The last few weeks has seen some careful plotting about the future of http://www.reddotcmsblog.com. We are looking to take suggestions for new articles each month, so if you’ve got an idea that you want us to look into for you, come on over and leave us a comment, or fill in the poll (http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/poll-suggestions-post-of-the-month-we-want-your-help)
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I’ve been working with Frederic Hemberger and Markus Giesen recently on putting together a combined blog with Reddot hints and tips. It made more sense to have one larger blog instead of three separate ones.
So.. Go and bookmark http://www.reddotcmsblog.com while I go back to trying to figure out an irritating platformy bit in The [...]
Thanks to being dragged out of bed at some stupid time on Friday to fix a publishing problem, I was reminded of our wonderous wiki post about killing publishes. I thought it might be a good idea to write a post with all the different ways we know of saving yourself and your server.
Thanks to those side track posts, Adrian has beaten me to writing some of the articles on my list, plus a few additional ones. Now I need to think of some new ones.
You all know about the “in smartEdit” and “Not in smartEdit” options you have. Adrian explains what to do when you don’t want [...]
When it comes to successfully implimenting complex Flash (1) inside a Reddot project you’ve two approaches. Either you carefully explain to the client that you may not get to see it working inside smartEdit, or you get the Flash developer to make sure that they develop it in a manner that’s going to work for [...]
The other day I got some interesting questions about the first Foundation post, so rather than answering them as a comment, I figured it would be more useful to write another post instead.
There are a number of reasons why clearing your page cache can be necessary, mostly during a development cycle where you’re repeatedly publishing out the same pages, or need a site wide change to take place. Normally this isn’t a proble, thanks to the nice “Clear page cache” button.
But sometimes it all becomes horribly stuck, timing [...]
No-one seems to be able to give us a straight answer for this question. Reddot are suitably vague and other agencies we’ve spoken to all have their own preferences for when to use it… so this is what we’ve worked out over time.
What is a language variant?
A language variant is a copy of your site, [...]
Back in April Markus posted his element naming conventions. I think it’s time to reiterate this, by adding some of those we’ve been developing in UCB. And why.
When developing things it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking you know what things mean, so everyone else should as well. Please. Remeber the developer coming in [...]
Ok, so previously I covered some of the benefits of using a foundation project. I forgot to go into detail about how we plan to use the foundation for testing.
If you’ve set things up with all your templates in a foundation project and put all your content into a child project, you’re probably thinking that [...]