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

Hello all.

Well it’s been a while sine I last posted on my blog and there has been a good reason for it, as I have been squirreling away and working on the NEW Creative Website Starter for Umbraco aka CWS2.

With CWS2 I have teamed up with ex-collegue and great designer Sam Grady of G-72 to give CWS a lovely lick of paint. If you have seen my previous CWS you can tell I was no designer :)

With this new version comes the following:

• A focus for this site to be used to help teach new users to the Umbraco CMS platform.
• .NET usercontrols written in C#
• XSLT & .NET code heavily commented to help understand what is going on.

What’s the plan for the future?

Now CWS2 is released my main focus is to write two documents, the first is an installation and how to configure CWS2 document and the second document is a technical explanation of how the site works and what the code is doing.

Download

You can download Creative Website Starter (CWS2) for Umbraco here on Codeplex.

Feedback

If you have any suggestions for CWS2 please put them here on the discussions on the CWS2 Codeplex project and if you come across any bugs for CWS2 please post them on the issue tracker on Codeplex.

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,
Well this is a quick blog post to let you know I have made a minor path update to the Creative Website package, which creates the Assets folder in the “Data” folder located at the Root as opposed to having the “Assets” folder in the root because of people reporting permission issues with this and the JS folder has been moved to the NEW “Scripts” folder in V3 of umbraco.

Well once I am more settled I plan to look at the Umbraco forums and keep up with all the blog posts - but this will now be out of office hours because my current position does not use Umbraco at the new company where I work.

Hello all,
I have updated the package from Douglas Robar’s feedback with XSLT Search 2.0 not being configured correctly.

With this update I would like to annouce that this package is now live in the NEW v3 umbraco repository. So you can download this website package right inside umbraco.

Keep your eyes peeled - as plans are for a Website Package with a CSS Switcher and theme gallery.

Hello all,
This post will be brief and to the point. I have updated the Creative Website Wizard for umbraco with a minor update.

This update includes Douglas Robar’s XSLT Search version 2.0 which now works with umbraco V3- “hurrah I hear you cry!”