Umbraco MVP and .NET Web Developer from Derby (UK) who specialises in building Content Management System (CMS) websites using MVC with Umbraco as a framework. Paul is passionate about web development and programming as a whole. Apart from when he's with his wife and son, if he's not writing code, he's thinking about it or listening to a podcast about it.
Articles by Paul Seal
How to create a simple FAQs page in Umbraco using Archetype in 7 easy steps
Ironically, this question gets asked a lot, so I thought I would show you how simple and easy it is to create an FAQs page in Umbraco using the Archetype package, in 7 easy steps. Read More
How to protect media items in Umbraco
This post shows you how to protect media in Umbraco. It works on the idea that you can put the media you want to protect in a parent folder, perhaps called 'Protected'. In that you can have your files and folders which are not public. But you can also have public media files and folders which can be seen by all. Read More
Simple Web API Helper for Umbraco and MVC
This post gives you the code to help you build an API url with the parameters and a quick way to call a simple get method and parse the results to the object you are expecting back from the API. Read More
What is TDD? How to get started with Test Driven Development
This post gives you an introduction into Test Driven Development. It uses a simple, real world example to show you how to get started. Read More
How to create a custom Html Helper Extension Method in MVC and Umbraco
This post shows you how you can create a custom Html Helper Extension Method for your own Umbraco and MVC projects. Read More
How to fix the error "No physical template file was found for template X"
This post shows you how to fix the error No physical template file was found for template X. There is an animated which shows you how to fix it. Read More
Why is Umbraco CMS so rubbish?
You may have used it before, or you may be using it now and the thought might go through your head "Why is Umbraco so rubbish" or other words to that effect. Read More
How to create a Hangman Chat Bot game in Node.js using Microsoft Bot Framework
This post will show you step by step how to create a Chat Bot using Node.js and the Microsoft Bot Framework. Don't be put off if you've never used node.js before. It's really easy to use. You don't need to be an expert to write node.js programs. Anyone can follow along with this tutorial. Read More
How to migrate or downgrade a SQL Server database to a lower version
This post shows you how you can migrate or downgrade a SQL Server database from one version to a lower or earlier one. E.g. 2016 to 2014, 2014 to 2012, 2012 to 2008 etc Read More
What is Clean Code?
The term “Clean Code” could be confusing for beginners. What does it mean? You clean the car, you clean your bedroom, how do you clean your code? Read More