I’ve been a fan of Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog for a long time.  Because I was a fan, I also followed the creation of StackOverflow and became a listener of the podcast Jeff created with Joel Spolsky.  In one of these podcasts, Jeff & Joel interviewed Richard White with UserVoice.

During this interview, I became intrigued with UserVoice.  I liked the idea of letting the community post suggestions and vote for existing suggestions.  Here at Telerik we talked about creating a UserVoice community for Sitefinity suggestions.

I am now blogging primarily on the official Sitefinity Blogs.  This full blog post can be seen there.

Many of the web site configuration details for Sitefinity 3.x were stored in the web.config file.  Web.config is the main settings and configuration file for an ASP.NET web site. This file is an XML document that defines configuration information for the web application.

However, because this file is used for ASP.NET configuration (in addition to Sitefinity configuration), the web.config file became a place where Sitefinity configuration, Sitefinity customizations and ASP.NET configurations collided.  This overlap could then become an issue during Sitefinity upgrades.

I am now blogging primarily on the official Sitefinity Blogs.  This full blog post can be seen there.

Sitefinity uses Telerik’s RadEditor to bring a Word-like text editing experience to the web browser.  RadEditor allows content editors to easily style and format text .  However, RadEditor also contains an HTML mode that can be used to directly inject HTML into the content. 

Because HTML mode allows raw HTML to be injected into the content, this feature can be used by savvy editors to create very advanced content layouts.  However, in my opinion, it is inappropriate to toggle into RadEditor’s HTML mode and create HTML formatting.  This should never be done in Sitefinity.  Not even by highly technical editors.  In fact, RadEditor’s HTML mode fundamentally defeats the purpose of having a WCMS.

I am now blogging primarily on the official Sitefinity Blogs.  This full blog post can be seen there.

As of this writing, there is one public release of Sitefinity 4.0.  However, we are planning several additional releases (CTP2, CTP3, BETA, etc) in the coming weeks.  Our goal with Sitefinity 4.0 is to make installation effortless.  However, we also want to make Sitefinity upgrades effortless.

Sitefinity 4.0’s Project Manager contains an Upgrade button.  This button, when clicked, upgrades the selected web site to the current version.  One click and it’s done.  Period.

I am now blogging primarily on the official Sitefinity Blogs.  This full blog post can be seen there.

The purpose of this blog post is to announce that the Sitefinity 4.0 CTP Project Manager now creates Web Application Projects.

I am now blogging primarily on the official Sitefinity Blogs.  This full blog post can be seen there.

In my last blog post, I described our goal of making Sitefinity 4.0 installation effortless.  Within a couple of minutes of download, we wanted customers to be focused on building their web sites, not installation. 

We’re accomplishing this goal, in part, through Sitefinity 4.0’s built-in web server.

I am now blogging primarily on the official Sitefinity Blogs.  This full blog post can be seen there.

Around 1 year ago I wrote the Bullet Proof Guide to Installing Sitefinity 3.x.  This blog post weighs in at 21 pages and includes a 30 minute video.  This blog post was written after I reformatted my system to install the Windows 7 RC.  This system rebuild forced me to re-discover all the small steps needed to setup IIS, setup SQLExpress and then run Sitefinity’s Project Manager.  To this day, the Bullet Proof Guide is the most popular resource on Sitefinity Watch.

I am now blogging primarily on the official Sitefinity Blogs.  This full blog post can be seen there.

The day has finally arrived!  I've been biting my tongue for weeks and today I can finally start talking about 4.0.

During this past year the Sitefinity Team has been working on deep revisions & optimizations to Sitefinity's core architecture.  We have big plans for Sitefinity and our goal was to build a platform that would eagerly accommodate these lofty goals.

Today, I'm delighted to announce that we've reached an important milestone in this journey.  The CTP release of Sitefinity 4.0 is now available to all customers to download and test. 

The CTP can be downloaded from Sitefinity.com.

CTP is an acronym for Community Technology Preview.  This release is not yet feature complete.  Instead, this release is just a taste of things to come.  Additional modules and functionality will be will be delivered in later releases (BETA). 

Be sure to visit the Sitefinity 4.0 CTP launch page for a ...

Last week was a BIG WEEK for Telerik developer tools.  This past Wednesday, Telerik released updates for 8 developer tools.  This includes - RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, WinForms, Silverlight, WPF, Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, Telerik Reporting, OpenAccess ORM, and JustCode.

Today, Sitefinity CMS is also getting an update with Service Pack 3.  This Service Pack includes the updated Q1 2010 RadControls, impressive performance improvements, and the option to store Images & Documents on the file system (as opposed to the database).

• Download Sitefinity 3.7 SP3
• Upgrade Instructions

Highlights

Here are a few highlights from this release (full details are listed below):

Performance Improvements for Large Web Sites

Service Pack 3 improves performance dramatically for web sites with thousands of pages.  These performance improvements were applied to scenarios where a data grid is being bound to very large SiteMaps.  This includes Sitefinity’s Page Admin as well as other ...

I’m happy to announce that the Sitefinity community has been very active lately creating new items for Sitefinity’s Marketplace.

Several new items have recently been posted to Sitefinity’s Marketplace. 

Events Map Plugin

Events Map is a plug-in that displays events on a global map via Google Maps. It produces the map with pins of all the events you have available on your website. A click of the pin will open a billboard-type section on the map with the event details with a link to the event page.

Created by Basem Emara.

Events Rotator Plugin

Events Rotator is a plug-in that displays events in a rotator fashion anywhere on your site. It slides through all the events you have available on your website and displays a nicely formatted thumbnail, title, and time of the event. A click of the slideshow will take you to the full event page

Created ...