Its been about a month since the Umbraco HQ and key community members made the tough decision to stop development of version 5 and refocus on version 4. By the end of the conference It was clear that there was renewed commitment to the core and project from the community. Lots of people were willing to help and asking how to contribute. Now that we are a month away from CodeGarden, how are things going?…
I often wonder when I see a compelling design, what the process was to make it. Was it just born that way or did it go through many bumps and turns to get there? In our case, bringing Paul Vandevelder's vision of "Savages and Scoundrels" to life certainly was an interesting evolution! Here's an insight to our process of reinventing Mt. Rushmore for the home page of Paul's new website.…
ProWorks has created a Commerce for Umbraco Sample Website and Starter Kit that you can download and try out for yourself! This site is similar to the starter site the ProWorks uses to create e-commerce sites.…
I just stumbled across a new site that would have been very useful in getting up to speed with XSLT and XPATH not only when getting started with Umbraco, but also with Sitecore. It's Pimp My XSLT by Chriztian Steinmeier (@greystate). My favorite fun tool on the site is an XPath Axes Visualizer...…
Most SEO experts say that when you have two or more domains or URLs that have duplicate content, then Google will penalize you. Google and SEO experts recommend that you use 301 redirects to tell search engines that you have duplicate content and to forward to the correct domain or url.…
Recently we upgraded an Umbraco 4.0.3 website to Umbraco 4.5.2 and found that the 'Yet Another Media Picker 4' package isn't supported in 4.5.2. Unfortunately, simply selecting Media Picker as the new type isn't going to work because the YAMP4 stored its media id in the NText field in the database instead of as an Integer. Yikes! Database deep dive...here we go!…
Want to know how to create a blog post in Umbraco using the Blog 4 Umbraco package? Just follow these steps..…
This is a series of notes and what I could cobble together from various Umbraco upgrade articles and sources. I also found a few issues that weren't documented by anyone that gave me some grief. I'll likely add any 4.7 specific items as well when I get a chance to test this process with that version. I've found that you may want to upgrade from 4.0.x to 4.5.2 then to 4.7 because the upgrade install script didn't seem to run in the 4.6.1 upgrade I performed. Basically, the database wasn't updated properly when I went straight to 4.6.1. My Notes...…
What's the Objective? 1. Earn TRUST - how important are relationships to your business? 2. Merit CREDIBILITY - how do you prove expertise? 3. Demonstrate you CARE - do you care enough to share? 4. Invite FEEDBACK - are phone email enough for your customers? 5. Grow your...…
The Custom Player allows you to create a customized player that you can add to your website or blog. YouTube provides a nice easy to use one-page wizard to show one of your playlists, favorites, or your own videos. Here is an example of a custom player that is set to play a specific playlist...…
