DNN CMS training - content-management-system

Whats the best way to start to train an end user in a CMS like DOTNETNUKE?
The end user will want to add edit and delete there own content. They will need to install modules and understand how everything works?
Should i create a manual? is there a way to plan some training?
any ideas?
edit: the end users are VERY I.T illiterate, they struggled to even understand the rich text editor. I need to train them on how to use the form and list module and the HTML module for editting content. They want a document of some sort, this is really old school.

PD24, for what most customers do it usually only takes 5-10 minutes of training. I usually create a couple Jing Videos which is a free screen and audio recording tool. I go through and do voice over as I create a page, edit text, add photos, add modules and record it. Then I send them the links they can reference if they ever need a reminder.
Works great! (boooo to manuals, no one reads those and they take a lot of time to make!)
& DNNcreative is probably too detailed for your client, that's a good resource for DNN implementers.

We have a variety of videos in the video library on DotNetNuke.com you could point users to those for specific topics.
We (DotNetNuke Corp) also provide custom training solutions, we could develop a custom training program for your client that fits the scope of your project and delivery requirements. If you want more info feel free to email me at training#dnncorp.com.

Have a look into www.dnncreative.com, they have some awesome tutorials for developers and users.

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create tagging schema

There are ~50k articles which needs to be analyzed and a tag schema dictionary needs to be created post, which becomes the base for the Auto Tagging feature we plan to build for the site.
Are there any tools available to tag the data and help generate a list of kind of data available in the data-set.
If not then what would be a good place to start?
There is a data mining tool called Weka, You can try downloading it. There are many weka videos in youtube. You can also google it there is lot of information available.
Well there are few tools for data analysis and you can watch videos on youtube to learn one of them.
1) Weka, KNIME- if you are good in Java then you should go for it.
2)Orange, NLTK- if you are good in python then you can choose this.
3)R-programming- if you are good in C, then you can go for it.

magento custom order form

Thank you in advance for reading this. Here is the situation. I have been working on a online guitar shop using Magento CE 1.7 for several months. I greatly underestimated the cost of the site and I know that is my fault not the client who by the way is a great guy. There where many issues that took a lot of time including having to move it from a testing server to the real domain, many logo tweaks etc. I am almost done with it and really need to “stop the bleeding” so to speak however there is one feature that he really wants that I am at my whits end with.
Its a custom order form for guitar pickups. He had one on his old site that was don’t in ASP and besides not knowing ASP we are now on a Unix server.
His requirements are “the ability for someone to choose a category (ie: 7-string, Strat Replacement, Tele Replacement, etc) , and then have it be able to only show options that are applicable to what that selection. I want customers to be able to see descriptions of each pickup somewhere on this page. I also want people to be able to see what the covers/colors look like when they choose that.”
I was able to use the way back machine to at least show you guys what he wants, here is the link http://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120127233223/http://www.axepalace.com/pickup_order.asp
Here is my attempt to create it with a product with lots of options. http://axepalace.com/pickups/bare-knuckle/bkp-order-form/bare-knuckle-pickup-order-form.html
So could anyone please give me some feedback / suggestions. My sanity would really appreciate it!

Wordpress Front end form to upload document .doc or .pdf

Just wondering if there is a plugin that you are aware of that i can find that will allow anyone can go to a form that supports document uploads etc.
I pretty much want to allow people to go to the site, see a job vacancy and apply for it by entering the details and being able to upload their resume.
Thanks for your help guys, im finding it hard to find a plugin anywhere that is free as im on a low budget.
Thanks again
I can think of two options here. Either allow a contributor to upload files with an addition to the functions. This would let them upload things from their Dashboard;
http://wpcanyon.com/tipsandtricks/allow-contributors-to-upload-files-in-wordpress/
Or something a little more suited to photos, but something you could certainly use quite well with NextGEN gallery; http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-a-smooth-jquery-public-file-uploader-to-wordpress/
TDO Mini Forms allows you to do exactly what your asking, and it's free.
http://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/
The only downside is that it is no longer supported, so you're pretty much on your own if you have problems. What you're asking for seems pretty straightforward, though.
Another option is Wufoo: http://wufoo.com/
It is a fantastic service, and meshes beautifully with WP. The downside is that while they have a free plan, the file upload component is only part of the paid plan.
Hope that helps!

