While working through my Sitefinity web site it became obvious that I wanted every page to start with "breadcrumbs", followed by the page's title. The "breadcrumbs" are easily accomplished by dragging Sitefinity's "Breadcrumb" Navigation control onto my templates.  By applying the "breadcrumb" control to my templates, rather than individual pages, it ensures that the control gets applied to ALL pages.  For page title, however, I was finding that I needed to use a "Generic Content" control on each individual page.  This was also forcing me to manually type the page's title (something ...

Let's talk about community for a moment. I recently got a mention over at the official Sitefinity blogs page.  I appreciated this not merely because I'm an ego maniac, but also because it shows Telerik stands ready to foster & support the budding Sitefinity community. When evaluating Sitefinity early on, there were five things that were largely responsible for getting me on-board: There was an online demo. There was a downloadable trial. There was a free "Community" version of their product. I didn't have to talk to anyone in ...

Posting code samples on web pages sucks.  Much of the nice formatting that makes code readable gets completely lost when you toss it into HTML.  What you end up with looks like modem line noise. To combat this, I wanted to create a Sitefinity control that would easily allow me to post nicely formatted code samples to my web pages.  This ended up becoming a fairly complex project.  To see full information & download details about this control, click here. Sorry I have to direct you to a new page.  ...

Telerik recently released Service Pack 1 for Sitefinity 3.1.  With it they beefed up their CmsManager.GetPages() method.  You can now return a set number of pages, as well as sort the pages by a given property. This allowed me to create a "What's New" control.  This control simply returns links to the last X number of pages that were updated.  (You can set the number of links that get returned.) I have made this control available within the GoonDocks Sitefinity Controls. It is free for anyone to ...