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Module Development - Packaging

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:00:00 GMT

Packaging your module is an important part of the module life cycle. Read this article to learn more about the new module packaging options which are available in Kentico 9.

Module development – Versioning & Recycle bin

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:00:00 GMT

Working with complex objects within your modules introduces a higher chance of unintentionally losing data, or changing it to values you don’t want. Read this article to learn how to set up versioning and recycle bin support for your data, which allows your users to easily recover data lost as a result of mistakes.

Module development - Order and priorities

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:30:00 GMT

Sometimes building an unordered list of objects in a Kentico custom module is not enough, especially if you have a long list, but work with a set of preferred options most of the time. This article will show you a handy option to improve the experience of your users

Module development - UI Extenders

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:45:00 GMT

Kentico offers a rich set of options that help you easily develop the UI of your modules. Still, most current projects typically require some special adjustments to simplify the interface for non-technical end users. Read this article to learn about the concept of UI extenders in Kentico and how you can leverage them to extend the available options to your liking.

Module development – Bindings

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:30:00 GMT

During custom development, you sometimes just need to create relationships between objects, rather than defining a child object with a full set of data fields. This article will lead you through the options you have when building M:N relationships in Kentico

Tips and tricks – Listing object types

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:30:00 GMT

We are often asked to expose certain internal information about Kentico that could help you work more efficiently with the system. This article provides a list of several useful macros you can use to get such information.

Module development – Parent / Child relationships

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:00:00 GMT

While developing custom functionality, you quite often need to use some deeper hierarchy in your data. Most typically, to be able to group chunks of data under a single parent to extend their semantics. Read this article to learn how to properly set this up.

Module development - Foreign keys

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:00:00 GMT

Some of the most common questions about custom development in Kentico are how to handle foreign keys in your data, and how to extend existing objects with a foreign key referencing your custom data. Read this article to master foreign key management in Kentico.

Module development – Introduction

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:10:34 GMT

Each web project nowadays is very different and has different requirements. No software out there has all the necessary features out of the box, so when it comes to special client requirements, you may need to develop your own module. These may be simple or complex depending on the situation. Join this series of module development articles to learn how easy it is to develop a new module with Kentico.

Performance tips – ObjectTransformation

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:55:46 GMT

Displaying related content in a transformation can be challenging and have consequences that you may not realize. Read this article to learn some tips and tricks that allow you to perform this task efficiently and with optimal performance.

Kentico 8 Technology - DataQuery Advanced API

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:00:00 GMT

You are already familiar with the concept of DataQuery and its basic capabilities. Now is the time to show you some more advanced stuff that you can leverage to write more complex queries. Want to learn more? Read this article.

Upgrade from Kentico 7 to Kentico 8

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:00:00 GMT

Are you planning your upgrade from Kentico 7 to Kentico 8 yet? Ever wondered how easy or hard that would be? Read this article to learn more about the upgrade process and how our tools can help you make the transition.

Kentico 8 Technology - Event handlers

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 14 May 2014 03:00:00 GMT

Event handlers have an important role in the customization of Kentico. Events allow you to attach your custom code to the various system actions, and easily add custom functionality throughout it. This article will give you more insight into how we improved event handlers in Kentico 8.

Kentico 8 Technology - DataQuery API

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:30:00 GMT

Last time I gave you an introduction to the concept of DataQuery. Now it’s time to show you its capabilities in more detail using specific examples. Read this article to learn more.

API Changes in Kentico 8

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:30:00 GMT

Improving API to be able to follow the latest trends and make it efficient is an important part of any platform life-cycle. This article will give you more insight into the API changes made in Kentico 8, and also explain the reasons why these changes have been implemented.

Kentico 8 Technology - Introduction to DataQuery

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:20:47 GMT

Kentico 8 comes with a brand new API that simplifies the manner in which you can query data from a database. Read this article to learn more!

An overview of Kentico 8 features

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:00:00 GMT

Kentico 8 has now officially been released, and It is my pleasure to introduce you all to the great new features that it brings. Lots of feedback was incorporated, the whole UI was redesigned to provide better user experience, and the overall architecture behind the platform was heavily improved as well. Learn more in this article...

