Recently on a few of my projects, we’ve been discussing how to further enhance the content authoring experience for users.
Posts Tagged ‘BrainJocks’
Experience Editor error strikes again!
“After parsing a value an unexpected character was encountered: {. Path ‘scLayout’…
Site Clusters – Part 4: Renderings shmenderings; or why you should care about Shared and Final layout
A critical portion of understanding Site Clusters is wrapping your head around Shared and Final layout, and understanding their impact on your assembly.
Site Clusters – Part 3: Owning your language architecture
When we talk about Site Clusters — as you hopefully read in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series — we’re referring to the localization strategy for translating a website from one localized language to many other localized languages. Let’s imagine you have a website which you want to distribute to all of North America.
Optimize your images in Sitecore with PowerShell Extensions + Kraken or TinyPNG
The solution I want to show you today involves optimizing images in Sitecore with PowerShell and TinyPNG. It allows for tremendous file size reduction with minor or nonexistent degradation in visual clarity at high resolutions.
Site Clusters – Part 2 – Getting Started
The 2nd post in our Site Clusters series covers how to get started with this localization strategy–creating multiple websites that share 1 content tree. To recap – a Site Cluster is a simple way to create multiple websites that share a single content tree.
How to Extend SCORE Components with Custom Functionality
SCORE’s Bootstrap UI layer delivers core functionality for the most commonly used components in web development. When the core offering does not satisfy your requirements, though, one option may be to extend SCORE components with custom functionality.
Site Clusters in Sitecore – Part 1
We often create multilingual websites using Sitecore’s powerful CMS. Sitecore has a great solution for multilingual content. Each item in the content tree can include a number of item versions, and each item version can be delivered in a different language, so translation of content is simple and straightforward. Well, not exactly. These item versions […]
Toolset for the Elite Web Developer
Remember the good ol’ days when you were learning how to code, and all that mattered was getting the code to compile and making sure the site rendered what you expected? You probably tried to keep your code organized and readable; after all, you had to be able to understand what you wrote. Maybe you […]
Crafting an Interactive Timeline with SCORE Components
With SCORE, one of our overriding goals is to minimize the complexity and development effort involved in building Sitecore websites. In most cases, you can use a series of SCORE components to build a complicated UI element, using advanced CSS and JavaScript techniques to completely transform them. One such situation that I recently tackled was […]
Bulk Manipulating the Language of Content
If you want to bulk manipulate by moving content from one language to another, SCORE comes with a language manipulation feature that can help. On the flip side, if you want to remove languages from your system, you can use PowerShell to automate this. Imagine that our site is currently in English with an en […]