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

Hello all,
Well this is will be a very brief post to let you know that I have released update 0.9.9 of my Creative Website Wizard Package for Umbraco.

This release is identical as 0.9.8 which is currently in the umbraco package repository, except this version will ONLY work for Umbraco V4.

In addition to this package file and previous versions are now stored on Codeplex. This has been done as I build a new version of the package for V4 (new design, amendments etc..) You will be able to download the source and modify it to your needs.

As before if you find any MAJOR problems please let me know.

Download Creative Website Wizard version 0.9.9

Thanks,
Warren

Hello all,
After talking to Nisse Bryngfors, he requested that the URLs in tweets would automatically be made as urls and marked up with anchor tags. In addition to this he requested that @username replies were also automatically generated into anachor tags.

For example:

check out this site http://google.co.uk Nice design @warrenbuckley

would now become

check out this site
http://google.co.uk
Nice design
@warrenbuckley

This has been made possible with a new function in the XSLT Extension CWS.Twitter called FormatURLS.
So to format your tweet use this syntax in your XSLT.

Hello all,
This will be a very brief blog post this evening as I have made an update to my Twitter Umbraco Package from a request from a tweet I received from Nisse Bryngfors.

His request was as follows

@warrenbuckley just tried the twitter package for umbraco.Great!Is there any way to display people you follow,instead of just your own feed?

I decided this was so easy to implement, I would make this quick update to my package and release it as soon as possible.

I have reposted the instructions below for people who didnt use my previous version.

This package installs the following files:

• bin/CWSHelperTwitter.dll
• xslt/CWS_twitterStatus.xslt
• /usercontrols/Installer/CWSTwitter/cwsTwitterInstaller.ascx

The installer usercontrol cwsTwitterInstaller.ascx is used to modify the /config/xsltExtensions.config
to setup my custom XSLT extension to allow us to modify the strange format of the twitter date format.

The actual package installs the following into umbraco:

• Macro: [XSLT] CWS:Display Twitter Status
• XSLT: CWS_twitterStatus.xslt

Hello all,
This evening I have decided to create a nice quick package to help use Gravatar easily on your umbraco blog/site. There have been snippets on other blogs to help you achieve this, I have just created two XSLT Extensions to use in your XSLT and an example XSLT file to show how you can use the helpers.

If you haven't heard of Gravatar before, it is a service that allows you to upload an image so you can have a globally recgonised avatar on the web that is associated to your email address. The most useful scenario is on your Umbraco blog to display Gravatar images of visitors who have left comments, but you may think of some other creative scenarios you may want to use it in.

This is my Gravatar

Hello all this is my first package for 2008. I have created a quick XSLT package to allow you to display your latest twitter status’s on your website/blog.

For example here is my twitter page where you can see what upto or thinking.

This package installs the following files:

• bin/CWSHelperTwitter.dll
• xslt/CWS_twitterStatus.xslt
• /usercontrols/Installer/CWSTwitter/cwsTwitterInstaller.ascx

The installer usercontrol cwsTwitterInstaller.ascx is used to modify the /config/xsltExtensions.config
to setup my custom XSLT extension to allow us to modify the strange format of the twitter date format.

The actual package installs the following into umbraco:

• Macro: [XSLT] CWS:Display Twitter Status
• XSLT: CWS_twitterStatus.xslt