Analyzing the Tridion Object Cache

Tridion Content Delivery comes with an Object Cache module that keeps frequently requested information in memory to speed up access to your web site. In many cases this is all you need to know about the Object Cache: if you enable the Object Cache your web site becomes faster. But there are also situations where you'd like to know how your Object Cache is being used and whether assigning more memory to caching will improve performance even further. To do this you can use the Content Delivery logging mechanism to write out a separate log file with just the output from the Object Cache subsystem.  

SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 Released!

SDL, the leading provider of Global Information Management solutions announces the launch of SDL Tridion 2011 SP1. This new release builds on its strengths as a global solution for targeted content, multisite and multilingual site management.  

SiteEdit with positive z-indexes

When you have used SDL Tridion you will no doubt also have encountered SiteEdit and will have seen how useful it can be to easily maintain your web content. With Modular Templates the implementation of SiteEdit has been made really easy, but getting it to work for you properly within your own website design can sometimes be some more work.  

Deployer Extensions with Eclipse - Step 1: Introduction, Concepts & Requirements

In this tutorial we will cover all the steps you must follow to create a deployer extension using Eclipse. We will create a "Custom Module" and will configure Eclipse from scratch to develop, test and debug our code. 

Forrester Wave names SDL as 'A Leader' in Web Content Management for Online Customer Experience

As one of 10 leading WCM vendors evaluated across 115 criteria, Forrester Research, Inc. ranked SDL a leader due to SDL Tridion's rich functionality, strategy and enterprise track record. 

Outbound Email Templating

When creating templates for the Email channel, there are some challenges to overcome, particularly in creating Text versions, and managing content in Rich Text fields. This article and accompanying eXtension will explain these challenges and accelerate the process of developing your Outbound Email templates. 

Using Content Porter 2009 SP1 for DTAP

This document describes a process to move Content Manager changes between various different Tridion systems (Typically named DTAP, or Development, Test, Acceptance and Production) 

The different levels of Compound Templating Part 2 of 3

In this series of articles, a unified way of working with the Compound Templating Framework is presented. Part one started with Dreamweaver Template Building Blocks, this part is a continuation of part one and describes Custom Functions for Dreamweaver TBBs. The other parts cover C# fragment Building Blocks and .NET assembly Building Blocks. 

HowTo: Tackle Integrations in SDL Tridion 2011

SDL Tridion comes with a broad extension framework. This document explains how to utilize the standardized interfaces to integrate SDL Tridion with your IT ecosystem. Whilst SDL Tridion offers you standard features to enable your content and channel strategy to drive the business end of your interaction, there will always be a wish to leverage your existing software investments by means of back-end integrations. SDL Tridion caters for this need through its extension framework. On both the Content Management, as well as the Content Delivery side there are a wide range of extension points, which allow you to extend functionality without the need for customizations. 

SDL Tridion 2011 Interface Eyes User Experience

In the past few years, it seemed like more and more software companies focused on the user experience element of their products. We have seen popular office suites move from drop-down menus and toolbars to ribbons showing in-context options. SDL has not missed this trend and has improved their Tridion 2011 Content Manger Explorer (CME) interface in much the same way. 

Setting up a SDL Tridion 2011 GUI extension in 8 steps

This tutorial shows how to configure an extension for the SDL Tridion 2011 GUI from start to finish. 

SDL Tridion 2011 Articles

A new section of our website, full of SDL Tridion 2011 goodness, tips, tutorials (yes! tutorials!) and samples. 

SDL Tridion 2011 Released!

SDL, the leading provider of Global Information Management solutions announces the launch of SDL Tridion 2011. This new release builds on its strengths as a global solution for targeted content, multisite and multilingual site management.  

The different levels of Compound Templating Part 1 of 3

In this three part series, a unified way of working with Compound Templating or Modular Templating is presented. Part one starts with Dreamweaver Template Building Blocks, part two continues with C# code fragment Building Blocks, and part three finishes with .NET assembly Building Blocks. 

SDL SmartTarget, marketing and e-Commerce solution, released

Early June 2010 SDL announced the launch of SDL SmartTarget that enhances SDL Tridion Web Content Management Platform by enabling easy delivery of dynamic relevancy, predictive targeting and affiliate marketing programs within a single, simple-to-use interface. 

Micro-Site - Maxi-Impact

I recently worked on rolling out an SDL Microsite and was impressed by how quickly this could be achieved with SDL Tridion 2009. Since I left our Professional Services team a few years back, I had not really worked on a full-scale project and it was good to see that quick implementations are no rocket science. After talking about the project to fellow marketers, I realized however that planning microsites for many of my peers is still paired with a general hesitation. So, let's demystify microsites.  

Training Matters

Training - the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies - is an essential part of any employee's toolkit for their daily jobs and without it employees will struggle to do their job in an efficient and successful manner. For an organization, it is crucial that the right people are trained well to use tools, such as a Content Management System (CMS), so that the organization can fully leverage the potential of their investment. 

Developing an Extensible SDL Tridion Workflow Framework

The SDL Tridion Web Content Management System provides a flexible approval workflow engine which is tied directly into the vision of Content Management held by Tridion. The system does not readily integrate with business processes. 

SDL Tridion MVP 2012

The MVP Selection Panel is happy to announce the winners of the SDL Tridion Most Valued Professional awards for 2012. This year we have 9 amazing professionals that were chosen from the several high-quality nominations received. 

