Export your document types to quickly get your changes from your local machine to your live server.

Here's how to use an xslt macro with the TinyMCE richtext editor in Umbraco to allow content editors to easily embed nicely formatted images with captions into their content.

When you blog about something on your website, you want people to know about it. The more people that know about it the better. And the more blog search engines that know about it, the better it is for your search engine optimisation (SEO). This post describes one way of increasing the exposure of your blog using a simple Umbraco package called PingXMLRPC.

I had a couple of problems on the new Web Garden Umbraco v4.0.1 with Windows Live Writer 2009 integration. In this blog post I describe the issues that I had and the solution to those issues.

At last I have gotten around to upgrading the Web Garden site to the latest version of Umbraco. Here are the details of some of the packages that I installed, including site compression, image caching, google sitemap, new blog package for Umbraco v4 and some other features that may be of interest.

I previously blogged about a simple Umbraco helper class to get Umbraco data into your usercontrols, but since then I've updated it quite a bit. Due to ongoing efforts to package up my code into more easily re-usable chunks, I've created a new class library, WebGarden.Utilities, that I just add to each new project. It gives me access to a number of handy functions, a few of which I'm going to share here (the more general purpose ones).

For those of you not following @umbraco on twitter (why not?), Niels has just announced that the registrations are open for Codegarden 2009 in Copenhagen!

I usually use an Umbraco Helper class with my user controls to encapsulate any business logic that interacts with Umbraco. Here are a couple of very basic, general purpose methods which you can use to start easily pulling Umbraco data into your user controls.

I am just back from a two week break in the sun, the batteries are recharged and there is plenty of work to be done!

I just discovered that my basic SEO strategy has paid off - Web Garden is on the first page of Google search results after three short months! And the search phrase? Umbraco developer of course!