Neil Tootell & Julien Decaudin from SAS will present the best of their 2009 projects using umbraco. Key areas covered will be code reuse, documents vs templates, Lucene implementation and modular data.

1. Umbraco 5th birthday
Neil Tootell & Julien Decaudin from SAS
16 February 2010

2. Today
1. Introduction
2. Our approach
3. Multilingual sites
4. Search implementation
5. Data-driven Flash
6. Wrap-up

3. 1. Introduction

4. 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

5. 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)

7. Why we like Umbraco

9. Why we really like Umbraco
• Designer friendly
• Elegant code
• Cheap
• Standards compliant
• Friendly community

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11. 2. Our approach

12. 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

13. Main pages Support pages
Data-only nodes Repository folder

14. Standard libraries
• XSLT includes
• Simple custom DLL
• Favourite plugins
– ImageGen
– Umbraco Blog
– XSLT Search

17. Modular data
• Modules
• Content pickers
• Relationships

22. In summary...
• Bullet-proof for clients
• Design control retained
• Content re-used

23. 3. Multilingual sites

26. 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

32. In summary...
• Client gained a flexible site
• Well structured & easy to develop
• XSLT translation library developed

33. 4. Search implementation

34. Finding nearly everything
• We love the XSLT search
• UmbSearch 2 for media indexing
• Customisation
• Stability of the index

35. In summary...
• Stick to XSLT search where possible
• Use Lucene carefully with stability fixes

36. 5. Data driven Flash

37. Let’s have fun

39. Let’s forget about that

48. 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

49. In summary...
• A bullet-proof generic method
• Full Flash control from Umbraco
• Easy to implement
• Difficult to explain
• Fancy a live demo?

50. 6. Wrap up

51. Questions?

52. Thank you
www.sasdesign.co.uk