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Content reference selector with direct file upload now available as package

Some time ago (in October last year to be exact) I developed an extension to the built-in content selector with support for direct upload.

Why is user experience design important?

• Design

Why is the user experience so important, and why should your e-commerce store allocate time to focus on this design process?

Introducing Geta.EpiCategories: Categories as localizable IContent

• Development

• Optimizely

For quite a long time I've been wondering if Episerver is going to do anything about the built-in category functionality. I feel it's pretty outdated and it's not so convenient to edit and localize categories. I guess the teams at Episerver are busy with other, more important stuff, so I decided to create a module. Say hello to Geta.EpiCategories.

Summary of my blog posts

• E-commerce

• Experimentation

During my journey at Geta I have created seven different blog posts and one thing they all have in common is that they all focus on strategy. Here is a summary of them all with a direct link into each of the singular blog post.

Geta.Epi.Extensions updated with content editor ux helpers

• Development

• Optimizely

You might already know about our Episerver extensions package, Geta.Epi.Extensions. We have now added a set of extensions and HTML helpers to help improve user experience for content editors. The goal with the helpers is to reduce the need for "All properties view" in the Episerver edit interface.

ContentType preview images w. icons

• Development

• Optimizely

I don't know about you, but at least for me, I rarely create image thumbnails for the different content types in the solutions I am working on. If you are like me, then this package will hopefully give your editors a somewhat more pleasant user experience when creating content.

Install multiple instances of inRiver PIM

• Development

• PIM

When you are working on several inRiver PIM projects simultaneously, you find yourself in need of switching between them from time to time. One option is to change the configuration files and restart inRiver services and website. A better option is have multiple instances of inRiver PIM running on the same system. This way you can easily access the desired instance for configurations, developing and demos. This is a walk-through on how to set up multiple instances of inRiver PIM on the same system.

Extend your Episerver content types

• Development

• Optimizely

Let's say you have developed a site framework that you use on many different sites that contains some content types spread over various assemblies. Sooner or later, on at least one of the sites, you will want to add, hide or modify a property on a specific content type. You could create a new content type that inherits the original and then hide the original. No thanks. Let's do it better than that.