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…
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…
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…
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