First Time at uWestFest 2016
Learn about Catherine Stevens' experience at uWestFest, the North America Umbraco conference.…
Must Have Umbraco Packages and Techniques - Our uWestFest '16 Presentation
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.…
Let's Make Awesome 3D Fractals
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?…
Changing Umbraco Back Office URL
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.…
Changing the sort order of default Umbraco tabs
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.…
Simple and Cool Use for the nuPickers Umbraco Package for v7
Want to create a quick drop down list of some JSON data in Umbraco? Take a look at this quick walk-through.…
New Umbraco v7 Package: Dialog Expander
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.…
New Umbraco Package: Inline HTML Help Label
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.…
Deploying contour forms via courier
We built a Courier extension that allows us to deploy Contour forms!…
How To Make Your Site Screen Reader Ready
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.…
