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
Simple .NET keep alive handler to prevent timeout
This post shows you how to create a simple keep alive for a .NET website so people can stay logged in whilst the page is open, instead of it timing out after 20 minutes. Read More
How to reset the Umbraco admin account password
This post gives you simple instructions to help you reset the Umbraco admin password. Read More
Umbraco Site Navigation Menu Model Example in C# MVC
This post gives you the basic code to loop through the pages in your site and populate the navigation model. It also gives you the code to add it to and call it from the cache. Read More
Simple Reusable .NET Caching Example Code in C#
Caching is important because it can speed up your website or application. Here is a simple example for you to take away and re-use: Read More
Umbraco HTML Sitemap Template Example Using Razor
Most websites will have an HTML sitemap. There is an easy way to create one in Umbraco using razor. Just follow these simple steps. Read More
That's a really good question
One thing that really annoys me is when someone asks the guest a question they nearly always reply back with "wow that's a great question" or "that's a really good question." Read More
Regular Expression (regex) for a number greater than 1200
In case you are looking for a regex to find a number greater than 1200 or something similar, I though I would post it so you can alter it for your needs. Read More
How to fix Font Awesome WebFont woff2 not found
If you are getting the error fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.6.3 not found but you definitely know you have the file, here is how to fix it in IIS. Read More
Switch between ajax and post back in the same form
I realised that I needed to change the mode of the form depending on which button was pressed. So I came up with this bit of javascript/jquery. Read More
How to get the file path of a media item in umbraco
This post shows you how to get the file path of the item so you can use it for the src of an image or as a link to a document. Read More