See you at the Module Development session at Kentico Connection 2013

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 06:30:28 GMT

My name is Martin Hejtmanek, and as Chief Technical Officer here at Kentico software, I look forward to seeing you all at Kentico Connection 2013.

You told us that you wanted more sessions focused on development best practices on the Kentico platform, so we have prepared a whole bunch of them for you this year, including my own!

Using statement vs. thread abort not calling Dispose

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:00:33 GMT

I have come across solving a problem around using statement and locks that I believe is worth sharing with everyone. Short version: Be REALLY careful when using the using statement ... Long version: See the article ...

Using MVC Razor With Kentico CMS 7

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:18:34 GMT

As you may know, we have improved our MVC support in Kentico CMS 7. Let's see how you can easily use Razor view engine to render your content.

Upgrade from Kentico CMS v7 RC to v7 Final

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:17:25 GMT

We promised to deliver the upgrade from v7 RC to v7 Final by the end of this week; here it is. Read the article to learn more ...

API Changes From Kentico CMS 6 to 7

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:55:24 GMT

Kentico CMS 7 final has been released and upgrades from earlier versions are on their way. Here is a list of changes in the API you may want to know about ...

Kentico CMS 7 Released - Full feature list

Martin Hejtmanek — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:07:01 GMT

Here it is - Kentico CMS v7 final has been officially released. It gives you a lot of new options for developing your web sites as well as improved existing features. Check out this article to see what is new...

Kentico CMS User Group Presents: Here Comes Version 7!

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:59:05 GMT

It’s almost time for Version 7! It’s an amazing list of productivity and feature enhancements. This Online User group features Kentico CTO, Martin Hejtmanek. In this interactive online user group session Martin showed some of his personal favorites and why he thinks they are important for Kentico users and developers.

Slides available here

New development teams in Kentico

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:35:56 GMT

Our company is growing together with our product. I just want to briefly introduce our new teams so you know who is best to talk to about particular topics.

Introducing Kentico CMS 7 RC

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:33:00 GMT

8 months after the release of Kentico CMS 6, I am happy to announce our Release Candidate version of Kentico CMS 7. Read this article to learn more details...

Improved MVC support in Kentico CMS v7

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:06:58 GMT

Given the recent events around Umbraco v5, I feel that now is the right time to let you know what we are doing in regards to MVC support in version 7. Read this article to learn more...

Kentico CMS v7 Release Plan Update

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:13:56 GMT

Product quality and value are very important to us, and that is why we have given a second thought to our release plan for Kentico CMS version 7. Read this article to learn more details...

Cookies Used in Kentico CMS 6

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:29:59 GMT

Here comes a list of cookies and their levels in Kentico CMS version 6 as a follow up to the Cookie law support blog post.

Cookie Law Support in Kentico CMS 6

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:36:00 GMT

The May 26th 2012 deadline for "Cookie law" compliance is near. Updated cookie helper and web parts to comply are now available through hotfixes. Check out this article to see what is new.

Kentico CMS 6.0 SP1

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:52:35 GMT

We have just released a fully tested version of Kentico CMS 6.0, with all found bugs version 6.0 fixed.

Kentico CMS 6.0 Performance report

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:50:43 GMT

We have just finalized an official performance report for Kentico CMS 6.0.

From developers to developers - K#

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:17:57 GMT

Kentico CMS version 6 comes with a brand new macro language called K#, let's see what it brings and how powerful it is.

Changes in the API from version Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 to 6

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:41:45 GMT

Since Kentico CMS 6 is a huge release, we had also spent a lot of time on reviewing the API. Let's see what changes you may expect and how to update your custom code.

Final upgrade procedure from Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 to 6.0

Martin Hejtmanek — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:56:55 GMT

As promised, the final version of upgrade from Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 to version 6 is ready.

Online marketing guide and Integration guide finished

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:56:11 GMT

We have finished a couple of guides that should help you learn the new features of Kentico CMS 6.

Upgrade from 5.5 R2 to 6.0

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:25:47 GMT

It took us quite a time, but the first version of upgrade from 5.5 R2 to 6.0 is finally ready.

