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How To Safely Search For Images On The Web

By Alan Ballard  |  Friday, January 04, 2013 |  , ,  |  2 comments

Here's a great way to not fail when grabbing images off the web! Grabbing the first image you see from Google Image Search could be dangerous because it may be someone elses property, but CC Search is here to help.

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Umbraco Fans in North America: Roll Call!

By Jason Prothero  |  Tuesday, December 18, 2012 |   |  2 comments

If you are located in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico and use, sell, or build with Umbraco, please join us and tell us about yourself.  Then take the event interest survey and let us know what kind of events would interest you.  Then invite your Umbraco friends and colleagues to do the same.

If you are in Europe and have friends or colleagues in North America, give them a heads up about the site.  And in the future we would love any help, advice, or tips about putting on a Festival, Hack-a-thon, or other cool things we are all jealous of over here!

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New Fun Project: YouRock Stickers! Badges for real life.

By Jason Prothero  |  Friday, November 16, 2012 |  , , , ,  |  Leave comment

Ever wanted to give your team "badges" for doing the little things right and ultimately reaching the team goals? 

Now you can with You Rock Stickers!

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How to Fix Asp.net MVC Web Api HTTP PUT and DELETE requests failing

By Jason Prothero  |  Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |  , , ,  |  4 comments

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 being used. By default IIS 6 wouldn't allow the PUT or DELETE verbs to be used with the WebAPI app that we created.  Detailed inside is the solution I found.

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Umbraco 4.10.0

By Wesley Kos  |  Monday, November 12, 2012 |  , ,  |  Leave comment

Umbraco 4.10.0 is now released! I read a few of the blog posts collected a bit of information with I feel is useful in getting you started.

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It's Very Clear Mobile Is Here

By Rob Birdwell  |  Thursday, November 01, 2012 |  , , ,  |  2 comments

How does your site look on an iPhone, Windows Phone, iPad or Nexus Tablet?  If you're Ken Saul of Ultra-Pure Oils you can say "It looks great" - and so do his customers!  But many sites aren't set up to display nicely on mobile devices. Mobile and tablet devices are no longer the exception - they're the norm.

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ProWorks Team - A Nose For Creativity

By Rob Birdwell  |  Friday, October 19, 2012 |  ,  |  2 comments

Sometimes the technical problems we encounter require just a little more creativity!

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Business Sites That Grow With Your Business

By Rob Birdwell  |  Friday, October 19, 2012 |  , ,  |  Leave comment

A ProWorks, we build sites that not only look great, but also allow your business to grow!

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How To Create A Seamless Pattern In Photoshop

By Alan Ballard  |  Thursday, October 18, 2012 |  , ,  |  Leave comment

Hey Photoshop users, want to try out an easy technique for creating seamless patterns? This is one for the toolbox here! Follow along with this easy tutorial and you'll be a pattern creating MACHINE!

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How to Create Products and Categories in Commerce for Umbraco

By Jason Prothero  |  Thursday, October 11, 2012 |  , , , , ,  |  Leave comment

Looking for help using Commerce for Umbraco?  Here are a few screencasts to help content editors perform common tasks in the Commerce for Umbraco admin section.

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