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We're looking into using Orchard CMS for a project. I know the CMS hasn't been around for a long time, but I was wondering if there were any known high profile and successful case studies using Orchard CMS or its predecessor Oxite?
Thanks.
The recently released Orchard Gallery is itself built using Orchard: http://orchardproject.net/gallery. Also, the NuGet gallery website is using the exact same code as the Orchard Gallery, with a different theme applied: http://nuget.org. What's more, the Orchard/NuGet gallery is mostly implemented as a custom Orchard module, and that code is open source. Check out http://orchardgallery.codeplex.com for more details.
Bath Spa implemented Orchard for both their registration and housing booking systems.
http://registration.bathspa.ac.uk
http://housing.bathspa.ac.uk
I think they are also due to roll out the external site in Orchard too at some point.
Granted the sites are not 'high profile' in techie circles, but for a poly tech university in the UK to adopt open source, that's quite a big thing for them.
You can find lots of examples of websites using Orchard on Show Orchard. Featured websites come with interviews of the developers.
We have just finished building http://www.oxfordeconomics.com/ with Orchard CMS. This is both a marketing and subscription content site which receives on average 1000 visitors and 4000+ page views daily. It operates in a niche business area and is not a consumer site.
There were a number of challenges regarding caching, performance of taxonomies, widget management to name a few. Orchard's architecture is very flexible, but there's obviously a learning curve. I'm happy to discuss more details at http://sophilabs.com (contact)
Yes, it's extremely early for that as far as Orchard is concerned. There are a few sites using it but nothing "high-profile". Nor should there be at this point.
It's a little different for Oxite, which has been running some pretty high profile sites such as the Mix site and others around the people doing Channel 9. It hasn't been made into a case study that I know of though.
The MIX11 site was built on Orchard: http://live.visitmix.com/news/mix11-adopts-orchard.
I would suggest to check video tutorials , that could be found on http://pluralsight.com/
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I want to develop a personal blogging website using ASP.NET MVC 4.
I know that I could be using WordPress/ Joomla/ Orchard/ Umbraco/ Funnelweb, etc., instead of reinventing the wheel but I really wish to try it out myself.
I do not want my website to look like some beatle-aged archaic remain. I see plugins like Akismet/ Prettify/ Markdown/ nrelate that add amazing functionalities to your blog. But I am not really sure if I would be able to use any of these in my custom application as most of them are PHP based. I want to stick under the Microsoft roof and implement technologies like HTML5, CSS3 Silverlight5 and WCF 4.0, along with ASP.NET MVC 4. (At least thats what I plan to do)
I understand that I need to develop a scalable database design that could accomodate newer functionalities in the future. Additionally, the exorbitant focus on SEO and cross-browser capabilities is overwhelming. Permanent links for individual blogs, internal navigation, video-embedding inside posts, etc., sound like building Rome in a day
Please if you could guide me personally or direct me to appropriate resources, it would be very helpful.
I am sort of doing it right now on my own. It's not done yet but it will give you an idea: MvcBloggy.
Also, have a look at FunnelWeb source code. It's written in C# and uses ASP.NET MVC 3 I believe but it's a really good resource and easy to follow.
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I have been trying to find an example some where on web on how to do translations in Tridion. I had no luck finding anything except mentioning of Translation Manager. Can someone point to a resource or best practices on how this can be done?
More details: I want to know how people send content for translations and then get it back into tridion. I saw some posts talking about event system. I am looking for a big picture start — localize — export — import — maintenance phases.
This is really the wrong place to ask this question, but I think it deserves a proper answer anyway.
SDL is (among other things) the "Global Information Management" company. Everything SDL does has a language/localization/globalization aspect to it. Including, of course, its translation tools and services.
As such, SDL has created and maintained (for many years) connectors to various CM platforms, and obviously SDL Tridion has a great integration story here. Good details about how it works here, courtesy of Robert Curlette.
If you're trying to integrate Tridion with other language vendors, I suggest you ask the language vendors for such a connector. The Tridion connector was available from SDL before the Tridion acquisition, I suspect that if other language vendors are serious about their connectivity to WCM platforms, they will also offer a connector to Tridion.
If you do not want to go with Translation Manager. I think the only solution is to localise your component in respective publication and do manual entry of publication/country specific content.
