Jan Lenoch Kentico Software

Not sure how to implement personalization features in your website? In the second module of our Xperience 13 online marketing for developers course, you'll learn about that. From personalization condition types, macro rules and their translators, to custom A/B test conversions.

We have just released a new e-learning course named Kentico Xperience 13 online marketing for developers. The course explains various marketing concepts and features of Kentico Xperience to solution architects and developers. After completing the course, you will gain the knowledge and skills you need to implement online marketing features in your projects.

Last month, we released the third and most important module of the Kentico Xperience 13 for developers course—the Builders module. This completes the journey to a comprehensive developer e-learning course that prepares your team for Xperience development.

We took the job of preparing the course seriously—no stone was left unturned. But we're sure it was worth the wait.

Let's quickly summarize what you'll encounter when taking the course.

Being a Kentico Xperience developer, you certainly at least once tried to get inspiration from existing Xperience projects. Exploring an existing source code can quickly ramp-up a developer's insight into both high-level architectural patterns and individual implementation details of specific user stories. We often hear from our partners and clients that it is sometimes a bit hard to get oriented in all our sample sites and sources of code examples to pick the best practices for their own development. Let's therefore go over the sample sites and other sources one by one and compare them to see which goals they pursue, how they achieve them, and most importantly, when you should use them for inspiration.

We all ask ourselves: Where are the bad hyperlinks in our website? Are there removed pages that haven't been treated with a proper 30x redirect? Are there file download links that no longer live? In this article, we'll take on the Invalid pages report in Kentico Web Analytics and create a better alternative in Google Analytics. We'll demo the steps with our standard Dancing Goat sample site that you used in the previous articles in this series.

Do you have Google Analytics employed in your Kentico MVC website? Do you miss the Search engines report that was available in Kentico Web Analytics? This article comes to the rescue. Here's how you quickly create such report in Google Analytics (GA).

You probably feel or know that Kentico MVC and Google Analytics are a good fit. But you might not know how to integrate them properly. After reading this article, you'll be able to do that right.

If you know about online marketing features in Kentico, but you’re not sure about how Google Analytics (GA) would fit into them, you’re in the right place.

How to properly integrate Google Analytics in Kentico MVC projects? Do you miss some of the Kentico Web Analytics reports in Google Analytics? We’ve got you covered. Read on.

The process of URL resolution in MVC is fundamentally different from Portal Engine. It is a vast topic, so nobody really wants to learn it all. However, to set up robust yet simple routing that will make your editors happy, you just need to know a few basics. Are you ready?

The first part of this article demonstrated how Kentico Online Forms were included in the Dancing Goat ASP.NET MVC 5 sample site. This second part of the article shows how to automate the implementation of Kentico Online Forms (and eventually other FormEngine data) in MVC sites. The article will also tell you how to create a new Online Form in Kentico from scratch and how to include it in an MVC site.

Note: The article was adjusted to support Kentico 10!

This how-to article explains how Kentico Online Forms are included in the Dancing Goat ASP.NET MVC 5 sample site by using best practices. Those practices include usage of the view model design pattern, the repository pattern, strongly typed MVC display templates, partial views, and the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations attributes. The second part of the article will introduce a new community project—a Kentico module that would further automate the implementation of Kentico Online Forms (and possible other FormEngine data) in MVC sites. The second part of this article will also tell you how to create a new Online Form in Kentico from scratch and how to include it in an MVC site.

Note: The article was adjusted to support Kentico 10!

Even with the Roslyn compiler deployed, individual pages of Kentico can still take some time to load for the first time. This article tells you how to speed it up significantly using precompilation, even in development installations. Manual testing can then be done with very short load times.

An often requested configuration of the Smart search engine that allows searching pages not just by a character string (fulltext) but also with predefined values of page fields.

In this article, you will find out how to use a full Kentico source-code project to its maximum potential. I’ll share some tips on how to set the environment for faster development, how to apply hotfixes, and what to do for a successful breakpoint interception.

A basic implementation of Google PageMaps metadata support in Kentico 9 using the ASPX page template development model. Simple proof-of-concept implementation.