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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.

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Create flow charts, process diagrams, mindmaps, wireframes, the whole lot, in your browser, for free.

This post is a step by step tutorial with instructions for creating a simple login form and logout button in Umbraco MVC.

This post gives you a tutorial on how to create a page view hit counter in Umbraco for recording page views.

This post shows you how to overcome the problems with installing the Dialogue forum package in your Umbraco site.

Trello is a fantastic tool for managing your workload in one place. You can use it record your ideas and track those ideas through a process as they develop into real actions.

This post gives you a list of the of the best sites for getting free stock images. Within the sites, almost all of the photographs are free from copyright restriction and are licensed under creative commons public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

I recently found this free online tool called dotnetfiddle. It was inspired by jsfiddle. It allows you to write, test and share .NET code in your browser.

This post shows you how to find the hidden dinosaur game in Google Chrome, without having to turn off or disconnect your internet.

Using the umbracoUrlAlias property on a page in Umbraco gives you the ability to set up one or more different URLs for a single page. The page structure of your site might create long URLs, and you may want to a shorter one, the umbracoUrlAlias will do that for you. Or a page may have previously existed with a different URL, and you want to catch the traffic going to that URL and get them to look at this page, the umbracoUrlAlias will do that for you as well.

This post gives you a step by step guide on how to install Umbraco on your local machine using Visual Studio, NuGet, IIS and SQL Server.