Articles written by author Jens Mikkelsen

In this episode we interview Sean Kearney from Hedgehog Development. The interview is focused on Hedgehogs product - Team Development for Sitecore. In the podcast you will here about the basic concepts of TDS as well as best practices and technical details, which you can use when developing solutions using TDS.

In this article we’ll describe what standard values are in Sitecore, and how it can be used. We’ll go through the concept and then briefly touch where and how it should be used.

This is the sixth part of the article series in 10 parts, describing how to build a simple information site in Sitecore.

In this article we’ll go through how you can build navigation for your website. We’ll introduce the concept of interface templates and how you can build both a left menu and defining global menu points to be shown in the top of the site. Further we’ll briefly touch HTML cache and how to set that up.

In this episode we'll be interviewing Sitecore CTO Johtn West. We will be talking about who he is, what he does and about his presentation at Dreamcore Europe 2010. The interview took place right after the final session at Dreamcore.

This is the fifth part of the article series in 10 parts, describing how to build a simple information site in Sitecore.

 

In this article we’ll go through how you can build the identity component including the footer and the header. Further we’ll go through how you can build a basic document page. We will introduce a couple of new components and start creating templates for content.

This is the forth part of the article series in 10 parts, describing how to build a simple information site in Sitecore.

In this article I’ll go through the basic parts of the site, focusing on the basic layout. This part of the tutorial will be based on the architecture described in the last part of the series and will be simple and basic, so that everyone should be able to follow the guide and the component architecture is explained.

This is the third part of the article series in 9 parts, describing how to build a simple information site in Sitecore.

 
In this article we suggest, how you can define your architecture in a Sitecore solution and walk through the architecture for the simple information site we are building. Hope you enjoy the tutorial.

You can now request articles on Learn Sitecore and we will do our best to document the areas you need. So if you think there is a need for some Sitecore documentation, please enter your requests.

 

 

 

 

Yet another contributor has joined the article authors on Learn Sitecore. Joel Watson created a great video of his XAML application on his blog, and he has now written an article about it.

 

 

 

 

It is possible to have multiple sites in the same solution in Sitecore, but there are a few pitfalls and issues which need to be taken into account, when developing the solution. This article will go through the steps and considerations to take, when designing and building solutions containing multiple sites. Starting out with a simple walk through and then talking about the pitfalls and drawbacks.

All articles on Learn Sitecore are based on contributors from the Sitecore community. Today Lennert Sloth from the company Mjølner Informatics joined the contributors, writing an article about single source publishing.

 

 

 

 

This article will describe how you query for data in Sitecore OMS analytics database, pulling out statistics about the visits on your site. In particular this article will show you, how you can use the analytics data to create a presentation of the most viewed pages on your site.

The Sitecore IndexViewer is a Sitecore application which lets you browse and search the Lucene indexes in Sitecore. It has now been released for Sitecore 6.1.

 

 

 

A little over a month has passed since we launched learnsitecore.cmsuniverse.net and we have had really good feedback and written four articles. During the next couple of month we will of cause publish some more articles and launch some new functionality.

Sitecore caching isn’t documented very well and it is quite intransparent how it works; still it is extremely important for the performance of your site. Therefore this article will try and explain the different caches in Sitecore, how they work and when they are cleared.

 

Hopefully it will help you ensure performance on your site.

Read this second and last part of the article series about the key concepts in Sitecore OMS.

 

In this part we walk through the concepts of events, failures, the rule engine, filters and personalization.

 

 

Enjoy! 

 

 

Read this first article of two about the key concepts in Sitecore OMS.

 

In this part we walk through the concepts of profiles, reports, goals and campaigns.

 

 

 

 

If you want to learn everything involved in building a simple information site in Sitecore follow this article series in 9 parts.

 

In this part we go through the basic requirements for the site.

This is the second part of the article series in 9 parts, describing how to build a simple information site in Sitecore.

In this article we describe how to install Sitecore and how to setup a simple single user development environment.

Wonder how you can use Sitecore OMS as your normal analytics provider?

 

Check out this article, which gives you a first glance at Sitecore OMS formally known as Sitecore Everest, where you will be shown how to use your first standard reports and what information can be shown.

Today Sitecore released the Sitecore Online Marketing Suite also called Sitecore OMS.

 

Sitecore claims it to be a revolutionary improvement to CMS'.

 

LearnSitecore will be taking a closer look at the module the upcomming weeks.

Today Sitecore 6.1 was released today. It is probably not noticed as the release of Sitecore OMS will take the most of the attention.

 

However the new version includes a lot of important fixes and improvements.

In this third article about Lucene queries, you will learn how to define indexes in the web.config. It will give you instructions on how to define index fields and setup constraints for content to be indexed.

 

Further it will show you how to build a custom indexer, allowing you to index values, which aren't defined in a Sitecore field.

This second part of the series about Lucene queries give you an detailed example on how to create a news list, which uses Lucene to pull data from Sitecore.

 

So if you want a hands on example on how to create well performing presentations based on Lucene read this article.

Have you allways wondered how Lucene and the Sitecore integration to it can be used? Or have you experiencing performance problems with relational presentations like a news list?

Then read this article, which walks through the difference Lucene query types and gives you an example on how to use them to construct a news list.

 

This is the first of three articles on the subject.

You may have noticed log entries in the Sitecore log, which informs about thresholds being exceeded? If you want to know why they come and how you can use the information to troubleshoot your solution, you should read this article.

 

It describes how they work, why they come and how you can use the information to narrow down where your performance issues are located.

In this article you will get an introduction to the Sitecore API revolving around items. You will learn more about how to read values from its fields, alter them and how to create new items.

 

This is the first part of an article in two parts. In this part you'll learn the most basic operations

In this article you will get an introduction to the Sitecore API revolving around items. You will learn more about how to read values from its fields, alter them and how to create new items.

 

This is the second part of an article in two parts. In this part you'll learn how to alter and create items.

This is the 2nd part of the series “Getting started with XSL extensions”. In this part you will learn to use parameters and get some tips on what to avoid, when using XSL extensions.

XSLT is a great technology to use to output HTML from Sitecore’s XML. XSLT should be used instead of sublayouts, whenever there is no need for complex logic. However sometimes you need a little chunk of logic to be performed or a simple operation to be executed in your XSLT. XSL extensions are great for this. It allows you to call some C# / VB methods you from your XSLT. This article will give you an introduction to writing XSL extensions. It will show you, how you configure and call them, but also give some pointer and ideas on when and how to use them.