Getting Started with Business Catalyst

In this episode we'll begin by creating and setting up your first Business Catalyst trial site. Using a pre-built template of your choice, you'll explore the Admin Console and learn about the Partner Portal, your client site control center.

In this episode you'll learn how to manage your BC web pages and site content. Next we'll show you how the new Dreamweaver BC extension allows you to customize your sites look and feel and leverage powerful Dreamweaver features like templates, Live Mode, global CSS styling and Inspect mode.

In this episode you'll see how to integrate powerful BC modules in your web designs. We'll begin by taking a closer look at creating a dynamic menu, adding it to a page and overlaying a BC template. From there you'll see how both announcements and image portfolios are managed, and how you can begin moving your own content into your site. Finally, we'll show you how BC customer management is integrated directly into all your web forms, and how visitor's contact data is used to send email campaigns.

In this episode you'll see how to set up the online store for your new trial site. We'll take you through product and catalog creation and then jump right into designing and styling the layouts. Understanding how BC manages your store pages will give you insight into how to manage nearly every area for your site using custom layouts and powerful templates.

In this last episode, we'll show you how to share your trial site with your client. You'll see how to manage user logins, and how to activate a domain transfer and eCommerce features once you've made the sale. We'll also take a look at defining alerts based on specific client workflows, and using InContext Editing, the client-side editing feature just added to the Business Catalyst Platform.