For the past several months, we've been rebuilding & redesigning the Telerik.com web site.  Our existing web site had served us very well, but it was beginning to show some age.  We were anxious to utilize some of the newer techniques & technologies available to us and, in the end, hopefully offer a better experience to our customers.

Telerik.com is a big a web site and rebuilding it wasn't a trivial task.  Not only does Telerik.com get a lot of traffic, but it also contains a TON of content (product information, demos, support articles, forum posts, etc.).  To support this task ...

Sitefinity was selected as 1 of only 42 Web Content Management Products to be reviewed for the 2009 Web CMS Report.  This annual report provides a comprehensive overview of CMS products & best practices across 7 vendor categories and multiple platforms.   

The CMS landscape contains hundreds of products; it is very exciting for Sitefinity to be selected as one of only a few to be reviewed

More great posts from the Sitefinity forums from this past week: 

• How do I save (but not publish) a Sitefinity page?
  Some good information about using Sitefinity's workflow features to control when changes get published.
  
• Does Sitefinity support the MetaWeblog API?
  A great announcement that Sitefinity fully supports the MetaWeblog API.
  
• How do I use Sitefinity to auto-generate newsletters from events?
  Information about using the Sitefinity API to automatically create a newsletter.
  
• How do I retrieve an Event ID from a Sitefinity Event Page?
  Getting the Event ID from the Event View page and using it ...

A few weeks ago Ivan made a small post to the Sitefinity forums and announced:

Yes the Live Writer support is fully functional.  As a matter of fact all the guys and girls on blogs.telerik.com are using Live Writer for their everyday blogging.

This forum post probably went unnoticed by most people, but it's an incredible announcement.  Windows Live Writer is a free desktop application that can be used to compose your blog offline.  When you're finished composing, you can publish with a 'click' of a button.  I've now written a handful of blog posts using Live Writer, it's a ...

The Sitefinity forums are always full of great questions & answers from the community.  Below are just a few of the helpful posts from this past week:

• How do I setup a new RSS feed in Sitefinity?
  Setting up a new RSS channel in Sitefinity is pretty easy, but how do you make use of it?  Where is the RSS file?  This forum post contains some good information about the steps needed to get up & running with a new RSS feed.
  
• How do I access the contents of a RadEditor using Javascript?
  Good information about manipulating the ...

Are you interested in experimenting with Office SharePoint Server but only have access to your personal computer?  Using Windows Virtual Server, you have the ability to run a virtual instance of Windows Server & SharePoint Server on your local machine. 

Below I've described the steps needed to create a Virtual SharePoint Server on your machine.

What you’ll need:

• A hefty computer with plenty of memory & disk space.  Your virtual server will run from a Virtual Hard Disk (just a big *.VHD file on your computer).  You need to devote enough memory & disk space to allow the virtual server ...