Month: January 2017

User friendly development in Sitecore

User friendly development in Sitecore

Sitecore is an ideal product to manage complex websites. Editors which don’t have a technical vision but oriented in marketing only – it’s a little bit tricky to understand the custom made things.

Here I will show a few examples of how to implement things on a user friendly manner. That is also nice for the tester and other developers to find quickly the way in the created page templates and components.

It takes some time to make a beautiful and user-friendly Sitecore CMS environment. But at the end a user friendly Sitecore implementation save time and makes it fun to work with. Be nice to the editors, the user friendly cms implementation help to use thethings as they are intended.

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Avoid displaying pages without a language version

The Sitecore CMS allows you to create multiple versions of the pages for each of the languages supported by your site. Still, sometimes you may want to have particular pages translated into to a certain subset of the languages, e.g. if you have French content that should be available for end users in just France and Canada. The problem is that when you try to access the page in a language which does not have a supported version, you won’t get a 404 error, but be displayed an empty page.

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Sitecore Control Panel

Sitecore control panel contains wide variety of functionality which has not been highlighted very well. In this post I will describe all the features that Sitecore Control Panel has provided.

Official documentation

Every  Sitecore developer knows about SDN (Sitecore Developer Network). There are lots of materials could be found. So, I visited SDN and searched any info for Control Panel. I have got the following article:
http://sdn.sitecore.net/Reference/Archive/SC53%20End%20User/Control%20Panel.aspx

In this document functionality has been described very well. Unfortunately, all screens were from Siteocre 5.3. Also, a few options have been removed and some of them have been updated. So, the new screenshots are provided below. Let’s observe them!

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