Code customization in Kentico CMS 6

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:59:52 GMT

Kentico CMS version 6 comes with a reviewed customization options which give you more flexibility. This article describes what the changes are and how they simplify your work.

Webinar: Kentico Online CMS User Group Presents: Here Come’s Version 6!

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:11:51 GMT

It’s almost time for Version 6! It’s an amazing list of productivity and usability features. Do you know about the Kentico Online Marketing Suite (KEMS)? Attend the Kentico Online User Group to hear Kentico CTO Martin Hejtmanek talk about his favorites. In this interactive online user group session Martin will show his personal favorites and why he thinks they are important for Kentico users and developers.

Note: Unfortunately, we had some technical issues and were unable record the first part of the webinar. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Last Kentico CMS Import Toolkit for 5.5 R2

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:34:33 GMT

Kentico CMS 6 is almost ready to be shipped as well as the functionality of the Import toolkit application is being close for this version. Here is the last version that will be provided for version 5.5 R2.

Kentico CMS 6 is Coming! - Full Feature List

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:09:48 GMT

It has been a busy year for the whole development department here at Kentico Software, but it was totally worth it. Kentico CMS 6 is almost ready to go final and you deserve to know how we spent our time on it. Here is a full feature list ...

Feedback needed - Cookie law

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:29:57 GMT

There are some new laws about user privacy out there that make all our lives a little more complicated. We would like to cover that somehow so we need to hear your expertise on it ...

Kentico CMS Import Toolkit 5.5R2 Alpha 2

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:52:28 GMT

We have spent a significant amount of time, tweaking the Import Toolkit utility to cover your feedback, and finally, here it is ...

Kentico CMS Posters for developers

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:56:53 GMT

If you want to have the summarized information about Kentico CMS on the wall in your office, this post is just for you.

Kentico Online CMS User Group Presents: Martin’s top 5 for V5

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:39:01 GMT

The Product Group has diligently been working away on the release of Kentico V5. It’s an amazing list of features, functionality and capabilities. But everyone has their personal favorites. Attend the first Kentico Online user group meeting to hear Kentico CTO Martin Hejtmanek talk about his five favorites. In this interactive online user group session Martin will show his personal favorites and why he thinks they are important for Kentico users and developers.

Kentico Online CMS User Group Presents: Martin’s Favorite New Features in 5.5 R2

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:42:18 GMT

The product group has been diligently working away on the next release of Kentico CMS 5.5 R2. In this session of the Kentico online user group meeting hear Kentico CTO Martin Hejtmanek talk about his favorites.

How to: Resolving the inline controls

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:28:08 GMT

Some of you have already used the inline controls, others just know they are there, the rest doesn't even know they exist. They can be a powerful feature, but sometimes, you may not know how to use them, especially if you use them on ASPX templates.

Using ASP.NET MVC with Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:33:15 GMT

We got a lot of questions on how you could use MVC within a Kentico CMS web site. Now it is finally the time for the answer...

Setting up Windows Authentication

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:42:41 GMT

Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 comes with an intranet solution sample site so we expect increased number of installations using Windows authentication. See how to efficiently move from Forms authentication to Windows authentication ...

10 Rules to make sure your security is set up right

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:32:59 GMT

Setting up your security while you start working on a project may be quite a challenge. You need to make sure that you didn't forget anything. Here are some basics that you should take care of ...

Kentico CMS and WebDAV support

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:15:54 GMT

Intranet sites typically serve also for document management which requires specific features. One of them is direct editing of the documents without the need to save the files manually to the temporary location and reupload them after edit ...

Kentico CMS Developer posters are coming

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:34:47 GMT

Have you ever wondered if Kentico would ever create some nice informational posters for your clipboards? The answer is YES!

How ASP.NET Security Vulnerability affects Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:04:14 GMT

There is a lot of buzz about recently published ASP.NET security vulnerability and it truly is important. Read this post to see how it may affect your sites ... right now if you can!

DIY: How to handle robots.txt and favicon.ico in a multisite environment

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:24:23 GMT

Very often question with very easy solution. See how to do it, there are no workarounds, it can be done with standard settings and approaches ...

