We focused on the Content Editor experience and how we as Umbraco developers and designers could make their lives easier. Some of the things we presented were out of the box in Umbraco and some were packages that enhance the Content Editor experience.…
Mandelbulb 3D is a sweet freeware fractal program that turns fractals into 3D spaces that you can explore, tweak, build upon, render in high-resolution, and share! Have a look-see why dont'cha?…
Umbraco comes out-of-the-box with the backoffice URL set to www.mywebsite.com/umbraco. We wanted to see if we could change the /umbraco part, so that we could use proworks.com/umbraco as a content page. This post walks you through what we did to make it work.…
We have a couple of projects where we wanted to gain more control over the sort order of some of the default Umbraco tabs like "Properties" or "Child items". Although I don't know of a way to do this through the Umbraco backoffice or with configuration, it is suprisingly easy to write some custom code to handle this.…
Want to create a quick drop down list of some JSON data in Umbraco? Take a look at this quick walk-through.…
This package is a simple UI enhancement to the v7 right-side dialog flyours to allow a content editor to make the dialog bigger or back to normal. It just gives a bit more room for dialog selections and views. With the new Document Types as grid editors, it can help to have a little extra room when its available.…
This package adds a new property editor that allows you to show HTML in your content pages as properties. Why is this cool? Well, we use it to provide inline help to the content editors. It is HTML so it can display images or links to more information to content editors.…
We built a Courier extension that allows us to deploy Contour forms!…
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 sleeves to help you make your site sound as pretty as it looks.…
Setting up TeamCity on a new server can be frustrating. Every time I try it, I run into a new issue. The latest of these issues was missing .targets files. The first missing targets file, Microsoft.WebApplication.targets, resulted in all sorts of errors. The second missing .target file, Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets, resulted in silent, unlogged failure. This is how we resolved them.…
