Content sharing with Umbraco (codegarden usa 2008)
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The document describes a case study on content sharing across multiple Umbraco websites by utilizing a structured approach to centralize common pages and improve maintenance and performance. It outlines challenges faced, solutions implemented, and the benefits of the new content sharing architecture, which allows for efficient content reuse and customization while handling high traffic. Key features of the solution include the ability to render macros, access remote sites, and provide a user-friendly experience.
Content sharing with Umbraco (codegarden usa 2008)
- 1. Content Sharing for Fun and Profit AWhite Label* Case Study
- 2. CONTENT SHARING What to expect A case study review/interview: Concepts Client requirements Site architecture and design issues Macros and code Performance and other issues Demonstration
- 3. CONTENT SHARING Owner, Percipient Studios Community Evangelist UmbracoTrainer Forum “umbracoholic” My Packages XSLTsearch ImageGen PS PayPal ContentSharing Jason Jevack, BuildIQ Web Services Manager
- 4. CONTENT SHARING Your name? Your “job”?
- 5. CONTENT SHARING The impetus BuildIQ has a lot of websites and content, but a small team of content developers Jason is a big proponent of: • never entering the same data twice • separating content from its presentation • planning ahead • believing that crazy ideas often work Content Sharing is the result of a “crazy idea”
- 6. CONTENT SHARING The challenge Stage One Centralize common pages and share the data across five umbraco sites Sites were not in a common umbraco installation Some shared content contained macros • “About Us” page included a macro to display a list of employees with photos, for instance
- 7. CONTENT SHARING Solution options Umbraco provides many options Content Picker RenderTemplate() AltTemplate None of these met all our needs
- 8. CONTENT SHARING A new solution Our content sharing solution must: Return full XML node Access remote sites Render macros Work in templates as well as in macros Provide working links and images Enable local value overrides Perform quickly Be easy to install and use
- 9. CONTENT SHARING How it works 1. Visitor requests a page 2. Macro calls shared content template/macro 3. Node returned with macros rendered 4. URLs and images normalized 5. Page sent to visitor Sharing siteDisplaying site GetSharedContent macro ShareContent template 1 2 3 4 5
- 10. CONTENT SHARING The Results Shared a few pages across many sites About Us, Privacy Policy, etc. Content Sharing worked well Easy to use Centralized maintenance Good performance But…
- 11. CONTENT SHARING The challenge StageTwo White Label project • A product or service produced by one company that other companies rebrand to make it appear as if they made it Share an entire site and complex node tree Customize output Embed in existing site markup Performance is critical • 50,000 hits per hour, peak
- 12. CONTENT SHARING The impetus Increase profit by reusing existing content • Make it once, repackage many times Drive traffic and ad revenue Improve brand recognition Centralize content development and maintenance
- 13. CONTENT SHARING Besides… This is just more of the same old thing! Right?!?
- 16. CONTENT SHARING Architecture Object Map Display SiteSharing Site
- 19. CONTENT SHARING Challenges Node structure of sharing site is different than the displaying site Content Sharing code extended to return a node tree fragment Macros used to mash sharing content into appropriate displaying content URLs only available for “real” nodes Use a crawling search engine
- 20. CONTENT SHARING Challenges ImageGen Professional enhanced Resize images hosted remotely HTML/CSS challenges Easily incorporateWhite Label’s code updates over time Don’t interfere with existing functionality Quirks mode, no consistency in doctype IE6 support Large “payload” to website visitors
- 21. CONTENT SHARING Dell PowerEdge 2950 Dual Core Xeon @ 2GHz 2048MB Windows 2003 SQL Server 2005 Express Performance HGTVpro.com reaches 50,000 hits/hr. Load testing Macro caching Maximum browser caching or all items DC.Web.HttpCompress Combine and compress CSS, JS and HTML Not currently used on the site
- 22. CONTENT SHARING Enough talk I want to see it! First the sharing site Then the displaying site …and more if there is time
- 23. CONTENT SHARING Our content sharing package: Returns full XML node or node tree Accesses remote sites Renders macros Can be used in templates and macros Provides working links and images Enables local value overrides Performs quickly Is easy to install and use To Do List Create remote content picker control to replace textfield for remote node id Provide customized xml for clients to use directly Summary