What is a Dashboard? A dashboard is a tool that presents all management KPIs (key performance indicators) and critical data points at a single place that helps in monitoring the health of the business or department. The dashboard simplifies the complex data sets by making use of data visualization, which in turn helps users to…
All technology, including websites, must grant barrier-free access to people with disabilities.For websites, that means meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 standards.WCAG requires web content to be: Perceivable: Everything can be perceived in more than one way. For example, if someone cannot see, written content can be read by a screen reader. Operable:…
Basically, the backend of any site created under UMBRACO open source has the name UMBRACO http://myweb/umbraco/ It is predictable, since all sites will have the same admin link. But it can be changed in a very simple way. Three easy steps to change the Umbraco Control Panel: 1. Change the umbracoPath app setting in the…
I passed my PMP exam on 23/11/2017 on my second try. It was a great experience to me and I have learned a lot from the PMBOK and PM PrepCast, so I would like to share my experience here with those who are currently preparing for the exam right now. I was approved to write…
Lately I discovered Packages in Umbraco CMS, for me It is a treasure, where we can find valuable things for our CMS. Umbraco packages are bits of software that can be uploaded into Umbraco to extend the functionality of your website.Umbraco has a great development community that develops and provides a number of really cool…
Sometimes we use xp_cmdshell in T-SQL to run console applications on a remote server. “xp_cmdshell” is an extended stored procedure provided by Microsoft and stored in the master database. This procedure allows you to issue operating system commands directly to the Windows command shell via T-SQL code. If needed the output of these commands will…
One of the major default data types in Umbraco is the Richtext Editor. The TinyMCE based wysiwyg editor. This is the standard editor used to edit any larger amount of text. The editor has a lot of settings, which can be changed under the developer section in “data types” / Richtext editor. The editor also…
Every time we start a new website, a question pops up “What CMS you want to use?” Many answers come out like “Hey! Use WordPress!” or “Hey! Use Umbraco open source to build the website!” etc… Although my blog is built on WordPress, but from the web developer point of view, I would prefer to…
1. Responsiveness Responsive, what is it? Briefly, this is the application of specific CSS to a web page, depending on the width of the screen. “Desktop” (> 1024px wide), tablet (1000px to 600px wide) and mobile (<600px wide). It’s a reference to develop sites that look nice at any size; desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone.…
Everyone deserves a form creator that’s as easy to use as Umbraco, so we built just that. Whether it’s a simple contact form or an advanced multi-step questionnaire that integrates with 3rd party services – it’ll be a breeze. 1. Intuitive User Interface Creating responsive forms is as easy as editing content in Umbraco and…
There are several ways to start up a CMS website using Umbraco open source. Previously, I was using the latest version for Umbraco manually. I used to go to Our Umbraco website and download the latest version, and start building up my website using the WebMatrix and rarely I was able to build up the…
Choosing a content management system (CMS) for your website can be a very difficult process that has you constantly changing your mind between the many different solutions available. However the first question you should be asking yourself before you consider any CMS is “What am I trying to achieve?” We always face a question with…
A multi-language site is a single website that’s reproduced and published in more than one language. Most of the content on the site is the same but is localized to reflect the language and culture of customers in various regions. As you can imagine, producing and maintaining a website with multiple language variants can be…
If you are building a new website, or upgrading a current website and you want to design your own URLs, it can be done easily using Umbraco. Using the umbracoUrlAlias property on a page in Umbraco gives you the ability to set up one or more different URLs for a single page. The page structure…
Previously, we used to spend a lot of time building a custom CMS website using standard development tools like C#.NET and SQL Server. Now things are much easier and we can build our own CMS in no time. I was introduced lately to a new open source content management known by “Umbraco”. Using this tool,…
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