Hi there, In february 5th 2013 I saw a tweet of Kevin Williams in which he wrote the following: Thanks, @Sitecore for renewing my Xpress license this morning. Was only down for couple hours. Could we get a “license expires in 7 days”? (https://twitter.com/williamsk000/status/298851632127549440) And when I saw that tweet, I noticed that the same problem already happened to me before and probably to many more. Ever seen the following screens? or I have to admit it’s a pain in the ass, More Info »

Recently I got a question from one of our partners for a field in which a user can select multiple images and also have a overview of the selected images. Of course there are a few available fieldtypes but there was a requirement to select the images in one dialog window. A example of this was the TreelistEx field, but that field only shows the images as tiny icons with the name of the image next to it. So I made a More Info »

In Sitecore you can personalize your website with conditions and actions using the Rules Engine (so called Conditional Rendering rules).  In Sitecore 6.5 the interface for defining conditional rendering rules is integrated in to the page-editor, this way it´s easier for the marketeer to create and maintain pesonalization rules. But as a developer you want to create predefined rules and activate them on the template standard values, the same way personalisation was working in Sitecore 6.4. This is still posible with 6.5 only by default the More Info »

Tired of switching between the Master and Core database during development? Making the mistake of making changes on the wrong database? Install the Customized Startbar Module. This module will do multiple things, but the main two things that I really like are: You can add buttons to the Quicklaunch bar. Add the database name next to the database icon (bottom right) The startbar before installation The startbar after installation You can download the Customized Startbar module from trac: http://trac.sitecore.net/CustomizedStartbar/ (Thanks to Alistair More Info »

To make thinks easier for the business-users you can use Icons for templates. This is a great way to make the business-user recognize the different types of content they can create. But did you know you can also use icons for your Fieldsections? Set Icon with the webinterface You can set icons for Fieldsections the same way as you do for your templates. Just open the content editor, expand a template and underneath a template you will find all your FieldSections. Select More Info »