I received confirmation from Charlie Arehart, the online ColdFusion Meetup organizer, that I'll be giving both of my BFusion presentations on CFMeetup. So the good news is if you won't be able to attend BFusion/BFlex this year, then at least you'll still be able to see my presentations. However, they won't be "hands-on," which will hopefully allow me to trim my 90-minute presentations down to the typical 60-minute mark we've grown accustomed to on CFMeetup.

So, if you're interested, please mark your calendars!

Getting Started with Mura CMS

November 12, 2009, 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern

Looking for a ColdFusion-powered, open source content management system? Drop in and learn how to have a site up and running in less than sixty minutes!  Within one hour, I'll walk through each of these steps to help you get started using Mura CMS:

• Installing Mura CMS
• Creating your first site
• Creating your first form
• Creating your first Mura component
• Setting up navigation
• Creating a custom 404 page
• Exploring built-in features & objects
• Exploring Mura templates & themes

Integrating Your Custom Design with Mura CMS

December 3, 2009 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern

Tired of trying to shoe-horn your custom design into someone else's content management system? Drop in and learn how to fully integrate your custom CSS and HTML with Mura CMS, a comprehensive, ColdFusion-powered, open source content management system. In less than sixty minutes, I'll attempt to cover:

• Exploring Mura templates & themes
• Integrating your custom CSS & HTML
• Creating Mura components
• Creating Feeds/Indexes
• Creating Custom Feeds/Indexes

*If you haven't already done so, it might behoove you to catch part one, "Getting Started with Mura CMS."

Listed below are outlines of the sessions I'll be presenting at BFusion 2009:

1. Getting Started with Mura CMS

Intermediate Track, hands-on, 90-minutes

• Installing Mura CMS
• Creating your first site
• Creating your first form
• Creating your first Mura component
• Setting up navigation
• Creating a custom 404 page
• Exploring built-in features & objects
• Exploring Mura templates & themes

2. Integrating Your Custom Design with Mura CMS

Intermediate Track, hands-on, 90-minutes

• Exploring Mura templates & themes
• Integrating your custom CSS & HTML
• Creating Mura components
• Creating Feeds/Indexes
• Creating Custom Feeds/Indexes

Software Requirements / Files

Attendees will be required to have the following installed on their computers:

• Adobe® ColdFusion® (preferably 8.0.1+) or Railo (should also work with Open BlueDragon, but I haven't tested it.)
• Local web server such as IIS or Apache
• Database server such as Microsoft®SQL Server® (2000+), MySQL® (version 3.0+), Oracle (version 10G), or H2
• Latest build of Mura CMS
  • Session 1 attendees: Do not install Mura CMS. We will do this together during the session.
  • Session 2 attendees: If you do not attend Session 1, you will need to install Mura CMS prior to the session and create a few pages.
• If attending Session 2, please download the free FreshMedia 1.0 template from Styleshout.com. Preview the template »