Štěpán Kozák

Have you heard about the new way Google can tell whether a form was submitted by a human and not a robot? However hard it may be to believe, it just takes one click in one checkbox. It is true. And if you like this new "no CAPTCHA" CAPTCHA, I have a good news for you. You can now easily use it with Kentico!

As a Solution Architect, I very often deal with clients’ websites getting slower and slower until they reach the point at which even the Kentico UI stops responding. That’s usually the point where we (the consulting department) are called in to help solve the urgent situation. Of course, we can always do something to get the website running again, but such a situation is usually caused by bad non-scalable architecture and a misconfiguration of Kentico or the IIS and could be avoided. The purpose of this article is to emphasize how important it is to think about architecture carefully when building a complex website. I’ll demonstrate this in two real-life examples.

As a Solution Architect, I'm often asked questions related to correct configuration of the Smart Search functionality, or about the Smart Search not working as expected. I‘ve prepared another "troubleshooting" poster that illustrates the proceudre I follow when trying to identify what the cause of a particular issue is with Smart Search, along with typical solutions that exist for these types of problems.

I’ve recently been getting a lot of questions about how to add custom functionality in macros. The common answer is to implement your custom macro method. It’s a pretty simple and elegant solution. It’s also really well described in our documentation as to how to register your custom method. However, it’s not described how to correctly implement the body of your method. Of course it’s up to you as it’s your custom logic ... but there are few things you need to keep in mind in order to make sure your custom method does not introduce a security issue on your website and that it’s also reusable (100% compatible with macro engine features, usable for multilingual websites, etc.). There are 4 very common mistakes I see in implementations of custom macro methods that I’ll address in this article.

As macros are now an inseparable part of most Kentico applications and are being used more and more, it is crucial to understand how the macro engine works, how to implement your websites in Kentico using macros, and how to deal with possible issues. I'd like to follow up on a recent article about macros in Kentico 8 (http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/kentico-8-technology-macro-improvements) with a macro troubleshooting poster depicting how to solve a macro-related issue.

Are you looking for a way how to extend your search indexes with a synonym search, stemming support or you want to set up a typo-tolerant search with just one click? Or maybe you want to index the content of your documents' attachments without the need of setting up the SQL attachment search?

Maybe just stop googling for a while and read what's new in Smart Search module in version 8! :-)

Did it ever happen to you that you were working on a new website in cooperation with colleagues, you edited your CSS, saved it, and then in a few minutes your changes were lost because one of your co-workers had overwritten them with their changes? … If the answer is “yes”, then the brand new Team Development feature of Kentico v7 is what you need!

Do you have a local translation service provider that you use for creating your multilingual websites? Do you like our new Translation services functionality in v7 and want to use it with your translation service provider? Read further :)

In this article we’re going to combine the power of two new features of Kentico CMS 7 to make the process of creating multilingual Web solutions simpler than ever before!

Version 7 greatly enhances the process of creating multilingual websites by introducing the support of various types of translation services. I’d like to provide you with a brief description of this brand new module which makes it easier to automate the process of creating multilingual web solutions.