Umbraco 5th Birthday from SAS Design
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Neil Tootell & Julien Decaudin from SAS will present the best of their 2009 projects using umbraco. Key areas covered will be code reuse, documents vs templates, Lucene implementation and modular data.
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Umbraco 5th Birthday from SAS Design
- 1. Umbraco 5th birthday Neil Tootell & Julien Decaudin from SAS 16 February 2010
- 2. Today 1. Introduction 2. Our approach 3. Multilingual sites 4. Search implementation 5. Data-driven Flash 6. Wrap-up
- 4. Our history with Umbraco • Search for a CMS to please everybody • 3 years of experience • Main technical solution • Reusable libraries (XSLT/.NET) • Non technical people are excited
- 5. Where it all began... • Slaughter and May • Umbraco v3 • 3000+ nodes • 60 document types • 130 macros • Lucene search (thanks Per) • Data driven flash • One year of development (ouch)
- 7. Why we like Umbraco
- 9. Why we really like Umbraco • Designer friendly • Elegant code • Cheap • Standards compliant • Friendly community
- 10. INSERT GRID OF SCREENSHOTS
- 11. 2. Our approach
- 12. Tailoring the framework • A starting point • Re-use your content where possible • Four main content sections: – Main pages – Support pages – Data-only nodes – Repository folder
- 13. Main pages Support pages Data-only nodes Repository folder
- 14. Standard libraries • XSLT includes • Simple custom DLL • Favourite plugins – ImageGen – Umbraco Blog – XSLT Search
- 17. Modular data • Modules • Content pickers • Relationships
- 22. In summary... • Bullet-proof for clients • Design control retained • Content re-used
- 26. What we needed • Adding new language easily • Compatible with SAS Umbraco’s approach • Umbraco Wiki articles/forum posts • Separate parent branch per language • Reference language/pages
- 32. In summary... • Client gained a flexible site • Well structured & easy to develop • XSLT translation library developed
- 34. Finding nearly everything • We love the XSLT search • UmbSearch 2 for media indexing • Customisation • Stability of the index
- 35. In summary... • Stick to XSLT search where possible • Use Lucene carefully with stability fixes
- 36. 5. Data driven Flash
- 37. Let’s have fun
- 39. Let’s forget about that
- 48. All you need is • One page • A Flash movie node • Few Flash module nodes • A fresh XSLT macro • A couple of templates • A cup of coffee • A cat
- 49. In summary... • A bullet-proof generic method • Full Flash control from Umbraco • Easy to implement • Difficult to explain • Fancy a live demo?
- 50. 6. Wrap up
- 51. Questions?