How to render the grid html in Umbraco

This is a quick post to give you the code for rendering the Grid Html in Umbraco. Read More

Paul Seal
17 October 2017

How to show UTC time relative to the user's local time on a .NET website

This post gives you the code I found to help you get a user's country and culture code and display a UTC date and time relative to the user who is viewing in their browser. Read More

Paul Seal
02 October 2017

This is why you should never judge a book by its cover

Today I learned a valuable lesson about how you should never judge a book by its cover. Read More

Paul Seal
26 September 2017

How to use a custom local dev url without having to edit the hosts file

Here is a really useful tip for all web developers. It shows you how you use custom urls for your local dev machine websites without having to edit the hosts file. Read More

Paul Seal
15 August 2017

Live Coding - Previous and Next Page Buttons in Umbraco

This is a recording of some live coding I did to help Tom out. He wanted to know how to create previous and next buttons to navigate between pages in Umbraco Read More

Paul Seal
04 August 2017

The day I hacked Troy Hunt's website to delete my data

I needed to remove my personal details from Troy Hunt's website. This post shows you why and how I did it. Read More

Paul Seal
03 August 2017

Free HTML5 and Bootstrap Template Websites

This post gives you a list of good websites to get your Free HTML5 and Bootstrap templates from. Read More

Paul Seal
31 July 2017

How to get the website domain address in Umbraco

This post shows you how to get the current umbraco website domain address including http(s):// in the simplest way possible. Read More

Paul Seal
31 July 2017

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

Paul Seal
24 July 2017

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

Paul Seal
17 July 2017