When Mike discovered that the icon fonts used in the Umbraco backoffice create accessibility issues for users with dyslexia, he ended upon a two-year journey to create an accessible solution with SVGs that wouldn't break the backoffice in the process. He describes for us why it was a problem, and the steps he and and other developers took to fix it to make Umbraco an even friendlier CMS.
In the first of a three-part series about running Umbraco on Azure, Aaron walks us through the Azure services we need to run Umbraco, what they do, and why he thinks Azure is in most cases the better option over dedicated environments.
Landing pages and lead capture forms are a fundamental part of marketing and sales led websites. Fortunately Umbraco lends itself well to the needs of Marketers for a quick turn around without the need for developers to get involved in the creation of new landing pages. In this first article in a series exploring areas of common practice in Umbraco, Matt and Paul investigate ways to create landing pages and lead capture forms.
AROUND THE WEB
a curated collection of things around the web
Migrate from MySQL to SQL Server
When v8 was released, it deprecated the support of MySQL databases. So what do you do (other than a full rebuild) if you want to migrate a v7 site using MySQL to v8? Sébastien has written a great article to walk you through all the steps and save you a headache!
Have you been waiting with baited breath for the Full Text Search package to be released for v8? So have we! Well, Søren released it just this week, so you've got to go give it a look.
Matt's released a fantastic new version of his amazing tool that automates setting up your IIS Development Environment, now with a -Path argument! If you're looking speed up your development set up, you should give it a go.
At times, it's incredibly important to keep a page named a specific thing and an ID alone isn't sufficient. But how do you stop a user from changing a page name? Paul is here with a zippy article to help you out!