http://world.episerver.com/ http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Benefitting-From-CSS-Based-Design/ Introduction When creating content for the Web, adhering to Web accessibility guidelines is becoming increasingly important. While accessibility is mainly concerned with making the content available to anyone, regardless of any disabilities, using the recommended methods often yield benefits that go above and beyond that. Content is accessible to all users, including people with disabilities.... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Benefitting-From-CSS-Based-Design/ Tue, 29 May 2007 14:18:00 GMT Subject Configuration Installing and upgrading Editor Administrator Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Configuring-the-Cache-in-Multi-Server-Scenarios/ This article applies to EPiServer CMS 4.61 and later. This article describes how to configure multiple EPiServer installations to contact each other when changes to the cache occur. The concept of forwarding cache invalidations is called cache listeners. Important! The cache listener support requires Web Services to communicate. Make sure Web Services are accessible before you follow this... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Configuring-the-Cache-in-Multi-Server-Scenarios/ Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:21:00 GMT Subject Configuration Web site development Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Creating-and-Using-a-Workflow-in-EPiServer-CMS-5-R1/ Contents Introduction Creating the Workflow Adding an Activity Adding and Enabling the Workflow in EPiServer CMS 5 Introduction The process of creating a workflow in Visual Studio, deploying it to EPiServer CMS 5 and then registering it is easy. In this guide we will create a simple workflow that assigns a task to a group of users whenever a page is created in a specific node in the... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Creating-and-Using-a-Workflow-in-EPiServer-CMS-5-R1/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:00:00 GMT Subject Web site development Workflow Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS 5 5 R1 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Deploying-from-Development-to-Public-Site/ There are two basic installations of EPiServer CMS available today, the development installment and the public site (manager installation). The common practice is to work with EPiServer CMS from a developer installation with Visual Studio and continuously update the live site with new and reworked dll’s and templates. The process of deploying a Visual Studio project to a live site is not... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Deploying-from-Development-to-Public-Site/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:56:00 GMT Web site development Developer Beginner EPiServer CMS 5 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Did-you-know-that-there-is-a-built-in-statistics-function-in-Edit-mode/ In EPiServer CMS it is possible to activate a statistics function that editors have access to directly from Edit mode. The statistics function is included in a standard EPiServer CMS installation from version 4.61. http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Did-you-know-that-there-is-a-built-in-statistics-function-in-Edit-mode/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:18:00 GMT Editorial functions Editor Beginner Intermediate EPiServer CMS 5 4 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Dynamic-Content--Greater-Freedom-and-Efficiency-For-Editors/ Are you often feeling guilty about not having the time to supervise your Web site to make sure all information is consequent and correct? Maybe you’ve discovered that some pages give certain information about the company while other pages say something entirely different? These are some of the issues I run into during my work as Webmaster at EPiServer AB. EPiServer CMS 5 R2 Delivers Dynamic... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Dynamic-Content--Greater-Freedom-and-Efficiency-For-Editors/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:04:00 GMT Integration Editorial functions Content production Editor Administrator EPiServer CMS 5 Main Product 5 R2 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Edit-Images-Directly-From-the-EPiServer-UI/ The majority of all Web sites are packed with interesting and rich texts and images. The saying goes "A picture says more than a thousand words" and in most cases I find this to be true. The text and how well it is written is the most important aspect when it comes to keeping your visitors on the Web, but a good image can surely boost the message. Image Tools For me, as a long time user of... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Edit-Images-Directly-From-the-EPiServer-UI/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:45:00 GMT Subject Content production Audience Editor Classification Beginner Product EPiServer CMS 5 5 R2 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Migration-Tool/ A pre-release of the much sought after EPiServer Migration Tool is now available! http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Migration-Tool/ Thu, 15 May 2008 14:57:00 GMT Installing and upgrading Administrator Developer Intermediate EPiServer CMS 5 5 SP2 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Farewell-EPiFields-Hello-Dynamic-Content/ An extensive website contains hundreds, sometimes thousands of pages. Certain pieces of information will be the same regardless of what page you are on. This could for instance be a label with the current users name, todays date, the current time or perhaps an image randomly selected from a preset cycle. To avoid having to update identical types of information on all these pages EPiServer... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Farewell-EPiFields-Hello-Dynamic-Content/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:40:00 GMT Integration Developer Beginner EPiServer CMS 5 Main Product 5 R2 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Creating-custom-properties-in-EPiServer-CMS-5/ This article describes how to create custom properties in EPiServer CMS 5. The article is based on the EPiServer CMS SDK documentation, EPiServer CMS knowledge base, EPiServer CMS 5 source code and forum postings. What is a property? A single page in EPiServer CMS 5 contains properties. A property is a part of the page which contains data of specific types. There are several predefined... