As I suggested in part 1 of this series, I recently discovered the wonderful world of jQuery, the “write less, do more javascript library”. And sure enough, this is one tool that really lives up to its name! Not only can you do all sorts of neat (even useful!) javascript effects and events, but they […]
Month: October 2008
These days, a feature that city websites should never be without is the banner rotator, that is, an image up at the top of the site that cycles through various featured photos. The City of McAllen naturally was no exception, as you can see for yourself. The problem was that, being relatively inexperienced in Javascript, […]
To wrap up this series of posts, I’m going to briefly show you how to extend the Rss Feed Classes to enable support for podcasts. This is the exact same process I took to create my own Dark Synthesis Podcast, which is publishing entries from the the Generic Content Module. The Generic Content module doesn’t […]
As I mentioned in part one of this series, building an Rss feed for the Generic Content Module (or any module for that matter) requires three classes, RssChannelProvider, RssSettings, and RssView (plus the rss feed settings user control). We already covered the basic RssView, so now in this part we take a more detailed […]
After finally getting my music back online earlier this week, the next logical step was to get my Dark Synthesis Podcast back online. Unfortunately, Sitefinity (the CMS this site uses) does not have built in support for podcasts. In fact, the Generic Content Module (which I am using to publish my music, and eventually hopefully […]