO and marketers

·         User interfaces designed for marketing team and web developers

DOCUMENTATION FOR SITECORE 8 DEVELOPERS

This blog post contains links to documentation for developers working with version 8 of the Sitecore ASP.NET web Content Management System (CMS) and Experience Platform (XP).

Introduction

All new documentation for Sitecore will appear within one of these two sites:

·     http://dev.sitecore.net: Product installation guides, release notes, and known issues.

·     http://doc.sitecore.net: All other documentation.

Forums and related content appear at https://community.sitecore.net. See also the Sitecore Community Documentation project (http://sitecore-community.github.io/docs).

Although I wrote it for Sitecore CMS 6.5 (before MVC, ContentSearch, SPEAK, and XP), much of the foundation in http://sitecorebook.com remains valid for Sitecore 8.

To access an RSS feed that consolidates numerous resources contributed by the Sitecore community, see http://feeds.sitecore.net/.

The remainder of this blog post describes resources on the old Sitecore Developer Network(http://sdn.sitecore.net) that are still relevant for developers working with Sitecore 8.

Fundamentals

·     Sitecore Glossary

Data

For the fundamental data concepts (not including XP), see:

·     Content Reference

·     Content Author’s Cookbook

·     Data Definition Reference

·     Data Definition Cookbook

·     The Sitecore Content API Cookbook

·     Developer's Guide to Item Buckets and Search

·     Data Definition API Cookbook

Presentation

To understand the Sitecore rendering engine and details about its Web Forms implementation, see:

·     Presentation Component Reference

·     Presentation Component Cookbook

·     Page Editor Recommended Practices for Developers

MVC

To understand the MVC implementation of the Sitecore rendering engine, in addition to the resources in the Presentation section above, see:

·     Sitecore MVC Developer's Reference Guide

·     Sitecore MVC - Getting Started (Part 1)

XSL

If you really want to consider XSL for presentation, see:

·     Whether and When to Use XSL in the Sitecore ASP.NET CMS

·     Presentation Component XSL Reference

Security

For security considerations including authentication, authorization, role, and profile management, see:

·     Security Reference

·     Security Administrator's Cookbook

·     Security API Cookbook

·     Membership Providers

Workflow

·     Workflow Reference

·     Workflow Cookbook

Advanced

For more advanced development concepts, see:

·     Client Configuration Cookbook

·     Include File Patching Facilities

·     Dynamic Links

·     Recommended Practices

·     Developer's Guide to Sitecore.Services.Client

·     SPEAK Documentation

·     Serialization Guide

·     Search and Indexing Guide

·     Reusing and Sharing Data

·     Rules Engine Cookbook

·     Search and Scaling Guide

·     Pipelines

Performance and Troubleshooting

For performance and troubleshooting, see:

·     Browser Configuration Reference

·     Presentation Component Troubleshooting Guide

·     Sitecore CMS Diagnostics Guide

·     Sitecore CMS Performance Tuning Guide

·     Cache Configuration Reference

·     Installation Troubleshooting

Conclusion

If you know of other good documentation for Sitecore 8 developers, please comment on this blog post.