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Creating-custom-properties-in-EPiServer-CMS-5/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:02:00 GMT Subject Web site development Editorial functions Audience Developer Classification Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS 5 5 R1 5 SP1 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/How-to-Refer-to-an-EPiServer-Page/ There is often a need to refer to a given page in a site. For example, on each page of the site you may want to have a footer with a link to a page that describes the site's usage of cookies. This article discusses several ways to accomplish that in EPiServer.  Note that this kind of linking is different than linking to pages in the navigation menus since those links are created by traversing all... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/How-to-Refer-to-an-EPiServer-Page/ Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:40:00 GMT Subject Web site development Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Hundreds-of-results-are-good-but-please-let-me-find-the-top-three/ As search evolves more and more users discover that the simplest way to find information on a site is by using its search function. In this article I will list important aspects when deciding which search engine to use and how to customize it to deliver relevant hits on your site. Beware that this is not a traditional SEO article but instead focuses on internal search were the search engine... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Hundreds-of-results-are-good-but-please-let-me-find-the-top-three/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:00:00 GMT Subject Web site development Usability and accessibility Content production Audience Editor Administrator Developer Classification Beginner http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Implementing-Filters-in-EPiServer-CMS/ This technical article describes filters and how to implement them in EPiServer. What is a Filter? A filter is a general mechanism in EPiServer that is used to manage information in listings. As a developer, you can construct your own filters, which can then be used in conjunction with listings to display content in accordance with the specified requirements. A filter has three primary... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Implementing-Filters-in-EPiServer-CMS/ Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:33:00 GMT Subject Web site development Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Integrating-EPiServer-CMS-5-with-Microsoft-SharePoint--user-examples-and-benefits/ Do you have Microsoft Office SharePoint for document management in your organization, and want to benefit from the EPiServer CMS easy way of publishing content to the Web? This article explains the basic concept of using EPiServer CMS in combination with SharePoint. User scenarios and examples are presented, a high-level technical background is given and benefits are discussed. Note that the... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Integrating-EPiServer-CMS-5-with-Microsoft-SharePoint--user-examples-and-benefits/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:48:00 GMT Subject Integration Extending EPiServer CMS Audience Editor Administrator Developer Classification Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS 5 EPiServer SharePoint Connector http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Link-Management-in-EPiServer-CMS-5-R1-Under-the-Hood/ Background Story Content in EPiServer 4 is stored as HTML in the database, similar to what you see in the editor with some server-side tweaks to correct formatting. To visualize the concept we will look at a simple HTML sample that you may find stored in EPiServer 4:img src=”/upload/robothund. gif” />a href=”/templates/page. aspx? id=3”>Take me homea> If you installed EPiServer in a virtual... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Link-Management-in-EPiServer-CMS-5-R1-Under-the-Hood/ Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:00:00 GMT Subject Web site development Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS 5 5 R1 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Benefits-of-using-WebDAV-in-EPiServer-CMS-UPDATED/ Introduction Wouldn’t  it be great to be able to be able to manage your documents and images directly in Windows Explorer, instead of having to open the EPiServer CMS file manager to upload documents and images? This is possible in EPiServer CMS 5, using the WebDAV technique. This article deals with the benfits of using WebDAV to manage files with Windows Explorer in EPiServer CMS 5. What is... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Benefits-of-using-WebDAV-in-EPiServer-CMS-UPDATED/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:47:00 GMT Subject Integration Editorial functions Content production Audience Editor Administrator Classification Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS 5 5 R1 5 SP1 5 SP2 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Membership-and-Roles-in-EPiServer-CMS-5/ Contents Introduction Available Membership and Role Providers Configuration Creating Users and Groups Virtual Roles Predefined Virtual Roles in EPiServer CMS 5 Creating Your Own Provider Introduction EPiServer CMS 5 uses the built-in Membership and Role provider feature in ASP. NET. This feature was introduced with ASP. NET 2.0 and exposes a pluggable authentication and authorization... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Membership-and-Roles-in-EPiServer-CMS-5/ Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:00:00 GMT Subject Configuration Installing and upgrading Web site development Audience Administrator Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Modal-Dialogs-in-the-EPiServer-UI-for-non-IE-Browsers/ Contents Creating a Modal Dialog The CreateDialog Method Example The way modal dialogs are created and opened in EPiServer has changed in EPiServer CMS 5. Previous versions of EPiServer made use of Microsoft Internet Explorer specific code to open modal dialogs. We have not removed this code from /Util/javascript/common. js but when developing for the UI in EPiServer CMS 5 we recommend... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Modal-Dialogs-in-the-EPiServer-UI-for-non-IE-Browsers/ Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:31:00 GMT Subject Web site development Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Module-Packaging-in-EPiServer-CMS/ If you have installed the new demo package available on EPiServer World, you have already used the new module installation feature in the EPiServer CMS Manager. This feature is rather new, and in my opinion one of the coolest things in EPiServer CMS 5. Introduction You need the latest version of the EPiServer CMS Manager to make everything work flawlessly. Installing pre-packaged EPiServer... