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  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Nov 19, 2012

    New Alloy templates package for EPiServer 7 is a good example of building adaptive site and using new EPiServer features like shared blocks. It implements custom content area rendering to arrange blocks in rows and fill all available space dependi...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Nov 17, 2012

    When building EPiServer websites with ASP.NET MVC the LinkURL property doesn't do us much good. Here's a couple of MVC-compatible ways for getting the URL for a page. Pretty much since the dawn of time, or at least since the Finnish heavy metal ba...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Nov 17, 2012

    Utilize ASP.NET MVC's display templates to customise how EPiServer's PropertyFor method renders properties. When building a site with EPiServer CMS 7 and ASP.NET MVC the standard way of rendering a property is to use the PropertyFor helper method....

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Nov 15, 2012

    This is just a quick tip for making debugging code using categories easier. You’ll find the admin GUI here: Find the line displaying the category names, and change it to this: Now you’ll see the IDs of all categories, making your code a lot more...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Nov 14, 2012

    ASP.NET MVC is largely built on conventions for controllers, models, and views. However, I prefer tweaking these conventions a bit for EPiServer 7 sites to separate block views from page views.

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Nov 14, 2012

    ASP.NET MVC is largely built on conventions for controllers, models, and views. However, I prefer tweaking these conventions a bit for EPiServer 7 sites to separate block views from page views. Building a web site on EPiServer 7 using ASP.NET MVC,...

  • Posted on: Nov 12, 2012
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    Note: There is an updated version of this blog post for EPiServer 7.5 here . In this fourth and last blog post in my series on how to extend the user interface in EPiServer 7 we will take a look how we can build a more advanced editorial widget. W...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Nov 12, 2012

    Downloadable and annotated source code for a ready-to-use search page using EPiServer Find. Although EPiServer Find can be used for many things on an EPiServer 7 site, the most common scenario is probably free text search pages and while there’s...