We're a startup and we built a .net website which we are porting over to MVC. All our text was added to the site using labels so that resource files could be automatically built in the future using the tool in Visual Studio.
I loved the idea which Facebook introduced encouraging the community to self-translate. I wonder if anyone has tried implementing such a thing in the .Net world? The interface would have to be rich and easy to use, but I guess any complexity would be in the auditing and possibly writing to the resource file for that locale. I have no idea if the latter is possible.
Any thoughts then give me a shout. Perhaps this could be an open source project in itself.
Rick Strahl over on www.west-wind.com has a Data Driven Localization Resource Provider but I am pretty sure it is webform related. It allows users to edit and save translation texts in a browser while using the application.
The question i would then ask is how do you check the translations to ensure they are correct and make sense.
A classic example is in the UK in Wales road signs need to be in English and Welsh. A sign was needed saying "HGV's please take this route" (or similar) So the English was sent to the translators and the reply duly came back and the sign was made up and put up in the road. Welsh speaking driver were most surprised to se a sign which said "HGV's please take this route" in English and in Welsh it said (obviously i have translated it back) "We are all on holiday please contact us again after the 10th November".
Translation is not really about the tecnology, it's about the languages.
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We have an idea to use ADX with MVC 5 and CRM 2013.
Is it possible?
We are doing background research on this whether to use ADX or not.
We have used ASP.NET with ADX previously.
This will help take a decision and will save our time.
Appreciate help if anyone know about this.
Adx portal - http://www.adxstudio.com/products/adxstudio-portals/
ADX offers a great product with an impressive feature list. http://www.adxstudio.com/products/adxstudio-portals/portals-features/
Like any add-on, look to see if there is something it contains that you deem as being vital and valuable enough to justify. Additionally, does your team have the ability/time to create the end product with or without ADX?
This is an opinion based question and in my opinion, none of the features alone justify the price. Especially seeing that ASP.NET + NuGet pretty much covers most of these features already.
Adxstudio Portals delivers managed forms by rendering a form in an Adxstudio Portal based on a particular form or view customization defined on an entity in CRM. Within CRM, entities can be customized and forms and views can be modified or created depending on your requirements.
https://community.adxstudio.com/products/adxstudio-portals/users-guide/managed-forms/
and
https://community.adxstudio.com/products/adxstudio-portals/developers-guide/web-controls/crmentityformview/
Above is the main reason us to consider ADX Studio.
ADX Studio, offers a good tool set to the client that has an internal developing team that will pick it up after you finish to customize it. Basically you provide some page template and the user is able to mess around with the forms to have a tailored experience (this works well when you don't have any logic on the page, just set the page and you are ready to go). Anything that is not in this category is custom made, means that you need to code it, and you will lose all the additional ADX benefits (for what concerns the read/write to CRM). Consider that a CRM developer is not a full asp/mvc developer, so anything that is more complex than change some code behind in a page template will create you problems, also all the jscript on the adx pages needs to be tailored, and you will need developers that are knowing the current web development standards, from Bootstrap to a decent js framework. Personally I'm not a huge fan, but the built-in authentication and some other features are making it a viable product. Consider that to customize it you will need someone that knows responsive design and js.
Our sitecore site is currrently only in English, at the moment the xml for the site is being translated into spanish, french & german. right now I am trying to get an idea of whats involved in the language import procedure and the pitfalls etc that may be encountered when the translated code is added into the cms, can anyone explain any best practices for language import or any good websites that explain this procedure?
There are companies that sell software to handle translations using Sitecore content so there are multiple solutions here. Clay Tablet Technologies would be one example that is used where I work but there could be others out there to consider though another part is how complex is the structure of your content.
I've just installed Orchard and created a sample site. I want to evaluate this CMS to see what it's capabilities are if I could choose it for my CMS of choice for ASP.NET MVC based sites. Has anyone used it to run a custom, highly modified website? Unfortunately no sample sites are provided at Orchard site to see it in action.
I know what my requirements will be and those are quite demanding. I have my own little CMS in ASP.NET MVC 2 which I tailor to my needs anytime I want but it lacks a lot of functionality that you get when you have a bigger team of developers at your disposal like the Orchard has.
The best way to reply to this question is if you can provide some insights into customization and if you can provide a link to a working site.
There are a couple sites out there.. Here are three I have worked on...
These two were for a University, they have a contact us page, Payment system, and also hooks in to multiple databases with a large set of business logic for students and payments. The Registration system also has an updated menu template to deal with drop downs.
http://housing.bathspa.ac.uk/ (v0.5)
http://registration.bathspa.ac.uk/ (v0.5)
My blog jsut has a modified theme which was enough to get me up an running.
http://www.themayneissue.com/ (v0.5)
There are a few open source modules I work on as well..
http://orchardopenauth.codeplex.com/
http://orchardblogml.codeplex.com/
These also allow for customization of the Orchard system
There are two community sites using Orchard, Orchard Gallery and NuGet gallery.
