Two new MOSS WCM sites recently launched

I love hearing back from customers and former students of my MOSS WCM development class when they launch a new public facing Publishing site. In the last two weeks I've heard back from two class alumni who launched brand new Publishing sites recently that are brand new sites on the platform (they didn't come from MCMS 2002).

Starz Entertainment
space150, an agency, recently launched the new Starz Entertainment site (www.starz.com) that serves as the home for Starz Movie Channel, Encore and few others. This is a cool site with lots of rich media, a very useful search and gigantic movie database. Here's a little word from one of the guys on the project:

“Andrew’s class is the clear choice for bringing development teams up to speed on WCM. After Andrew’s class our team hit the ground running with everything we needed for building enterprise WCM sites in MOSS 2007.” –James Squires, Tech Lead, space150.

SAF Holland
Another site, SAF Holland (~~www.safholland.com~~ www.safholland.us), went live this past week. These guys were able to create a slick multilingual solution and pull technical specs of all the different products they offer from a product database throughout the site. Here's a comment from one of the people on the implementation team:

"We were able to complete this site because of the training that we received from you in wcm401. Everything we did was created as features and solutions which made our SharePoint life much easier." - Russ Smith, SAF Holland

Have you taken my class and have a public facing site you want to share? Let me know!

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posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:31 AM

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# re: Two new MOSS WCM sites recently launched 9/24/2008 8:05 AM Remco Ploeg

Hi Andrew,

Great blog. We launched this week an new website on MOSS 2007 and Windows 2008 at the University of Nyenrode.

http://www.nyenrode.nl (English website)

# re: Two new MOSS WCM sites recently launched 9/24/2008 8:21 AM kets

The site (http://www.safholland.com/en.html) really looks very nice. Do you know how was the "Select your Local Website" web-part of field control was implemented? how were those menus implemented? Any details you can share would be nice to know.

Thanks
Ketan

# re: Two new MOSS WCM sites recently launched 9/24/2008 9:12 AM Russ Smith

The "Select Your Local Website" control on www.safholland.com was created in Flash.

I need to make a correction to the url provided by Andrew. The site at www.safholland.com is not a SharePoint site but was created by a marketing firm in Germany using another content management development tool. The two SharePoint sites that we have launched are at http://www.safholland.us and http://www.safholland.de for USA and Germany, respectively.

On the homepage of both sites, we did implement a custom web part that allows us to insert either a static image or a flash file. To use this web part we just need to put the link to the image or flash file in the properties pane. The image on the USA site is a flash file and the image on the German site is static.

Russ

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