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
Tag: Tridion
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
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
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
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