Creative Web Specialist - An online portfolio and resource site of Warren Buckley

Hello Warren,

My skin (http://test.webbytes.org/home.aspx) is almost fineshed. Tell me what you think and if yu can use it.

cheers,
Jos van der Vleuten

Thank you for sharing. I will test it soon - first I need to get the blog package for Umbraco v3. Do you know where to get it?

Got it. Found it on SVN. But needs some fixes to run on v3.02.

Hi,
Installed Umbraco for the first time, downloaded your Creative Website package from the Steps at end of installed. Overcame the Asset permissions issues and now I have your site running. But what do I do next? How do I get back to the Administration of my Umbraco site. Unbelievable and fustrating to get dumped with no info of what to do next. It taken longer to look for info, than the install of the site
Information please - all I have is http://localhost, and the pages of My Company - Congratuations you have successfully…

Hi Jrad,
Thanks for installing my starter website package for Umbraco.

My site is an extension to umbraco and has nothing to do with how you login into umbraco.

However I recommend you read the installation documentation on the Umbraoc website.

http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/install-umbraco-30-on-windows-vista/congratulations!

I hope this helps.
Warren

Ah, thank you for your response. The link you provided is faultly, but those instructions are what I used to install Umbraco. Nevertheless, I cannot find a User Guide on their site but found one on a general Google search. This document told me about http://localhost/umbraco/login.aspx. Since I installed your site at the end of the Umbraco install, and got faced with the permission errors, you’ll perhaps can see why I was confused. Please be aware that this will trip up any complete beginner - after Umbraco install http://localhost gets you to a login page. After installing your site, http://localhost gets you to your site - and apparently the login has disappeared. It’s not intuitative to use http://localhost/umbraco as the previous instructions have said that virtual directory use is not supported.

Anyway, I now have access and can experiment with your site - thank you for your time in creating and making it available, but I now have a problem with upgrading to your latest version of 0.9.7 If I try to run the (ie right click on Macro) installer again on the downloaded zip, renamed to umb, I just get a Server error.

Perhaps you can point me in the direction of some upgrade (as opposed to install) instructions, and in general, if I change the content, will any upgrade revert it back to your original conent.

Is this website ( creativewebspecialist.co.uk) all a Umbraco site?

Many thanks
John

the one in the repository is still 0.96…

Hiya Harald,
Thanks for reminding me, I get in touch with Niels to arrange for this to be updated.

Warren

if I have v0.96 installed, what’s the easiest way to upgrade?

Hiya Warren hows it going? I’ve just started on with Umbraco, my work uses it to output xml to their flex apps. Ive managed to get v.3.0.2 working on my hosted server, install the package went fine - problem i get is that to browse the page just returns a blank page. I think its more likely my server config - but do you know anything i could check. The wizard installer went fine, i can see all the files there under developer/setting/content etc.. except when i click on the Home Link and then preview i just get a blank aspx page.
Grateful for any tips you might be able to give me… quite happy to send u login details if u have time - id be so stoked to get this running :)
thanks a bunch!
Mike

Hi… You write “NOTE: Remember to rename the .zip file to .umb”. Could you please elaborate…? All I need to do when I have downloadet your package is:

1) rename folder to .umb
2) place it with all other umbraco folders

Or am I missing something here? Thanks…

Hello Thomas,
To install this package - the best way is to use the NEW in built package repository for Umbraco.

Goto –> Developers.
Right click Macros and Select Import Package.

From here you can either browse the repository, to ensure you have the latest version/s of peoples packages or you can upload the package you have downloaded from here (the .umb)

If anything is unclear or if you have any more questions please feel free to ask.

Is the skin from test.webbytes.org avaliable to download?? I like that layout and colors for my site

Hello Trent I have looked at that URL and it seems that the website is not based on my umbraco website package at all.

Unfortunately I cannot create this CSS theme for you, if you wish to modify my website package you will need to do this yourself.

This package was designed to help beginners learn Umbraco, I recommend you try and modify it yourself in order for you to learn it.

I’m attempting to set up Umbraco for a local charity - I’ve used your website package for a starting point. I’m getting errors anywhere that the XSLT is used:
Error parsing XSLT file: \xslt\ListNewsEventsOnHome.xslt

And, adding the debug trace, I see:
Error parsing XSLT ListNewsEventsOnHome.xslt
The value of the ‘order’ attribute must be ‘ascending’ or ‘descending’. An error occurred at {path}\xslt\ListNewsEventsOnHome.xslt(36,1).

I did a quick Google search and come up with another domain that has the default installation that has the same issue.

I’ve been poking around a bit and unfortunately don’t seem to be familiar enough with Umbraco to properly diagnose this. So, any input that you can point me in is much appreciated.

-Doug

Installed umbraco yesterday (took less than an hour), and installed your umbraco package today. Breeze to install, pretty layout, nice clean readable HTML. I love it. Great work!

I now realize that I had issues with the installation. And, looking at my list of Macros, everythign was shown 3 times. Something must have failed part-way through.

