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The Umbraco Diaries: Day 1

Wow. I’ve decided that I had to look at Umbraco. I’ve heard such positive things about it. My company was going to adopt it an our in-house CMS but decided at the last minute not to do so and I’ve never really continued any investigation since. However, after a short MSN discussion with a friend earlier today I decided to download the bad boy and have a look at what it can do. I’ll tell you what it can do!! After roughly an hour (including download and installation) I now have a pretty much

Enabling the script editor

This feature was introduced at codegarden 07 as a new feature in v3 but is was disabled in the release because of some issues with cross browser compatibility ( and maybe other bugs, …). I noticed that it works fine in firefox but don’t use it with ie. Before: After: Just locate the true .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #fffff

Umbraco 4.0 på IIS 7

Umbraco 4.0 på IIS 7 Posted by on July 3rd, 2008 Jeg er i fuld gang med at afprøve den nye Umbraco 4.0 beta1, men jeg er desværre stødt på problemer. Hvis du ikke har Niels Hartvig på messenger, ikke har manualen eller ikke har besøgt http://forum.umbraco.org, skal du selv finde ud af hvordan du kommer videre. Jeg har en IIS 7 på min Vista og jeg har oprettet et nyt website til Umbraco, hvis du prøver at køre Umbraco nu vil du få et par fejl: 1. HTTP Error 500.22 - Internal Server Error

Creating a youtube macro for umbraco (with xslt extension)

I got this request from Bernie. He wanted a way to insert youtube videos into the richtexteditor by only supplying the link to the video (like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruHQhNe-UM) When insert…

What's Next...

At first, I really hated it, but I wanted to learn it because an open source content management system called "Umbraco" uses it extensively. After working with it for a few weeks, I love it! XSLT isn't pretty, but it's powerful and ...

UK Umbraco meet has a map

As requested on the forum, we've got a map to try and work out where it should be placed, if you want to come along get yourself added: http://tinyurl.com/3oaf8x Instructions from Google: Adding and Editing Placemarks To add a placemark to your map: Create or open a map. Click . Your cursor changes into a placemark icon with an "X" crosshairs. The crosshairs indicate where the placemark will fall. Move the cursor to the appropriate location. If you want to dismiss this placemar

Adding a language selector to your multilingual umbraco site

Create mutlilingual sites with umbraco, there are several approaches in doing this, the one I use the most is to have multiple ‘top level’ nodes (I’ll make a screencast of this in a future post). So for each language you would have a top level node. The content tree would look like this: I would like to add a language selector on the site, a dropdown with all languages that will redirect to the selected langauge homepage. How to do this ? I’ll first add a new property to the top level

Adding a language selector to your multilingual umbraco site

Create mutlilingual sites with umbraco, there are several approaches in doing this, the one I use the most is to have multiple ‘top level’ nodes (I’ll make a screencast of this in a future post). So f…

Masterpages in Umbraco V4

Hello all I am currently looking into making my Creative Website Wizard package ready for V4 of Umbraco and with this I will move away from the OLD templating system to the NEW ASP.NET MasterPages sup…

Creating packages for umbraco, usercontrol that fires as last step of installation

Thanks to Per’s packager (which will be integrated in v4) creating packages for umbraco is a very simple thing. The only part that can get a little tricky is if you need to update the database, or one…

UK Umbraco meet up

In a previous post about CodeGarden 08, I asked people to get in touch if they'd be interested in a UK Umbraco meet up. I've had a fair few people get in touch so I think it's something worthwhile pursuing further. ...

Just a tiny XSLT tip

Umbraco Lightbox Gallery reading from a folder

There are many galleries available in one form or the other through the Umbraco forum. Probably the most commonly used one is that which ships with the Creative Web Specialist package. I have always…

Umbraco designer/programmer small tasks

Umbraco designer/programmer small tasks freelance project is offered at RentACoder. You will need to have Coder account before you place your bid. If interested, you can get your RentACoder account. In case you already have an account ...

Taking Umbraco V4 alpha for a test drive

A week ago we could all read that Umbraco V4 had been announced at CodeGraden08 in Copenhagen, great for them I thought, since at that time there were no links anywhere to be found, not even a screen …

Permalink for Using Umbraco Webservices with Perl

Using Umbraco Webservices with Perl Filed under: Umbraco, Perl - by Darren Ferguson @ 12:27 PM I had quite a few spam comments on my site that I wanted to get rid of. Without a content search option available in Umbraco, I decided to use the webservices to get a list of all blog comments. As a result of this, I have quite a nice example of how to access Umbraco via webservices with Perl. The example below will simply get all documents from Umbraco and print them to screen.

Permalink for Back online with Umbraco 3.05

Back online with Umbraco 3.05 Filed under: Umbraco - by umbraco_system @ 6:59 PM Wow, almost a year since my last post and loads of things have changed and happened Way too much to detail here all at once, but in preparation for codegarden - which I'll be attending - I thought I should get upgraded to Umbraco 3 and get my Blog back online I still need to fix the search and update my bio and CV but everything else should be pretty much working again I'll post again over the weekend when I'll b

CodeGarden08 Wrap Up

Whew! The last 5 days have been extremely full and extraordinarily productive. My head is full of new ideas and items to consider. The energy and intensity of the Umbraco Core/MVP group is almost overwhelming and the passion for Umbraco and all the possibilities it affords are apparent in the community. The community response to the newly introduced commercial aspects of Umbraco were surprisingly well received. The new Umbraco Store is bound to see a stream of product listings in the next

Umbraco Installation

Alright so here is part 1 of 5 of Guide to Umbraco as promised. The first part of the Umbraco Guide covers the installation of the product. When you are finished with this tutorial you will have a fully skinned and functional Umbraco install, without writing a line of code. NOTE: If you prefer print materials, please do so now as these articles will get a little long. There is a pretty clean print style associated with the site that eliminates most things other then the content itself.

Permalink for Copenhagen is beautiful

Copenhagen is beautifulWednesday, June 04, 2008 by Bob Just a quick blog post to let everyone know that Copenhagen is beautiful and we are having a great time. Caroline has been touring the city while I have been having a GREAT time at Codegarden08. I have been meeting some incredible friends and learning even more about the remarkable umbraco experience. Exciting new things with umbraco 4.0. A package coding contest, umbraco boost, nitros and more. Now that the conference has concluded, Caroli