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This episode teaches you how to build a fully editable navigation using the block grid editor in Umbraco 13. You will create element types for navigation items with dropdowns, configure the block grid data type, build Razor partial views to render the navigation, and manage it all from the backoffice.

In this episode we dive deep into document types in Umbraco 13. You will create content pages, a homepage, a search page, and site settings. We cover data types, compositions, components, the umbracoNaviHide property, tagging, dynamic routes as an XPath replacement, and setting up ModelsBuilder for strongly typed models.

This episode covers Umbraco templates and Razor views. You will download a Bootstrap theme, integrate it into Umbraco, split the HTML into reusable partial views, learn about view imports and layout files, and create dictionary values for managing shared text content across your site in a clean way.

In this episode you will install Umbraco 13 from scratch using the dotnet CLI and Package Script Writer. We explore the different Umbraco versions, tour the backoffice admin interface, create your first homepage document type, edit a template, and make content editable using Umbraco properties and CodePen examples.

This episode introduces the full Umbraco 13 tutorial series. You will see a preview of the finished website we are building together, including block grid editing, block previews in the backoffice, navigation, a working contact form, tagging, and search with Examine. It sets the stage for everything ahead.

This post is a narrated gallery of images I took at codegarden 2024

I wanted to document my visit to Umbraco Spark 2024 with some images and text.

This post shows you how to fix the umbraco deploy schema mismatch error where the database type is different

Learn Umbraco 13 with our complete video tutorial series. Master document types, block grids, forms, search, and more. Perfect for .NET developers.

This post shows you how to remove the trailing slash off a URL in SQL and teaches you a lesson about Skybrud Redirects.

This post is just basically a SQL snippet for you to copy, paste and edit for use when you need to create a SQL database with a login and a user.

5 ways to harden your Azure Web App and SQL Database resources