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Wanted: Video-conferencing solution for mid-sized teams

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Gabe Sumner

The Telerik Evangelism team has recently been experimenting with new techniques for staying connected and in-sync.  One of these techniques was to utilize video-conferencing for our bi-weekly meetings.  Sadly, I’ve not discovered any video-conferencing solutions that accommodates a team of our … Continue reading →

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How to Export Blog Comments from Sitefinity 3 to Disqus

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Gabe Sumner

Over this past weekend I decided to retire my old goondocks.com blog.  This domain name is a reference to The Goonies which is a movie I remember fondly from the 80′s.  I picked up this domain many years ago and … Continue reading →

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2011 reflections on Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

The Holidays are upon us and 2011 is nearly gone.  This past year has been extremely busy and significant for Sitefinity.  Before we move into 2012 I want to reflect on 2011.  This post is strictly my personal opinion and, … Continue reading →

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Amazon’s Silk Browser breaks Web Personalization

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

Yesterday Amazon’s Jeff Bezos announced their new Kindle Fire tablet.  This tablet is a full color, touch-enabled device that is capable of apps, games, books, movies or web browsing.  To put it bluntly, it’s like an iPad…except it’s $199. However, it’s the … Continue reading →

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WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors: Your CMS’s Achilles’ heel

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

Most of what you read online flows through web-based (browser-based) WYSIWYG Rich Text editors.  These tools are central to every CMS and enable content authors, who might know little about HTML, to create HTML. However, content authors are often baffled by … Continue reading →

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DO NOT use font styling in your Rich Text WYSIWYG editor

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

This web page looks the way it does because of a combination of HTML and CSS.  These 2 technologies are the primary languages of the web.  However, very few people who publish web content know HTML & CSS.  This is … Continue reading →

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Modifying the width of the CKEditor Styles dropdown

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

CKEditor comes included with a handy-dandy style selector: Unfortunately this style selector defaults to a very small width.  This small width can result in larger styles being truncated: Thankfully this can be fixed with a couple of custom styles:

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Create a Rich Text editing experience that authors won’t avoid

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

WYSIWYG Rich Text editors are central to every CMS.   These tools enable content authors, who might know nothing about HTML, to create HTML content. However, content authors frequently fear and avoid their CMS’s rich text editor.  These tools are perceived … Continue reading →

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Copy from MS Word, Paste into a Rich Text WYSIWYG editor

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

This title will send chills up the spine of web developers & content authors everywhere.  Web Developers fear the bloated markup caused by this action.  Content authors fear the difficulty of mixing their favorite authoring environment with their CMS’s editor. … Continue reading →

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Unclutter your Rich Text Editor’s toolbar– Essential vs. Useless Features

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Gabe Sumner

WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors (like TinyMCE, CKEditor, RadEditor, etc.) are central to how content gets into a CMS.  These tools enable content authors, who know nothing about HTML, to create HTML.  However, these tools are notoriously fragile, buggy and confusing … Continue reading →

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