Clemens Food Group

Aug 24, 2011 by William    Posted under: Portfolio

My last website ever! Not really but I thought if this is my last why not make it great!It’s been a while since I’ve used Umbraco for a website but I know I wanted to make sure that I made as much of site editable through the Umbraco dashboard. That included the header, footer and primary navigation (and drop downs), the homepage callouts and Flash sideshow, and anything else that came up during development.

Using Umbraco 4.7 was a real joy; all the changes they made: being able to use Razor syntax in templates and for macros instead of XSLT

The three things I liked

1. Source controlled external project for user controls, POCOs and admin pages.
2. Integrating seperate admins into the Umbraco dashboard.
3. Using a combination of Umbraco pages, Razor and url rewrite for the products.

The site is combination of web forms and Razor macros

Something that didn’t make it into the final site (but still exists) is a sales rep location admin and output.

As much as possible is editable through Umbraco:

• Every page has a selectable background image.
• Every slide on the homepage is a Umbraco document, making selecting images, setting text and ordering easy for the user (rather than editing an XML file).
• While trying to keep the site as simple as possible.

One last touch was putting all the CSS and JavaScript on a subdomain and merging and compressing