Deep dive: Cache dependencies

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:39:34 GMT

Cache dependencies are the single most often topic we always discuss with our larger clients and since the behavior may not be that obvious at the beginning, I decided to explain them in more details to everyone ...

Documentation improvements & Feedback

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:38:24 GMT

Part of our reviewed documentation needs some feedback from you to make it even better.

Kentico CMS 5.5 Import Toolkit

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:54:35 GMT

Here is a brand new application for importing data to Kentico CMS projects. Try it and give us some feedback.

Using multiple page placeholders in Portal engine

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:53:05 GMT

Kentico CMS 5.5 contains one nice, so far undocumented prototype that allows you to use multiple page placeholders on your portal engine pages. Let's see how you can use it ...

Kentico CMS 5.5 Performance report

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:36:49 GMT

Here comes the performance report for Kentico CMS 5.5. Better stability, more efficient under heavy conditions ...

DIY: How to make a chat module

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:14:47 GMT

Are you missing the chat functionality in Kentico CMS? Don't you want to integrate with other solutions? Read this to see how simple it is to create your own chat module ...

New twitter account

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:42:25 GMT

The time has come for me to register on twitter and give you some more insights on what is going on here at the technical side.

New in 5.5: Macro improvements

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:22:40 GMT

There was a lot of macro parameters in 5.0 already, so having twice as much in 5.5 seems almost unbelievable. Let's see what is new ...

New in 5.5: Caching API changes

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:11:05 GMT

There are some changes in the caching API so it can perform better, let's review them ...

New in 5.5: Provide your classes from App_Code

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:46:51 GMT

5.5 is out for some time and you sure deserve to know what is new. You sure know about the standard features you can see, but there are also some API improvements or things that haven't yet been in the Beta version. So here is the first one of them ...

DIY: How to make the zone auto refresh

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:51:42 GMT

In this brief article, I will show you an example how you can very simply make yourselves the support for web part zones which content automatically refreshes with given period of time.

Kentico CMS 5.0 Performance report

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:22:44 GMT

It has taken a significant amount of time but the performance report for Kentico CMS 5.0 is finally here.

DIY: How to apply custom output filter

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:01:35 GMT

In this article, we will look at the extensibility of the output filter module and how you can customize it with your own code.

Webinar 5 - Multilingual support in Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:25:24 GMT

Here is one webinar that will teach you something about the multilingual content support, what are the basics and also what is inside.

Debugging options in Kentico CMS 5.0

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:44:08 GMT

Version 5.0 comes with many improvements in debugging options. You cannot find the details about them in the documentation, so I thought I would give you some brief overview what is available for you ...

URL Routing with Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:22:01 GMT

Does Kentico CMS support URL routing? Read this article to learn more ...

Upgrade package from 4.1 to 5.0 released

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:01:47 GMT

The upgrade package was finally released, let's see how you can get it.

Deep dive - New transaction management in 5.0

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:43:31 GMT

If you closely checked the version 5.0, you could notice in our code and documentation that the recommended way how to work with transactions has changed. Read this article about the details ...

Webinar 4 - Macros in Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:49:16 GMT

I couldn't publish the next webinar sooner due to technical and time reasons so here it is.

SEO tip: Canonical link elements in Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:45:20 GMT

The canonical link element is a feature which Google, Microsoft and Yahoo announced together to provide a better SEO options. Even that Kentico CMS does not support it directly yet, you can quite easily make this happen. Check out how ...

MVC and Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:05:25 GMT

There is a lot of questions lately from our clients whether Kentico CMS supports MVC or not. This question is kind of tricky, this article elaborates the details about this topic.

Optimization tip: Write better code, disable Output filter

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:50:22 GMT

Output filter is a quite powerful feature that can fix you code to be more valid, but also comes with quite an overhead. Here is the overview of it's possibilities and what which of them you really need. Did you know you can get much better performance without it? Read further ...

Webinar 3 - URL rewriting and processing in Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:17:23 GMT

Here comes the third webinar from me, hopefully it will be useful for you.

AJAX not working properly with Chrome or newer versions of Safari?

