A colleague of mine had some problems after recently upgrading an EPiServer site developed in Visual Studio 2005. The site he was developing was brought up to date by using Visual Studio 2008. After changing the web project build framework to .NET 3.5, the development machine compiled the site no problem. However the problem was that the STAGE Web.config file had not been updated with some extra entries that the upgrade wizard had put in. The error he was getting was highlighting the “this PageData data”, saying “Type expected”. public static class EPiServerExtensions { public stat... [More]

Last night, I was building a little thing in jQuery to slide a menu off to the left of the screen.  What I wanted to do was queue the following effects so that the rest of the content on the page could take up it’s space once it has gone: Adjust the ‘left’ position of the menu <div> to slide it off the screen. Hide the menu <div> so that the content can move in. The second step seems to be necessary as adjusting the left position of the <div> alone does not allow the content to move in (I‘m working on that bit still). So lets take a second to look at what I ... [More]

Its about time I stopped being scared of the ‘new’ things on the internet that are not written in C# and started to embrace them.  As my previous post alludes to that fact that I am starting to take a closer look at front-end web design (or at least how to implement it!). One thing I’m really keen to do is start having a play with jQuery, as this also ties in quite nicely with a project I am writing the functional specification for this week. Sliding Vertical Menu The first thing that I wanted to do was to have vertical navigation element that the user could hide, giving them more room to v... [More]

I’ve been involved in some web design builds recently, which has been somewhat of a learning experience for me.  Last time I was really involved in knocking up the front-end of a site everything was done in tables an that was just that way it was (a fair few years ago!). I started my journey by reading and/or flicking through a couple of books: Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholme.  I read this one cover to cover, it’s well written and covers all of the basics if you’re just getting started or are incredibly rusty (like me!). CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland.... [More]