Reading Time: 7 minutesIn a current project, we have a website that’s in both French and English which we’re transferring into Tridion 2011, using Razor Mediator. This is not my first bilingual website, and it definitely isn’t my first Razor project, either. However, … Continue reading
Category: Web
I’m a web developer and a consultant. Almost everything here is web related. Maybe I’m talking about a CMS, CSS, or UX or UI. Or maybe it’s about web browsers and HTML5.
Project SpaceKittens.org
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, yesterday while I was on a call, demoing something to a client, there was a Skype conversation going on in the other window. And though I explained I wouldn’t be able to respond to what was going on in … Continue reading
Congrats Alex Klock, for a well-earned award from SDL Tridion
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just want to publicly say, “congratulations” to my fellow coworker and code-monkey, and Coded Weapon, Alex Klock. Alex was recently given the SDL Tridion MVP Award. This is a well-earned award and Alex should be very proud to have … Continue reading
The Problems of a Lift and Shift CMS project (and why clients should stop asking for them)
Reading Time: 10 minutesEvery CMS implementation is different, but you can generally categorize them into two major groups, regardless of the details: New site or Lift ‘n Shift. If you’re unfamiliar with the phrase “Lift and Shift”, it’s where we take an existing … Continue reading
SDL Tridion Razor Mediator: Ternary Operators
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt was about two weeks into a project at Tahzoo that I had started in June that I made a discovery that rocked my world: the ternary operator. I think it was my coworker and one of my leads, Piti … Continue reading
Clever CSS Tricks: Debugging HTML and CSS with Generated Content and Pseudo Elements
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust this morning I had a small conundrum where I was trying to debug some HTML and CSS that I had written. Specifically, I was trying to figure out where some of my wrappers were, and how some alt and … Continue reading
SDL Tridion Razor Mediator: Some Handy Keyword functions
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve recently finished a big project with Tahzoo that runs on Tridion 2011 and uses Razor Mediator. There’s a growing number of Tridion Razor Mediator implementations out there, but this one was a tad different for a few reasons. For … Continue reading
CSS for a CMS: Adapting to what the content author puts on the page
Reading Time: 5 minutesWorking in Content Management System (CMS) implementations has its challenges. While some of those challenges are in the application itself, many can be with the content authors. Content authors expect a certain amount of flexibility in how they can add … Continue reading
CSS3: Structural Pseudo-Class Patterns
Reading Time: 4 minutesCSS3 offers a ton of brand new ways that you can select elements in ways we’ve never thought of before. Today I want to focus on exclusively the structural pseudo-classes, which are ways of selecting elements based on the document … Continue reading
HTML5, SDL Tridion, and a dab o’ jQuery
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt Tahzoo, we pretty much shoot for HTML5 websites 100% of the time; the only time the project isn’t HTML5 is if the client explicitly says so. We have a current client whose HTML5 site also required some fun Ajax … Continue reading