For translating your content only you can take help of any third party tools (search over Google).
even in that case also you have to do manual content entry in tridion cms.
In addition to the good comments from Ram and Nuno - You might want to investigate using the Workflow Engine from SDL Tridion. It offers the ability to write your own automated activities (e.g. Send or receive an item for translation via email or web service). This may be an effective solution for you, assuming there are no connectors available for the the translation services you intend to use.
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So I want to start working on specific pages on my website to have a mobile version. I was wondering how I should go about it? Do I create a new controller for each controller so that if it detects mobile then it redirects to that controller? or do i just use css to change how the page gets viewed?
If I need to create a new controlelr do I host it on a subdomain?
Comments are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!
#TheRealKingK is right about picking up some books on the matter. There are always 1000 ways to solve a problem, so it really depends on the variables involved in your project. I read an article in the latest MSDN that touches on mobile/desktop strategies and it had some good insight.
CSS media queries are excellent for helping render things for different sized screen, but do not help with detecting hardware capabilities, or filtering out heavy media out of the site for faster downloads on say a 3G mobile network.
Having a seperate controller base could be a decent strategy. I would have ALL your controller inherit from a custom base controller that (among other things), would determine where the request is coming from, and route them to the right controller. This really depending on what the site is for and what your client needs on the desktop versus a mobile app (native or HTML5)
I am playing around with rolling an MVC4 blogging application with a custom content management on the backend. Thus far it is pretty lightweight, so CSS is working for me.
I dunno if this sounds like a nerd-rambling or not, but hopefully it gives you some insight.
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I know many have asked the MVC vs Webforms question many times. My question is slightly different in that I am currently updating my skills from ASP.NET2/VB.NET to ASP.NET4/C#. I am seriously thinking that I should perhaps not waste time in upgrading my Webforms skills which are Okish, but instead put the effort into starting again with MVC. I keep looking at all the properties of ASP.NET server controls and sigh !!! I do see the benefit in just focussing on web technologies such as JS, CSS and now JQuery and CSS3.
I would be interested in your thoughts?
It sounds like you are doing a clean-slate here. You are changing languages and technologies. My advice would be to identify what you feel is the best technology going forward and learn that. You are already committing to learning something new - make it the most valuable experience you can make it.
From my perspective, I would recommend MVC. Personally I feel that this is the better platform to move forward on. You will have to add quite a few auxiliary skills such as Razor, JQuery and all the rest but it will be worth it. The bottom line though is that it is what is best for you. If your environment is better served by Webforms, then that is the best choice for you.
Six months ago I changed jobs. I was previously working at a large company that was still on .NET 2.0, VB.NET and ASP.NET WebForms. I now work at a company that uses .NET 4.0, C# and ASP.NET MVC3. So, I've been through this myself.
If you understand how the web works and want complete control over the client experience, MVC is the answer without a doubt. At my previous job I would end up pulling my hair out because I hated how WebForms prevented me from creating a page with clean markup. But, a lot of people don't know how HTTP, CSS, Javascript and HTML all fit together. WebForms was a solution to that. But, it's much more fun and performant to have complete control of what you sent to your customer/client.
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I need to add a real time dashboard of data to a ASP.NET MVC application. The dashboard needs to be refreshed every few minutes from SQL server 2008. I was going to use ASP.NET MVC, with jQuery and AJAX. But Silverlight 3 is a possible option (each client has Silverlight 3 installed). I know WPF, is it worth the jump to SL 3 for this?
A dashboard is an excellent use of Silverlight. You can create some terrific looking UIs and it can be used to create a very compelling visual experience. Charts and gauges will pop off the screen. Your data will look incredible.
There is a learning curve when developing your first Silverlight app so make sure that you're clear on what the final product will be. If the requirements are well defined, you'll be able to determine if you think it is something that you and your team will be able to achieve.
For a dashboard, I think a JQuery solution works best and that is the direction I would go in. I'm still a little unsold on the long term future of Silverlight compared to the AJAX/HTML 5 future.
I would only go to SL 3 under one of the 2 scenarios below.
You need a rich UI experience (ex. fancy charts, graphs, etc..) that WPF/SL will help you achieve easier. If the user interacts with the dashboard, then that makes it a good candidate
You want to learn SL 3 or want your team to learn SL 3