Portal Integration Scenarios and Considerations

The focus of this document is to discuss the delivery aspect of SDL Tridion, specifically to deploying content to portals. First, we will outline general integration principles around the Web Services that is true for all Portal deployments. We will then outline three portal deployment scenarios, discuss the pros and cons of each, and address typical portal integration concerns. Ultimately, the decision as to which is best will be based on specific business needs of the customer. 

Go Mobile with SDL Tridion 2011 and Netbiscuits

There are a number of technical solutions for publishing pages to mobile devices from SDL Tridion 2011, in this article we look at the simple steps to go mobile with our partner Netbiscuits. 

Using oData with Tridion (.NET/C#)

With the release of Tridion 2011, SDL has incorporated OData support into its API's for the display layer via web services. By doing this Tridion allows developers to talk to the content broker and retrieve data for consumption within their own code. This guide will walk you through setting up, and using OData for your first time to connect to Tridion 

Setting up an IIS Deployer (Manual)

In this article we'll be taking a look at setting up a SDL Tridion .NET deployment environment. SDL Tridion gives you many options for deployment and methods for getting your data to your web servers. Tridion supports multiple web servers including Apache and IISas well as multiple methods to transfer data include HTTP(s), FTP, Local File System, SFTP, and SSHFTP. Looking at that list we can immediately see the cross platform and extensibility options for our environments. For the purpose of this article I'm going to keep it Microsoft technology, but feel free to explore all the options listed above to find out which method is best for your environment and requirements. 

Content Delivery Network Integration

If your website visitors have to wait a long time for your site to load, at best you will bore them. At worst you will lose their business. This article illustrates how Tridion's extensible storage mechanism enables you to mitigate these risks by integrating with a CDN. 

Easily Publish Website Design

The Dreamweaver integration for Modular Templating enables you to rapidly upload HTML designs into SDL Tridion and publish them onto your website. However there are some common stumbling blocks related to how 2nd level dependencies are managed (for example the relationship between CSS and images), and the structure of the published files on your website. This article outlines these issues and illustrates a simple approach to overcome them. 

SiteEdit 2009 Essentials (1) - The Basics

So you have installed SiteEdit 2009.... what's next? This article contains details on how the basics of SiteEdit 2009 can be implemented in your templates, and then moves on to address additional features such as controlling the publication in which components and pages are edited, making embedded or linked components editable through SiteEdit, and enabling the editing and creation of components that are published as Dynamic Component Presentations. The whole article refers to functionality provided by SiteEdit 2009 SP2. Earlier versions will not necessarily work with the described approaches. The TT72267 hotfix is also required.  

HowTo: Extending Content Broker Storage

An example of storing comments using the new extensible storage model 

SDL Tridion 2011 .NET events

SDL Tridion 2011 comes with a new implementation of the event system. The event system is now part of the extensibility features that support extending the Content Manager kernel, which means you can make your event system modular. 

SDL Tridion MVP 2011

The MVP Selection Panel is happy to announce the SDL Tridion Most Valued Professionals for 2011. This year 8 outstanding professionals were chosen from the several high-quality nominations received. 

Community Technology Preview of SDL Tridion 2011

The end of development for the SDL Tridion 2011 release is approaching. This release includes a number of enhancements requested by customers and partners. In order to provide our community with firsthand knowledge into the release and with a chance to explore these changes and provide feedback SDL is releasing the product for Community Technology Preview (CTP) in the period of July to August 2010. 

What is the SDL Tridion Object Cache?

The SDL Tridion Object Cache is an in-memory cache that stores frequently used objects from the Content Data Store. The cache keeps objects available to applications for repeated usage. This prevents SDL Tridion Content Delivery from having to retrieve objects from the Content Data Store for each request. Typically caching includes linking information, metadata and component presentations. The Object Cache is designed to significantly improve the performance of your Web sites and is available to every Content Delivery module. SDL Tridion recommends implementing it in every production environment. 

Seven Sins of Website Translation

Today, I had to do some research on the web. As I surfed in this sea of information, I put on my consumer glasses and had a closer look at the translation features of these sites. Working for a global Web Content Management vendor, I was surprised by what I saw. And because I did not get far with my intended research, I decided to at least share with you what to me are the Seven Sins of website translation: 

MVP Award Program

The SDL Tridion MVP Award program is a program developed to thank and recognize all the great professionals that freely share their knowledge, real world experience and objective feedback to help others implement and enhance our technology. An MVP award is given to those who offer exceptional contributions to the SDL Tridion community. You can nominate candidates at any time during the entire year. 

Safeguard to deliver brand consistency

Safeguard is a website quality and compliance-monitoring tool powered by Magus ActiveStandards and is integrated with SDL Tridion's Web Content Management System. By complying with a wide variety of guidelines and rules that communication specialists have created, the tool significantly contributes to improved SEO, visitor experience, usability and brand value. 

Q-go integration demo video

To better understand what your web site visitors are asking for on your websites, natural language search helps you to increase customer satisfaction. 

Maintaining SDL Tridion Databases

The SDL Tridion uses two and possibly three different databases. The SDL Tridion Content Manager Database (called Tridion_cm by default) that is used to store all Tridion content, the SDL Tridion Logging Database (called Tridion_cm_log by default) which holds all error and warning messages that the Content Manager server logs and the SDL Tridion Content Delivery Database (called Tridion_broker by default) which stores all dynamic content and metadata information that is available for the Content Broker, Dynamic Linking, Dynamic Content Delivery and Personalization and Profiling on the Presentation Servers.  

SDL Tridion Certification!

The SDL Tridion Certification Program for Technical Consultants is a Professional Services initiative targeted at the SDL Tridion Technical Consultant community.

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