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:04:36 GMT

Read this, this may save you a lot of time if you have problems making your controls work properly with update panels and AJAX. There is way too few information about this on the internet which makes it hard to find. Hopefully this one will serve better than the others.

Optimization tip: Speed up your images and files

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:37:18 GMT

Did you consider various file settings according to your projects structure when you designed them? If not, you may want to think about it now.

Early preview of version 5.0

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:02:10 GMT

Behold! The version 5.0 is almost on its way to your homes and offices, so if you want to know what will be new, check it out here.

Optimization tip: Are your menus and controls cache efficient?

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:18:06 GMT

If you are struggling with your apllication consuming too much memory, it may be caused by your menus overusing the cache. Read further to see what you can do about it.

How would you like your web part categories?

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:06:04 GMT

We want to know how do you feel about current structure of web part categories and what are your thoughts about possible restructurization of them.

Webinar 2 - Performance optimization and caching in Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:46:18 GMT

Our second webinar is finally available to everyone.

Minimum security requirements for Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:25:41 GMT

We are quite often asked on the minimum security requirements for Kentico CMS to be able to run. It is quite hard to cover that because it depends on what particular things you need to do, read more if you want to learn the details ...

Webinar - Advanced content transformations in Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:09:51 GMT

As promised, here comes the recording from our first webinar.

We need to know if we can eliminate IE 6.0 from the admin UI

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:14:17 GMT

A poll for you to determine if supporting IE 6.0 is really necessary.

My apologies to everyone who missed the webinar

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:40:47 GMT

I know now one thing for sure now: The GMT does not include the summer time. The webinar was one hour sooner that it was supposed to be!

Deep dive - New customization options in Kentico CMS 4.1

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:25:17 GMT

As I promised, I bring the details of new customization features of Kentico CMS 4.1. Just don't read this post if you don't have any previous experience, because it could just confuse you. At least study the basics and see the API before you start.

Debugging .NET applications with WinDbg

Martin Hejtmanek — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:48:31 GMT

This time nothing from my head, but just a link to a great web site about debugging I found recently.

Sharepoint connector demo video

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:40:17 GMT

Here is something you may need if you plan to integrate your web site with Sharepoint. I created a short video of what it can give you. See for yourselves.

First Kentico CMS Webinar

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:31:47 GMT

Yesterday was an important day in the Kentico history. We successfully did our very first partner webinar. Here are some of my comments to it.

10 new things I value most in Kentico CMS 4.1

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:52:44 GMT

Kentico CMS 4.1 is out, I owe you a lot of blog posts recently, so I thought I will give you the brief overview of what is best on 4.1 in comparisson to 4.0.

Which technologies are you planning to use for your next projects?

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:29:45 GMT

A little poll for you. We are interested in the versions of Microsoft products you plan to use with Kentico CMS in your next projects.

How to add custom modules to Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:55:47 GMT

The customization series continues. Today, we will go through the creation of your own modules and what is available for you in this case.

How to setup two nested web sites with Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:48:17 GMT

Another topic I am often asked and when the clients try it on their own, they get confused sometimes. So hopefully this will end all the confusion, and you will learn what is the right way to do this.

Custom dropdowns managed by the editors in a few minutes

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:58:12 GMT

I noticed that our current documentation for Custom tables is missing one important piece which may not be obvious, so just for case I want to show you how you can do custom selectors managed by the Kentico CMS UI.

How to effectively customize Kentico CMS UI

Martin Hejtmanek — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:18:34 GMT

UI customization is an often topic in our discussions with clients. I put together a few examples and best practices of how you can do things so they are upgrade procedure proof and done as easy as you can.

Web slices and Accelerators with Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:13:33 GMT

This post will show you how you can use the new features of Internet Explorer 8, called Web slices and Accelerators with Kentico CMS.

How to create web site from scratch

Martin Hejtmanek — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:49:29 GMT

This post will give you a simple tutorial how you can create your simple web site using the predefined HTML code and CSS.

ASPX versus Portal Engine development in Kentico CMS

Martin Hejtmanek — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:51:04 GMT

We are often asked about the two development models we offer in our solution, specifically which model the customers should use for their development, which one is better and what are the differences. This post should help you when you are not familiar with these differences to decide which one would you like to use for your development.