If you have ever seen the Netflix show Is it Cake? you are familiar with the idea that sometimes one thing can be disguised as another to the point that they are nearly or even completely indistinguishable from each other. This can also be true when building a website and trying to separate content from well, not-content.
Organizing content into taxonomies, like article categories, is a commonplace need in web development. It's not a complex task, but it is another boring part of boilerplate to invest time into coding out. Or is it? Jen provides step-by-step instructions for saving yourself time by quickly setting up a taxonomy with her ContentModel.Umbraco.Taxonomy NuGet package.
As web professionals, we try to follow best practices in every aspect of our trade. Jen's experience with CMSes have led her to develop the best practices for building with them, which she's summarized in ten commandments for us to follow.
Umbraco's flexibility is one of its core strengths, but sometimes can be a curse when deciding which approach to use to solve a problem. Jen walks us through such a scenario, showing us how we can structure content with either nested content or reusable content, and discussing the strengths of each for deciding when to use which one.
The C in CMS stands for Content. We can help our editors be more efficient with their content by setting up their Umbraco experience to utilize blocks, both simple and complex, to make content easier to enter and more reusable. Join Jen as she shows us how we can harness Block Power!
