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So… you just restored the backup of the EPiServer project database, copied the VPP directory and set its new location in the web.config, created a new website in IIS for the .net files, open the browser and everything seems to be fine… except that the images located in the VPP folders do not show. More

• Two out of three people on the planet visit social networks (Nielsen, 2009)
• In fact, in February the largest age group on Twitter was 35-49; with nearly 3 million unique visitors, comprising almost 42 percent of the site’s audience.  (Nielsen, 2009)
• 73% of active online world wide users have read a blog (McCann, 2008)
• 52% of consumers have blogged about a product or service (Razorfish, 2009)
• Companies are slashing print budgets by 37% and TV by 21% (eMarketer, 2009)
• Twitter.com was the fastest-growing Web brand in May 2009, increasing 1,448 percent year over- year, from 1.2 million unique visitors in May 2008 to 18.2 million in 2009 (Nielsen, 2009)
• Estimated online advertising spending on the top social network and blogging sites increased 119 percent, from approximately $49 million in August 2008 to approximately $108 million in August 2009 – all despite a recession (Nielsen, 2009)
• Mobile phones subscriptions are now 270 million, out of 307 million US adults.(For a comparison, mobile phones were in 51 million households at the start of the decade, but back then having more than one phone per household was unusual.) Back in 1999 phones were phones. Now they are iPhones, Blackberries, and Androids -- computers and internet access devices. (Forrester, 2009)
• Folks that put in the time and energy to build a foundation over the last 2 years online will be rewarded, while the latecomers will merely whine.” (Seth  Godin, 2009)
• Well over half of online Canadians connect with social networks. (Forrester, 2009)
• 73% of all US adults are “spectators,” which means they read social media, or look at it, at least once a month. Half of adults are “joiners,” which means they participate in social networks like Facebook. This is double the percentage from just two years ago. (Forrester, 2009)
• Twitter will become finally the pace maker for application interfaces. Unlike the thousands of gadgets on Facebook, the more than 2,000 applications for Twitter are actually integrated applications - more than twice as many as for Salesforce.com in just 2 years. (Econsultancy, 2009)
• Over 50% of all updates on Twitter are published using mobile and Web-based tools, other than Twitter.com’s own website. (Econsultancy, 2009)
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Along with EPiServer CMS comes the integration with Visual Studio, this module provide us pre-build structure to create a clean Site from the IDE.  However, we have a small limitation that this module just works with C#, and even thought most people will be fine with it there are some cases where the client requirement is to build the templates on Visual Basic.  Well, even thought we all will think what a lazy job to find the way to make everything work on Visual Basic, I would like to pass the news that it isn’t hard once we know what we have to do. More

Jahia like another power full java based CMS like Alfresco, uses industry standard Lucene open source index engine. Lucene is a java based search engine for applications that requires full-text search. This engine can perform basic and complex searches over the data inserted in the Jahia system. More

So you've started to believe the hype??  It's true, Sharepoint 2010 is significantly different from SP2007.  There are many new features that MS lists as "Content Management Capabilities" such as:  More

If you are still wondering if Social Media works, take a look at Haiti. On January 18^th, the Red Cross reported that it’s social media / mobile campaign had helped raise over $21 Million for Haiti. The Director of Social Media at the Red Cross  - Wendy Harman – was “blown away” by the impact and success. Facebook and Twitter were given much credit according to CNN.  More

Want to learn how to implement a jQuery plugin as a module in Jahia? First, we’ll add the same module twice in a page but passing different parameters to each module to change the appearance of both. Then we’ll implement AJAX in one module. Let’s imagine we are building a site in Jahia to sell products. The common things we find in a product page are product images, product descriptions, advertisements, etc.  For our product page we are adding a rating module that will allow us to show our score of the product, scores from another source (e.g. Other Web Site or Magazine) and let users rate the product and show their score too.We built a jQuery plugin that will allow us to display rating results. Plus letting the website visitor to rate the product in a simple way.In the image below we see how the plugin can show information, and how it lets the user rate the product using the slider. It is simple to show the rating module like in the second example.  More

Jahia has an embedded search engine that can be used by a Tag Library. This library offers components to build forms, field elements, components to display search results, and components to implement the pagination. I want to share a way of how to use the Jahia Search Tag Library to do full text searches.  More

Jahia is one of the best Java WCMs and KickApps is one of the best social media platforms.  I decided to put the KickApps widget into a Jahia module and see what I could do. More

Want to learn more about Sitecore CMS? Sign up for the Southern California User Group! The inaugural meeting will take place on Wednesday January 13th at 6pm at Oshyn's headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. It's a good group to get involved in if you have an interest in Content Management Systems (CMS), WCM, Online Marketing, or even just scouting out ways to make your website a better performer! Oshyn is providing pizza and refreshments - so sign up on Meetup so we know how many mouths we're feeding! Sign up here: http://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Los-Angeles-Oshyn/  More

In Enterprise environments, Jahia can be installed over other application Servers like JBoss. So in this post I want to explain how urlrewrite works with the Java API Tuckey that can be integrated in Jahia Enterprise installations. Also Jahia WCM can easily be leveraged to create SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Friendly URLs by your content editors. More

I want to share a possible implementation of how to do a print friendly view and email functionality in Jahia V6. I want to share this because these two types of functionality are very common across websites and Jahia can be used to easily implement them.  More

by: Byron Calisto, Senior Developer  More