I ended up having a friend whos installation worked - so, I poked through his setup and compared the differences to mine. I made the following changes to my Umbraco and things are working swimmingly:
1) Developer –> Data Types: Create Data Type
- Name: Sort By List

2) Developer –> Data Types: Create Data Type
- Name: Sort Order List

3) Settings –> Document Types: News and Events List Page
- Generic Properties, Add New Property
- Name: Sort By

4) Settings –> Document Types: News and Events List Page
- Generic Properties, Add New Property
- Name: Sort Order

5) Content –> Home: Edit News & events
- Settings, set properties for Sort By and Sort Order

6) Settings –> Document Types: Galleries List Page
- Generic Properties, Add New Property
- Name: Sort By

7) Settings –> Document Types: Galleries List Page
- Generic Properties, Add New Property
- Name: Sort Order

8) Content –> Home: Edit Galleries
- Settings, set properties for Sort By and Sort Order

-Doug

Warren - thanks for this super useful for a newbie Umbraco developer.

Doug,

I am having the exact same issue that you had and I am curious, what was the specific settings for the Sort By and Sort Order properties that you set?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Paul

Warren,

Many thanks for releasing this package for Umbraco. I have just used it on my first Umbraco based site, and it contained pretty much everything we needed :)

Nick

Thanks for this template, it has really helped me learn Umbraco.

I thought Umbraco was bobbins till I started delving into what it can do using your template as a guide it’s really whet my whistle.

Cheers

Warren,

Thats a nice package for beginners.
Is it possible to get hold of the Data/Assets/theme_one/Feature/Home_Feature.gif without the text, as I really like it but need to replace the text

Kind Regards
Bo

Hi Bo,
Thanks for your positive feedback, unfortuantely I have lost the original PSD and will not be able to provide you the ehader you are after.

If you look around you can find free brushes on www.brusheezy.com that I used.

Warren

Loved your template. Great starter package to get you started with Umbraco. I started with it, and have since ripped it apart, but I did want to give you a bit of feedback…

Your OpenSearch functionality is broken in your distribution package. Your [XSLT] OpenSearch macro has the following definition in the install package..

The last “short name” should be something like “siteUrl”. Until that is fixed, OpenSearch attempts receive a 500 error code.

Secondly, in your MasterTemplate, you might want to change the OpenSearch link to use the “new” alternate template mechanism for v3 of Umbraco.

Instead of “/search-results.aspx?alttemplate=OpenSearch” it is now “/search-results/OpenSearch.aspx”

Thanks for the great template!

Thanks Dekker500 for the feedback, it is always good to receive input.

Im aware of some bugs in this release and I need to find the time to iron them out, write some documentation to make it nice & polished.

Warren

Hi Warren,

Thanks for the package, perfect for newbies like me. Now, by mistake I erased all the template info in the text page template. Is there a way for me to reload it, or can you just give the text to me? TIA!

Feivi

Hi Feivi,
What I recommend for you to do, as a learning process is to download my packaga again (zip). Unzip the file and open the package.xml file and look in the template section to find the template XHTML you need.

//Warren

Hello Mr. Warren,

First I’d like to thank you for your great effort and your continuous support.
I’m 2 years+ Experience (ASP.Net)(C#) but it’s getting much hard over here to deal with umbraco, I could find a user guide (Step by Step) to demonstrate how can I use it. I’ve surfed umbraco.org for hours (Documentation Section) but couldn’t reach anything, so I can wonder if you can help me finding a user guide.

I have another question.
I’ve already downloaded a package from the Marcos but when I tried to import your package over the existing one I’ve got an error.
can I have more than site or I should delete the existing one to use yours ?

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,

Mohamed Allam
Software Engineer

Hello Mohamed,
I recommend you look at my package in detail and pull all the components apart and try to understand how they work.

If you have any specific questions, the forum is a great place to ask questions - http://forum.umbraco.org

Yes installing my package over an existing site can cause errors and problems, what I recommend is that you start from a clean umbraco installation and then install my website package from the Umbraco repository (v0.9.8)

//Warren

I have installed your package on my Umbarco site and I tried to reconfigure it but I cannot seem to find any documentation on how to alter the page layout. Is there a place I can find documentation on how to change the page layout?

Hi
How do I install the extention in Umbraco?

Hi
How do I install the extention in Umbraco?

Hi "The Sniper" to install this in V3 of umbraco you need to goto the Developer Section Right click on the macros folder and select upload a package (or something similarly named).

You can either browse from the repository which I highly recommend as I think the one in the umbraco package repository is the latest version or alternatively select upload a package file which you then browse to the zip file and press upload and go through the steps.

Any problems let me know.

Thanks,
Warren

Hi Great thanks that worked.
I have downloadet a blog extention can I get it to run in you template ?
If yes how do I do that ?

@The Sniper I think it can be done but i dont think it will work out of the box as it will try to install a blog node at the root in the content section.

Give it a go, but I won't be able to help you integrating the blog with it much. Best place is the forum - http://forum.umbraco.org

I newly installed Umbraco v3.02. How do make changes in the home page and what are the ways to insert new pages in that website. Now i install you website package. i need your help