Lately I've been tasked with Sitefinity Upgrades and License renewals.  I thought I would put this checklist online as it's helping me stay organized while i make these upgrades.

This is by far the largest effort to date for me at PlanetMagpie.  We had meetings for requirements and documentation of these in a detail that would allow any consulting company to make a bid on this project.  After a month the client was back with our quote and looking at what could be delivered in the time-frame needed. ...

This is the fourth version of Thunder I have installed, Sitefinity is on a very rapid release schedule here.  New features with each release.  Here are few highlights of the new control templates I found extremely useful.

In the last few weeks I had the fun of taking the design of a new website for an existing company and making it their new live website in just under 2 weeks of dedicated effort.

Well Sitefinity nailed it in this new 5.1 release.  A Hierarchical Dynamic Module Builder this is almost what's needed to create true relational data management.

On a recent project I developed two module builder dynamic modules.  I was rushed and pushed them to completion without much thought as I entered the names of fields, selected data types and required field validation or some simple regular expression validation rules. I hit save and started to enter some test data. Everything looked great and I was done ...

Time to put my earlier Module Builder review into sharper context.

I'm currently developing the architecture for a site which involves numerous custom modules, client user forms, and the connection of data items created in these custom modules to Events in the Events Module. (Not to mention I'll be adding 20+ custom fields to the Events Module – some that ...

How's that for setting an expectation?

This is Brent Taylor, Sitefinity expert for PlanetMagpie Web Development. I had really high hopes for the new Module Builder module introduced in Sitefinity 4. And it delivers on many of them. However, I feel Sitefinity might have rushed this to production a bit. I'm really glad it's here; the upgrades are very welcome! ...

The other day we blogged about our website slowing down. And what we did to speed it back up.

We went through a bunch of different optimizing steps, tuning up the site's performance bit by bit.

Last week we took the next logical step: Moving the PlanetMagpie.com website (and its CMS database) to dedicated Web servers.

Boosting Sitefinity's Performance, ...

Recently we noticed our website was slowing down. Just us? No; we analyzed the download speeds and sure enough, overall load time had decreased. So we looked at the pages for what could be causing a performance snag.

Turns out, there are all sorts of places where we COULD improve performance! So many in fact, we made a list. And ...