956 Reasons Why Umbraco Rocks for Designers
Hold up, first of all, what is Umbraco? It's a Content Management System (CMS) for building and managing websites. We use it to make websites and our clients use it to edit and update thier web...
View ArticleMeet My Team: Alan Ballard - Talented Artist and Part-Time Viking
I have been here a year now and I have learned many new technologies, words, and even developed a taste for geek humor. Besides the technical "stuff" that I have immersed myself in, one thing I am...
View ArticleMeet My Team: Wesley "No! You Can't Have My T-Shirt" Kos
The Second Installment of Meet My Team I have been here a year now and I have learned many new technologies, words, and even developed a taste for geek humor. Besides the technical "stuff" that I have...
View ArticleMeet My Team: Rob Birdwell - MacGyver of The Standing Desk Revolution
Week Three of Meet My Team I have been here a year now and I have learned many new technologies, words, and even developed a taste for geek humor. Besides the technical "stuff" that I have immersed...
View ArticleHow to Display the Submitted Record from Umbraco Contour on the Thank You Page
Ever wanted to display the users submission from Umbraco Contour on a Thank You page, but didn't know how to access the API? Well, this post is for you. This could be adapted as a confirmation page...
View ArticleHow to Redirect the Umbraco Media Path to Another Location
Today we have a guest post from my cousin, David Prothero, who is now implementing Umbraco for his company.They recently figured out a solution to a problem that we hadn't had before so I asked him to...
View ArticleToday's Hours Report Bookmarklet for Basecamp Classic
We use Basecamp Classic to manage client projects and the hours that are associated with those projects. I like to have a little running report up on a pinned tab that displays my hours for today so...
View ArticleGet Your AngularJS Controllers Out of the Global Namespace
If you have learned AngularJS from the tutorials or documentation area on the AngularJS website, then you may be learning to setup your controllers in a way that pollutes your global namespace. The...
View ArticleDisabling Request Validation in Umbraco CMS
In a recent upgrade of a very old Umbraco CMS WebForms site to 6.x I found a trick with getting the request validation disabled on a template level instead of for the entire web site through the...
View ArticleProWorks Teams Up With Mindfly Design Studios for USDA Project
Umbraco Gold Partner and web development company ProWorks Corporation has teamed up with Washington-based company Mindfly Web Design Studios on a project for the Economic Research Service (ERS), an...
View ArticleThe Umbraco Advent Calendar is Back!
If you are an Umbraco developer, designer, or user you have to take a visit to the 24 Days In Umbraco website. Its an amazing collection of articles, tutorials, and tips on how to get the most out of...
View ArticleIE 11 doPostPack and JavaScript Errors
Recently we've been hearing from our clients and partners about trouble with Internet Explorer 11 and certain links not working on their web sites. Here are the typical conditions: the site uses .NET...
View ArticleProWorks is Proud to Sponsor the First North American Umbraco Festival
ProWorks is proud to be a sponsor at the first ever Umbraco Festival in North America this coming March! UWestFest will commence at the Excalibur Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 21,...
View ArticleHow to Pass Data to the Umbraco 7 dialogService on open()
If you're building a package for Umbraco 7 using AngularJS and you eventually find yourself needing to use the dialogService, there is an undocumented parameter that may be of some help. I found...
View ArticleHow to find if Umbraco 7 Debugging is Enabled in AngularJS or Javascript in...
When creating a new functionality in the Umbraco 7 backoffice such as a property editor or custom section, it is sometimes necessary to print out some debugging information to verify that the models...
View ArticleGuide for setting up teamcity for umbraco development
TeamCity is an awesome tool for automating builds, deploys, and tests. For each of our projects, we might have many developers/designers working away on a site. We needed a way for our dev site to...
View ArticleTeamCity and Web Deploy: Silent unlogged failure
C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\7f00d1c4099cfbe0\src\TestSite.Umbraco\TestSite.Umbraco.csproj(3364, 3): error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Site Screen Reader Ready
With all the improvements in the Web Design in the last couple years it’s easy to forget to make your site accessible to screen readers. Thankfully screen readers have a couple of tricks up their...
View ArticleDeploying contour forms via courier
We built a Courier extension that allows us to deploy Contour forms! We based it off of this source. It is pretty neat. Here is the source. The plugin could use a little bit more love but it is doing...
View ArticleProWorks at uWestFest '15 - the Umbraco North America Conference
ProWorks is proud to sponsor, attend, and speak at uWestFest '15! uWestFest is an Umbraco conference for those of us here in North America. Will you be there? Then go say "Hi" to Loyan Roylance,...
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