Styling XBlog
One of the biggest issues with using a 3rd party tool for your website is making it look like your website. With XBlog we wanted to make this as easy as possible. Here is how simple it is. Each view...
View ArticleXCentium Launches XBlog: Blog Module for Sitecore
XCentium’s new, user-friendly Sitecore blog module supports MVC and Web Form platforms, migrates existing WordPress blogs, and handles multiple blogs for a single Sitecore website. We are pleased to...
View ArticleSitecore : Configuring Email for Amazon’s SES
Recently I configured a Sitecore solution using Amazon’s SES (Send Email Service). There were two small changes I found that I needed to include in order to get it to work. The first error was, “The...
View ArticleDeveloping an application in both Web Forms and MVC
I recently had an opportunity to co-write an new application for Sitecore’s Marketplace. With this app we decided that we wanted to support both Web Forms and MVC environments. Sitecore started to...
View ArticleSitecore Hackathon 2015 – Time To Deliver
The Sitecore Hackathon 2015 is coming up fast. Once again I will be participating, but this time I will be working with a couple new teammates. Last event on January 24, 2014, I didn’t have anyone that...
View ArticleMy First Words: A Brain-Dump on my First Experience with SPEAK UI
I am wrapping up development on a Sitecore project that involved my first real experience with SPEAK UI. I’ll admit, at first I struggled. I struggled more with SPEAK than I had with anything in a...
View ArticleSimple Performance Tuning and Sitecore Counters – Sitecore Best Practices
The official Sitecore CMS Performance Tuning Guide (requires SDN access: v6.5, 7.0) has stated (since the dawn of time – or at least every version I’ve ever read) that the Memory Monitoring hook should...
View ArticleExtending Sitecore Commerce: Creating Order History Page in Sample MVC Site
This blog discusses how to extend the sample MVC storefront site that ships with Sitecore Comemerce 7.2. Sitecore released Sitecore Commerce 7.2 powered by Commerce Server, Sitecore Commerce Connect...
View ArticleHandling QueryString in Custom Item Resolver processor – MVC
On a recent project I was tasked with writing a custom item resolver in Sitecore. The goal was to translate http://domain/blog/tag/tag-name to http://domain/blog?tag=tag name. Since I had done this a...
View ArticleSitecore MVC Image or Text within Link Field renderer
Wrapping an Image or Text in a link field is a very common use case. In Sitecore WebForms this could be achieved by simply wrapping LinkField renderer around a text field or image field renderer, E.g....
View ArticleWindows X Feature Request (and Interim Solution): Wildcard HOSTS file entries
As a consultant building multiple web applications, especially solutions built with the Sitecore Experience Platform, I would spend too much time adjusting entries in my...
View ArticleCreating Rules for Personalization in Sitecore 7
Recently I had a client who was new to Sitecore come to me with a question. They had a 3rd party ad service that would insert all kinds of information into the URL, query stings mostly. With this...
View ArticleCheck out my first four Modules now in the Sitecore Marketplace
While delivering some recent training sessions I provided for a customer, I covered many of the areas where Sitecore is both customizable and extensible. And, if you are like me and like to explore all...
View ArticleUse the Fully Qualified Name When Using a Sitecore MVC Controller – Sitecore...
The Best Practice for using a Sitecore MVC Controller is to use the Fully Qualified Name and Assembly for the Controller. Hopefully Sitecore will add this to the Sitecore MVC Developer’s Reference...
View ArticleXCentium launches Gigya-Sitecore Connector
XCentium today announced that it has launched the Gigya-Sitecore Connector. With the Gigya-Sitecore integration by XCentium, you can easily embed Gigya’s Social Login, RaaS (Registration-as-a-Service),...
View ArticleDeploying Sitecore on Microsoft Azure
Overview Sitecore’s Customer Engagement Platform (Sitecore) is an enterprise class web content management system that provides an elegant, integrated solution for content management for websites,...
View ArticleSitecore Sheer UI to SPEAK
Sitecore introduced SPEAK a while back. The main aim is to provide a robust framework that aids in rapid Sitecore module development. But does it really do that? Or was Sheer UI good enough? In my...
View ArticleSitecore Presentation – Dynamically Changing Layout and Sublayouts
There are times when you need to temporarily change a Sitecore item’s layout. In our case, we had a multi-site solution which needed to have a fallback or standard presentation for cloned items that...
View ArticleIncrease your conversions by offering a personalized digital marketing...
Are your retail channels intelligent and profitable? Why do I care as an organization? The customer’s online shopping journey is evolving. Today’s consumers are looking for a more personalized online...
View ArticleDeploying Sitecore on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Overview Sitecore’s Customer Engagement Platform (Sitecore) is an enterprise class web content management system that provides an elegant, integrated solution for content management for websites,...
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