For now me with my team is being writing an appication for nearly two months using Orchard and the only thing I can say is that it is awesome!
Yes, Orchard is very simple for now, but it is so powerfull in the same time. I just love their dynamic shapes and content types. Use it and you'll love it!
And as a bonus:
Just get code from repo and look through it, it shines like a diamond (the only problem is lack of comments). I am sure every MVC developer will find a lot of stuff to learn from it.
There is another web site developed using orchard.
I need to develop a Portal for B2C from scratch, right now I faced two problem:
1.How can I integrate SEO into the architecture design ?
2.How to design the architecture to ensure the performance ?
I need to revamp a website like this :http://www.airasia.com/bd/en/home.html
And why all the enterprise level website are using *.html ? but not a jsp or asp ? what technology do they use ?
I need to get more knowledge on this field to better finish my job, can someone point me a direction ?
Thanks !
1) I have a post for developers considering SEO in their web application that can help you on your SEO.
2) For you I would suggest ASP.NET web forms since it is well equipped for beginners (as well as advanced enterprise level sites). Here is a get started guide to ASP.NET to help you out. It allows you to use routing in ASP.NET 4 to make nice URLs and URL rewriting if on an IIS server. For now though if you are not too confident, I really wouldn't worry about that.
Anyone more advanced passing by I would recommend ASP.NET MVC by the way. It is a tough concept to crack but well worth it. Unit testing is easier, speed of development is great, stateless. Lovely.
Caveat - Other than touching old school JSP for a bit, my experience is mainly Microsoft so cannot say that the ASP way is THE way. Just a good way.
That might actually be a static page, at least the version I saw had nearly nothing 'dynamic' on it that javascript could do easily. Static serves very quickly and scales beautifully.
As for jsp vs asp vs rails vs django, they can all be configured to not require cluttering URLs with file extensions.
If you focus on high-quality data in your application that is easily parsed by simple tools, search engines will find you. Use text for text (text in images is useless), no flash or silverlight or java applets. If your site is useful on your phone, it'll be great for search engines.
I found some useful resources on this topic :
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/
And a useful plugin yslow for performance improvement.
Book: High Performance Web Sites
Its time to rebuild my portfolio site, and I am thinking of either using Silverlight (still have to learn the basics but would be fun) or use MVC.NET.
I would like to use Silverlight since its something I am really interested in learning, and building up a small portfolio site should not be an out of this world task. However I do not know if its advisable, since I want my portfolio to be viewed and accessed by everyone, platform independent.
What do you guys think?
Thanks
From an SEO and ease of page bookmarking point of view you might want to go with traditional HTML, i.e. ASP.NET MVC.
The downside of building an entire site in Flash or Silverlight is that users can't bookmark a specific page within it, and search engine bots can't by default follow links or parse the text.
The following page deals with SEO and Silverlight sites.
http://silverlight.net/learn/whitepapers/seo-for-silverlight/
If really want platform independence you should avoid Silverlight, users on Linux especially won't get a good experience at the moment.
However if you want reasonable access by people in general then Silverlight is do-able.
You might ask yourself whether coupling your important portfolio site with your own personal improvement plan is a good idea.
Utlimately then develop your site with ASP.NET-MVC then spend some time with Silverlight without impacting your site, or perhaps include some content via Silverlight.
You can build both of them. It will allow you to see the differences between them and compare them.
I think your portfolio site should show your works also with its structure. If you are doing design, It would be nicer to make your site with Silverlight!
Those are actually not two techonologies that are related in any way or say that you should use one over another. You can have a ASP.NET MVC site (which I prefer and suggest to you) and then use Silverlight parts in it.
I prefer using Silverlight (or Flash for the same matter) only for animations, maybe parts of a website but not for entire website. If only portfolio will be built in Silverlight you should definitely do it in classic HTML too for users that lack Silverlight support.
May be it's too late about answering.
Now, Silverlight seems to go to its end. Microsoft wants to stop supporting it after 2021.
But, since Microsoft says they will ever support OOB mode, I think you could continue to developp to Silverlight today.
So I think, it's up not for animations. It's up to users of the application :
Silverlight has some good avaibilities to simulate windows like application.
After loading data in cache, you can have better user reactivity.
And, you get an other good point : user can easily cancel data they write.
At the end, with RIA services technology, for developpers, this is pretty easy to simulate entities like in client development.
As it says before, you can have mvc web application with silverlight inside.