Umbraco 5th birthday

16 February 2010

Neil Tootell & Julien Decaudin from SAS

Today1. Introduction

2. Our approach

3. Multilingual sites

4. Search implementation

5. Data-driven Flash

6. Wrap-up

1. Introduction

Our history with Umbraco• Search for a CMS to please everybody

• 3 years of experience

• Main technical solution

• Reusable libraries (XSLT/.NET)

• Non technical people are excited

Where it all began...• Slaughter and May

• Umbraco v3

• 3000+ nodes

• 60 document types

• 130 macros

• Lucene search (thanks Per)

• Data driven flash

• One year of development (ouch)

Why we like Umbraco

Why we really like Umbraco• Designer friendly

• Elegant code

• Cheap

• Standards compliant

• Friendly community

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2. Our approach

Tailoring the framework• A starting point

• Re-use your content where possible

• Four main content sections:

– Main pages

– Support pages

– Data-only nodes

– Repository folder

Main pages Support pages

Data-only nodes Repository folder

Standard libraries• XSLT includes

• Simple custom DLL

• Favourite plugins

– ImageGen

– Umbraco Blog

– XSLT Search

Modular data• Modules

• Content pickers

• Relationships

In summary...• Bullet-proof for clients

• Design control retained

• Content re-used

3. Multilingual sites

What we needed• Adding new language easily

• Compatible with SAS Umbraco’s approach

• Umbraco Wiki articles/forum posts

• Separate parent branch per language

• Reference language/pages

In summary...• Client gained a flexible site

• Well structured & easy to develop

• XSLT translation library developed

4. Search implementation

Finding nearly everything• We love the XSLT search

• UmbSearch 2 for media indexing

• Customisation

• Stability of the index

In summary...

• Stick to XSLT search where possible

• Use Lucene carefully with stability fixes

5. Data driven Flash

Let’s have fun

Let’s forget about that

All you need is• One page

• A Flash movie node

• Few Flash module nodes

• A fresh XSLT macro

• A couple of templates

• A cup of coffee

• A cat

In summary...• A bullet-proof generic method

• Full Flash control from Umbraco

• Easy to implement

• Difficult to explain

• Fancy a live demo?

6. Wrap up

Questions?

Thank you

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