Which CMS do I need? Needs to be easy to post a certain kind of post

I'm creating a site for a video store and it needs to be CMS. I'm doing this for free so I need to use a free CMS like Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla.
Do I need a new CMS, a plugin or some PHP of my own?
What I need:
User accounts
Categories
Custom post
Here's the site as it stands with WP: http://sundancevideo.ca. Right now an experimental site to try to work this out.
What I've done now, is created a "Draft" that includes a template table with images and text and so on. The user would then have to copy everything, past into a new post and replace necessary. This really isn't working well. As you may notice by the condition of the posts.
What I would prefer is if it was integrated into the WP UI. Like a field for "Description" and field for "Image" where they can upload the images as necessary. This would then generate post, with a table including all the information and images, for as many movies that were added in the UI.
I would suggest taking a look at PodsCMS as a great way to implement real CMS functionality in to WordPress. It allows you to create various content types, relate these content types, and more importantly live outside of the "WordPress bubble".
You'll find a fairly good codex and user guides (the ones authored by Johnathan Christopher are a great start). There is a solid API for this in the event that you need to integrate Pods in to an existing plugin or one you are creating. There are also developer and user contributed packages for Pods and there is even a YouTube video package you may want to check out.
PodsUI (soon to be merged with PodsCMS) allows you to create administration menus in WordPress very easily and allows you to pretty much make it look and feel how ever you want.
Flutter is a dead project and while it may be a little more user friendly than PodsCMS it lacks in in development, support, and over all usability.
Feel free to drop in the Pods Chat or # them on Twitter.
As for the user accounts you should read up on WordPress user roles/capabilties and also check through the WordPress PHPxref. A lot can be done in the way of using WordPress' current user system and you can even add other meta information for users if needed.
If you want a full CMS backend then you can't use Wordpress without extensive customising. You might want to check out pods cms for Wordpress which is an extension to attempt to turn Wordpress into a CMS. However, I have tried using it before and you will still be left with a confusing UI for your users. It will allow you to do the custom fields you want, however.
If you want full control over the UI, you will have to use either your own PHP or Drupal. Which one depends on how complex the project is and how much experience with Drupal you have had. If it is simple and your Drupal experience is limited, definitely go with your own PHP because Drupal is hard to learn. I think it would take you more time to learn Drupal than it will be to get a simple interface going with PHP.
I think this post will be helpful, depending on your experience, if you go with your own code.
i don't have particular suggestion for you custom need. Except beware for how much you give permission for your member. Please make sure they were a contributor and not author. In wp, the contributor role has no ability to publish. They have ability to post something just as a review. Thus, Administrator can review them and then published if it appropriated.
The problem with this situation is when you need them to upload things. The member with contributor role has no ability to upload video, image, or song. You have to custom this.
But if you only need their snippet or HTML link to the video (probably in youtube), then you don't have to change default wordpress role.
sorry if i mislead by your question. just trying to help as much as i can
I guess it depends on your shop's needs. I understand wanting to use wordpress, and you can do it, but at this point it almost makes people think... 'why?' If youre just going to use paypal and have a few products it might be a good idea but I think carts like zencart and oscommerce that are much better suited to store's needs. Though they are a little older. Magento and opencart are more modern, and all free. Though I've only ever used zen cart. None of these are terribly hard to set up. I guess You could always have you wordpress from page and use a link to your carts store menus.
MODx is brilliant for customisability - it was designed from the ground up to be extensive. It runs on PHP and MySQL.
You can create your own templates, add fields to those templates that appear in the UI when someone wants to create or edit a page based on that template. It has widgets for different data types, like images, dates etc that your users can use to add data to a page.
You also have full control over the HTML because you write the templates yourself. If the core code doesn't do what you need, you can write snippets in plain PHP to change the behaviour.
I've used it on a few projects over the past 3 years and I love it. I'd recommend MODx Evolution (v1.0.3) as that's stable. There's a brand-new rewritten version (Revolution 2.0.0) which is a release candidate at the moment, so you might want to have a play with that instead.
I reckon once you know MODx enough to create the site design, it'd be fairly easy to implement an off-the-shelf shopping cart into it (there may even be a MODx plugin that already does this.)

Is there a well known classifier library?

I'm crawling data from internet,without classifying.
Is there such a library to recommend?
EDIT
I'm crawling jobs from other website,and I need to group them into different industries.
To sort unlabelled data into groups, you want clustering, not classification. The most complete machine learning library is the Java-based Weka. You'll probably want to start by extracting text from the web pages (remove script and style elements completely, strip other tags), and then running the text through the StringToWordVector filter before performing clustering.
My current employer developed a system to categorize web pages. There were not any useful libraries that we could find so we had to do our own. We do not license ours out.
I can give you some hints. Spam analyzers classify email into Junk or Not Junk. You can use the same tools such as Bayesian, CRM-114, etc to do your own classifications on any text, including web pages.
You will have to watch the results of these very carefully and give them a lot of human feedback. You can often find keyword sets that will score very well for you. Finding those keyword sets will take time and effort and it will change some over time.
You will have to write code to divide web pages into topic sections because most pages are not all one thing. There are ad frames, navigation and other things.