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14 days ago
Like any Web Content Management System (WCM or CMS), the best way for a developer to evaluate Sitecore is to build a prototype using the product. The best way to learn Sitecore is to attend at least the Sitecore .NET Developer or Sitecore HTML Developer training (the latter focuses on XSL). If you choose HTML training, then you should know HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. If you choose .NET training, then you should also know XML, ASP.NET, C#, and Visual Studio. And it never hurts to know a little about Microsoft SQL Server. But first, schedule a live Web demo of the product with Sitecore. Do some research before attending training, working with the technology, or involving any information and system architects, users, business analysts, or other parties in the prototyping process. Spend as much time as you can afford reading about Sitecore. Check out the Sitecore Web site and the Sitecore Developer Network (SDN), especially the SDN forums. Manage your profile ...
35 days ago
Sitecore recently published a guide to Reusing and Sharing Data. “Sitecore developers should read this document to determine a strategy for reusing data on multiple pages of a Web site or sharing data to multiple managed Web sites and external applications.” I updated my post that links to the best Sitecore documentation.
35 days ago
With the release of CMS 6.2 (the release notes describe new features), Sitecore published the WebDAV Configuration Guide. “This document provides a technical overview and configuration details for the Sitecore Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) implementation. CMS administrators, architects, and developers should read this document before implementing WebDAV featutres in a Sitecore solution.” I updated my post that links to the best Sitecore documentation.
36 days ago
Sitecore recently published the Online Marketing Suite Cookbook. I updated my post that links to the best Sitecore documentation. “The Online Marketing Suite Cookbook contains instructions for marketers and content authors working with Sitecore Analytics. This guide contains step by step instructions on the key tasks involved in setting up and configuring the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite on your Web site. The topics covered include creating profiles, goals, and campaigns, as well as content profiling, multivariate tests, and using the Sitecore reports to analyze your analytics data.”
72 days ago
Update : Shared source project created: http://trac.sitecore.net/ItemNamingRules. With Sitecore CMS 6.1, you can use the rules engine to control item names. For example, you may want to enforce character limits in the names of items that correspond to URLs. For more information about the rules engine, see the the Rules Engine Cookbook on the Sitecore Developer Network. You may also want to read my previous post about the rules engine and conditional rendering. Sitecore supports at least five techniques to control item names: You can use use the InvalidItemNameChars, ItemNameValidation, and MaxItemNameLength settings in web.config to control all item names. See the comment above each setting in web.config for further details. The disadvantage of these settings in this context is that they apply to all items, when you might want rules only for the names of certain items. For example, you might want to allow spaces and other special characters in any item ...
