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How to Add the New Twitter Cover Photo
Recently twitter updated the way your profile can appear. You may have noticed how some people have a photo or different background cover photo behind their profile picture or avatar and their info...
View ArticleHow to Create Products and Categories in Commerce for Umbraco
A while back I made a few screencasts to show how to perform some common content editing tasks in Commerce for Umbraco. I thought I'd share that with the rest of the world so others besides our...
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How To Create A Seamless Pattern In Photoshop
Recently I had the pleasure of creating a fun background pattern for 60East Technologies' new website. I stumbled across a techique for making a seamless repeating pattern and it went really well! So...
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Business Sites That Grow With Your Business
Most business web sites these days fall into one of three categories: Simple Business We used to call these "business card" sites, but these days even a simple business web site will have a rich set...
View ArticleProWorks Team - A Nose For Creativity
Just one of numerous examples of ProWorks' ingenuity and creativity in action!
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It's Very Clear Mobile Is Here
Does Your Website Support Tablet and Mobile Devices? If you're considering building a new web site for your business or an upgrade to your existing web site, one thing is for certain - your site will...
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Umbraco 4.10.0
New to Umbraco 4.10.0 is the integration of MVC. Instead of templates using WebForms you can use MVC views. To do this, in the file ~/config/umbracoSettings change the line...
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How to Fix Asp.net MVC Web Api HTTP PUT and DELETE requests failing
ASP.NET MVC 4 has a new feature called WebAPI which makes it much easier to create a REST API in ASP.NET. Unfortunately, I ran into one problem with IIS 6.0 that prevented the full REST spec from...
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New Fun Project: YouRock Stickers! Badges for real life.
Ever wanted to tell someone that they really helped you out or saved your day, but only knew their twitter account? Ever wanted to give your team "badges" for doing the little things right and...
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Umbraco Fans in North America: Roll Call!
Join the NAUUG and show the world that Umbraco is a force in North America! Umbraco in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico has been under the radar the past few years despite a reportedly large install base....
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How To Safely Search For Images On The Web
CC Search Need an image fast to use on a project? Well you don't want to just use your search engine to grab it, without checking some Creative Commons filters first. If you don't you could be...
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Awesome eBook of Umbraco Articles and Resources Available for Free!
Itching for some awesome Umbraco articles, tips, and how-tos? Want to read it on an airplane or in a place with no Wifi? Then check out the 24Days in Umbraco eBook/PDF! 24 Days in Umbraco is a...
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Why Umbraco, from a NON Tech Point of View
The Non-Tech Post: What is Umbraco and Why Should I Care? If you are proud that you even know what CMS stands for, then this is the blog post for you. (I provided a link just in case... no shame.) If...
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Umbraco 6: What's new?
I just got back from the Umbraco Masterclass in Seattle. I'm now a Level 2 certified Umbraco developer. Yay! During the training, we covered everything from the basics (e.g. What's a doctype?) to some...
View ArticleEncrypting your web.config
The Problem: We have a website which sends out automatic email notifications upon ordering an item. The problem is that the emails suddenly stopped. The Technologies: We are using Commerce 4 Umbraco...
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Don't be scared of Social Media, just don't be a jerk and wear the right pants
I hear all the time the fear and apprehension around entering the world of social media but you already know how to "do" Social Media, you just forgot. Have you ever gotten a new job, gone on a date,...
View ArticleUmbraco 6: Views, Partial Views, and Partial View Macro Files
Here's some handy info that can help you get started with the switch-over from the Umbraco Masterpages to the new Views. Check out Umbraco's Cheat Sheet First of all, check out this nifty cheat sheet...
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Umbraco 6.0.2 upgrade bug solution
We were developing some sites on umbraco 6.0.1. When version 6.0.2 was released with some great fixes, we went ahead and ran the provided upgrade script on our sites in developement. Everything...
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I was recently perplexed by the way Java updates were nagging at me. This is nothing new of course - been going on for years - and isn't java sort of "core" by now - I mean, I may not personally...
View ArticleEvent List Macro
Let's say you want a list of events on your home page. The following is an example about how this might be accomplished using Razor scripts. The Structure: Construct a collection of events to iterate...
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