Getting started
The getting started section contains movies on installing and using SDL Tridion and add-on products.
- Quick Guide to installing SDL Tridion
This quick guide runs you through a basic installation of SDL Tridion on one machine and shows you how to publish content from the Content Manager to a Web site using the HTTP protocol. The Quick Guide is intended to instruct you on the fundamentals of installation and publishing. - Quick Guide to installing Experience Manager (Session Preview)
Experience Manager is a Web-based user interface to the Content Manager that provides in-context editing: end users preview, edit and create Web site content in a 'Staging Web site'. To store user's modifications and display content updated by other users (session data), you need to set up Session Preview. Session Preview ensures that users can view updates to content without having to continually check-in and republish the content. The Quick Guide is intended to instruct you on how to get Session Preview for Experience Manager up and running. - Quick Guide to creating a Page Template
This Quick Guide instructs you on the fundamentals of templating by walking you through the creation of your first Page Template, based on an HTML design we provide. - Quick Guide to creating a Component Template
This Quick Guide instructs you on the fundamentals of templating by walking you through the creation of your first Component Template, based on an HTML design we provide. - Developing a Provider (ECL)
The developing a Provider movie demonstrates how to use the External Content Library API to create a Provider that connects to the simple Vimeo API. - Introduction to GUI Extensions
The GUI API allows you to add custom controls to the Content Manager Explorer Web interface and modify behavior of existing controls. You can also hook up your own data to the GUI using a Data Model. - Creating assembling & publishing Web content
This getting started topic describes how to create, assemble, and publish Web content in the Content Manager Explorer user interface.