Entries for 'Daniel Mettler'

We believe that content management must be easy, slick and cool. A core factor to achieve that is a fast UI - in our vision, interactions should take less than 1 second. So we call it the 1-2nd vision. We've already achieved much using AJAX, angular-js, drag-and-drop upload and more. Now in 2sxc 8.4 we're introducing quick-insert, which allows inserting content and app modules in less than 1 second. 

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Providing content-editors with icon-pickers helps create awesome content. Use it to create designed tiles showing features or linking pages, or to spice up any kind of content. 

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You really need custom icon-fonts if you're serious about designed content or need buttons in your app. Here's how in 99 seconds, + after that lots of tips, tricks from real life experience.

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In modern web UX we sometimes need to ask the user something - but it's also ok if the user ignores the question. An example of this is when the user accidentally clicks the background of a modal-dialog. Here's how to implement an elegant solution using AngularJS and Angular-Toastr

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If you need to add fonts or font-icons to a remote DNN without direct file access, you need to upload the files - here's how.

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(Opinion) For years now 2sxc has promoted the merits of the DNN Client-Dependency-Management, and tried to use it wherever possible + recommended it in blogs. In reality, it hurt us badly. Bogdan from DNNSharp showed me a better way - so 2sxc now officially stops doing this, and recommend that you evaluate if this is important for you too.

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When we create apps like blogs, articles or news we often need to generate a nice, SEO-style path for the details page, which should contain the title. This looks easy - I spent over a day on this simple challenge, and would like to share what I worked out…

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We've been working with JS-Automation for about a year now, specializing more and more on Grunt. But the more we relied on it, the more we had to go out of our way to get around problems inherent to Grunt. So we gave Gulp a chance and were very, very surprised.

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I often see developers solving content challenges with the data-oriented principles. This is fundamentally wrong, like writing a sentence using letters instead of words. Such data-solutions work - but only after educating the editor in database concepts. Our customers find DNN-solutions simpler than Wordpress - because of a paradigm shift which changes everything we do. I would love to help you to see the world in this way - here's an attempt at it…

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And the devil spoke: "Let there be errors". And God Spoke: "Let there be a debugger". This is a short tutorial to get you started in cornering JavaScript errors. 

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