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Module-Packaging-in-EPiServer-CMS/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:00 GMT Subject Configuration Installing and upgrading Web site development Extending EPiServer CMS Audience Developer Classification Intermediate Third-party issues Product EPiServer CMS 5 5 R1 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Performance-Tuning-and-Optimization-of-EPiServer-CMS/ There are many factors to consider when tuning the performance of your EPiServer CMS site. This article deals with common pitfalls when optimizing EPiServer CMS for better performance. http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Performance-Tuning-and-Optimization-of-EPiServer-CMS/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:25:00 GMT Subject Configuration Audience Developer Classification Intermediate General technical Product EPiServer CMS 5 5 R1 5 SP1 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Preparing-for-EPiServer-CMS-5-R1-today/ Contents Introduction Minimizing Migration Impact Upgrade to 4.61 Rewrite to use ASP. NET 2.0 Verify 3rd Party Modules and Add-ins Breaking Changes Introduction Going from EPiServer 4. x to EPiServer 5 is not an upgrade. The API is not 100% backwards compatible, and you also have to move from . NET 1. x/2. x to 3.0, which will break a few things in your EPiServer application. This... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Preparing-for-EPiServer-CMS-5-R1-today/ Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:00:00 GMT Subject Configuration Web site development Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS 5 5 R1 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Search-is-more-than-just-search-with-SiteSeeker-in-CMS-5/ A lot of web sites do not benefit from their users’ involvement when they search. A common example of this is when web sites employ global search engines to search within their own content. This is like handing away business opportunities, attention, clicks, or whatever is important to you and your website, because search is so much more than just providing a search box to the user. These are the... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Search-is-more-than-just-search-with-SiteSeeker-in-CMS-5/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:04:00 GMT Subject Web site development Integration Audience Editor Developer Classification Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS 5 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Stylesheet-Picker-in-Edit-Mode/ I started out writing a small sample on how to add a dropdown list in EPiServer but ended up with a bit more. http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Stylesheet-Picker-in-Edit-Mode/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:35:00 GMT Web site development Developer Beginner 5 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/The-Output-Cache---When-and-Why/ This article applies to EPiServer CMS 4.61 and later. EPiServer provides the ability to cache output data depending on settings in the web. config file of the site. Correctly used this can greatly speed up page requests since the page requested is stored as static html, thereby liberating the server cpu from the tiresome work of putting together a dynamic page from all the bits and pieces that... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/The-Output-Cache---When-and-Why/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:00:00 GMT Subject Configuration Web site development Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Tips-for-the-Unified-File-System/ Contents Always Create a "System" Share Secure the Special "Pages" Folder Create an MS Indexing Service Catalog for your Site Over the years I've come to learn a few things about the EPiServer UnifiedFileSystem (UFS from now on), some the easy way, but most the hard way. The following is a list of my recommendations for when setting up the UFS in a new site. Always Create a "System"... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Tips-for-the-Unified-File-System/ Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:48:00 GMT Subject Configuration Installing and upgrading Web site development Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Using-Vista-Gadgets-to-Extend-a-Web-Site-to-the-Desktop/ The architecture of a Windows Sidebar gadget is surprisingly simple, it’s a little browser window that you populate with a mini-site built on standard HTML, stuff we already know. Distribution is as simple as zipping the mini-site and changing the extension to . gadget, upon installation it gets extracted to C:\Users\\appdata\local\microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets. An easy way to test your... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Using-Vista-Gadgets-to-Extend-a-Web-Site-to-the-Desktop/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:21:00 GMT Subject Web site development Extending EPiServer CMS Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/What-is-a-listing-and-how-can-it-be-used-in-EPiServer-CMS/ What is a listing and how is it used in EPiServer CMS? http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/What-is-a-listing-and-how-can-it-be-used-in-EPiServer-CMS/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:34:00 GMT Subject Editorial functions Content production Audience Editor Classification Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS 5 http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Vista-and-IIS7-as-a-Development-Platform-for-EPiServer-CMS/ Since I have switched to Vista as the operating system on my development machine at work, I’ve reached a few conclusions on measures needed to be taken to run EPiServer on IIS7 in Vista. Note that this is not yet a supported platform (by EPiServer) so if you run into any trouble you need to solve them yourself or run EPiServer on a virtual machine. (Read the original blog in Swedish)... http://world.episerver.com/en/Articles/Items/Vista-and-IIS7-as-a-Development-Platform-for-EPiServer-CMS/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:30:00 GMT Subject Configuration Web site development Audience Developer Intermediate Product EPiServer CMS