Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m very sad to announce that January 14th will be my last full work-day with EXLRT. On January 17th, I’ll be joining Red Hat as a Senior Drupal Developer. So I’m not just leaving my company, I’m leaving a little … Continue reading
Tag: CMS
Headless doesn’t mean Clueless when it comes to your CMS
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Headless CMS” is all the rage these days, and for good reason: It’s easier to build the UI the way you want. Your front-end team doesn’t need to know anything about the CMS now, right? Wrong. Headless doesn’t mean clueless.
Structuring link HTML for a Tridion Schema
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the most part, good front-end code isn’t affected by the application that serves it. And, for the most part, good front-end code doesn’t need to be written specifically for that application. But there are some exceptions —like structuring the … Continue reading
Quick Tips for CSS (that scales) for a CMS
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s not that hard to write CSS. The basics of how the language works can be learned in 15 minutes. Most of the major properties and techniques for using them can be learned in a few days. You can learn … Continue reading
Four Things a Front-end Developer Should Know about Schemas in Tridion
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou’re a front-end developer. You’re writing for a component template. You hand off HTML for a back-end developer to write a view. The back-end developer looks at it, goes cross-eyed and starts muttering to himself. You explain it. He says, … Continue reading
7 Things a Front-end Developer Should Know about Tridion
Reading Time: 8 minutesSo, you’re a front-end developer, eh? And you’ve been told that you’ll be writing code, and that it’ll be moved into a Content Management System. Called Tridion. And you can’t find out where to download it because there’s not a … Continue reading
flexModal: a jQuery Plugin that a CMS will love
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a previous post, I talked about some general better practices for writing jQuery plugins that will play nicely in content management systems. Today, I’d like to introduce one such plugin: flexModal.
Tridion Pro Tip: Putting a Training Doc In Tridion(the Cool Way)
Reading Time: 4 minutesNot too long ago, I worked with Alex Klock on creating a Tridion GUI extension for a client. The GUI extension was for a document embedding service provided by Crocodoc1. Once I finished, I had to provide a training document … Continue reading
Going Bilingual in Tridion 2011 with Razor (or: When Text isn’t content)
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
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