Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the last few months, I’ve been doing a substantial amount of front-end work on SDL’s Media Manager tool. While you can find a pretty decent amount of information on Tridion via blogs and stack exchange, you won’t find much … Continue reading
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Responsive Design is Not the (complete) Answer
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the last year or so, “Responsive Design” has become quite the buzzword. It’s not just industry jargon or a little article on A List Apart anymore. Project managers, business analysts, salesmen and marketing executives are tossing around the term … Continue reading
Fighting a Lift and Shift Project with Tridion as Your Weapon
Reading Time: 7 minutesRecently I was given a web project— but not just any type of web project. The kind we hate most. The one that’s best-labeled a “future awful idea”. The one developers will try to kill —with fire. The kind of project … Continue reading
Architecting the CSS in a Tridion Implementation (How to keep the hippies from winning)
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a previous post that I wrote, I talked about living the web developer’s fantasy of being told, “be as cutting edge as you want”, and how Joe Shirley (a fellow Tahzooligan) and I decided to use all the nice … Continue reading
Using Razor Mediator with Tridion and Media Manager to Annoy Clients…less
Reading Time: 3 minutesI recently had a client with a Media Manager license ask to have it set up to work with their cloud-based instance of Tridion 2011. Media Manager is a brand-new tool to me and I did entirely too much learning … Continue reading
Make a Debugging TBB for Tridion 2011 using Razor Mediator
Reading Time: 4 minutesFolks that work with me know that I’m not a super-awesome programmer; I’m a front-end guy who dables with programs. I’m way more comfortable telling you what went wrong with your CSS in Internet Explorer 8 than what happened with … Continue reading
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
The More You Know: Tridion 2011 and Keywords
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m a child of the 80’s. Every Saturday morning, between Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, and GI-Joe I’d catch at least two or three Public Service Announcements from NBC where they’d teach me about bullying or doing my homework, and … 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
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