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Hey I'm Lee. My blog was put up to house useful nuggets I could refer back to, document my learning curves on new technologies and house tutorials I write for Umbraco and other .NET stuff.

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21Jan

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Is Responsive Web Design A Fad?

Over the past few months I have been doing a lot of reading up and watching of responsive web design tutorials. As I wanted to implement the technique into a few of the sites I have developed recently. But as I trawled the net for 'How to' guides and started to test sites I found (Including industry advocates) it got me thinking, and I started to think it could actually have a negative impact on your business. I am now a 10...

14Jan

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301 Redirect Multiple Domains In Umbraco

I thought I had already posted this up, but seems I'm going mental and hadn't.. If you have a client site in which the client insists on having tons of domains pointing at it, and you don't have access to ISAPI rewrite to handle your redirects - you can actually 301 redirect using the Umbraco UrlRewriting.config. Just set these up for each domain you need, the attribute values are pretty self explanatory. Obviously the virt...

12Jan

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nForum v1.5 Released

Finally! I have released the latest version of nForum… v1.5… You can download and install it via the nForum page below. http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/nforum Also the code is on CodePlex so you can download and customise (Or debug it!) however you need. Also for this version I have added the Umbraco site and database backup within the solution for the Umbraco install I used to create the package, and test i...

01Jan

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Any Tutorials You Want To See?

A big happy new year to you all … As its a new year, I have been trying to sort out a lot of my personal sites and one of the sites I'm getting into shape is this blog. Over the break, I have put up a few beginner targeted Umbraco based posts, but I'd like to mix it up and maybe do some more videos and a few more complex tutorials - So I thought I'd open it to the community and find out exactly what sorts of things you guys n' girls...

31Dec

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Umbraco Membership Templates

Creating a private/membership area in your Umbraco site really is a piece of cake - If you don't know how to restrict public access to a node (And its children) then I suggest you have a quick look through the ' Umbraco Editors Guide' for more in depth information. But in short, to create a private membership area you firstly need to make sure you have a 'member group' setup in members section (For the templates below I have create...

30Dec

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Simple Contact Form Template For Umbraco

Sometimes when creating a new site for a client or a personal site, you just need a simple and quick contact form that you can just plugin or easily extend. So below is a very simple template for you to use if you are looking for just that, its a usercontrol with a few styles and a couple of macro parameters. ASCX <%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="ContactForm.ascx.cs" Inherits="ContactForm" %> ...

29Dec

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Umbraco Image Helper Class

Its been a busy few months, so I have not had much time to blog but I have been building up a list of short and (hopefully) helpful little blog posts. I have been really getting into Umbraco Razor recently, and on a site we have just finished where we had a lot of images we were pulling out dynamically from the media section and they had to be resized differently. So I created this little image helper class which uses a ...

22Nov

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Extending The Google Maps Property Editor In Umbraco V5

In the previous blog post we created a fairly simple Google maps property editor, but as we all know when creating property editors/datatypes things are never as clean cut as that and you have the need for things like prevalues to configure you property editor/datatype and maybe even doing some sort of custom logic before Umbraco saves the values from your editor. So I thought even though the previous Google map property editor is...

21Nov

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Creating A Google Map Property Editor For Umbraco v5

If you want to follow this little tutorial then download the current V5 source by following my previous post, and get yourself set up and the source running. This post will focus more on the Umbraco fundamentals/code than the underlying JS code that makes the Google Map Geocode and Marker Move etc.. If you want more info on that then see the Google Map Post. As with most blog posts, I will explain things in my own way so th...

19Nov

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An Autocomplete Geocoding Google Map With Draggable Marker

While tinkering and trying to get a Google Map property editor working working for Umbraco v5, I actually ended up writing more JavaScript to get it working - And thought the code is actually pretty useful for any app and not just as an Umbraco DataType. So what does this actually do? Has an autocomplete text box that you can either choose from the location results, or just type in a postcode When you click find it takes the a...