To provide context between similarly-looking SDL Tridion environments, consider Skinning the Content Manager Explorer as described on SDL Live Content.
Simplified, slightly modified, and with some pics. This is a fairly quick and easy way to make your CMS environments stand out from each other. For the full power of CME Themes, head on over to YATB.
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When you open up the SDL Tridion UI for the first time you are directed to the SDL Tridion tab which shows you a welcome screen, this is sometimes also referred to as the SDL Tridion dashboard. If you open the Experience Manager view, you actually see that the first tab is called “Dashboard”. This dashboard contains useful information for an editor and is even extensible, allowing for a rich user experience on your extensions. Typical things are settings for your own extensions, or perhaps user specific pages (like a custom page, but then tailored to the logged in user) since you have all the UI capabilities available here.
Creating a architecture presentation the other day helped to crystallise some thoughts in my head on integrating a CMS like Tridion, and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
I have been involved with such matters before (see my SDL Tridion World Article on how to technically integrate a CDN through Storage Extensions) but I thought it was worth sharing my ideas on the considerations when working with a CMS and CDN.
SDL Tridion’s Enterprise Content Management features are a good match for companies with a truly global digital presence and audience. Such companies are also those most likely to benefit from the scaling features offered by a global Content Delivery Network, so Tridion + CDN is a hot topic.
In this article, Yoav Niran explained the basics of a SDL Tridion UI extension, like how to create a button in the Ribbon Toolbar. Now I will revisit that topic and explain you about the use of the Ribbon Item Group.
Please see below slides for the discussion we hope to have initiated in the Community Webinar held on the 14th March 2012.
Essentially, as a wise man once noted, there are as many ways of rendering navigation as there are Tridion Consultants… The purpose of this discussion is for us, as a community, to share and discuss our experiences.
Please feel free to post links to blogs with specific examples but ideally here we would have more of a discussion of why we would choose one method over another (implementation timescales, environment, editor requirements etc.) and whether, on reflection, previous decisions would be the same…
Let’s talk….
For anyone that would like the slides from today’s SDL Tridion community webinar here are the downloads:
Thanks Jules/SDL for having us and we’re looking forward to the next one.
This post is part 3 of 3 that explains how to install the Image Map extension for SDL Tridion. Please also read the image map extension introduction and details about how to use it.
Note: This will only work on SDL Tridion 2011, that said it would be really easy to get this working on 2009, contact me if you’d like some help with it.
The Image Map tool is built using HTML and Javascript (Not my javascript, the excellent javascript of these guys), it plugs directly into multimedia components as a custom field in the multimedia schema.
Now you’ve got the Image Map extension installed, you’re now to ready to dive in and create loads of image maps 
I recently spoke to someone who had the requirement for creating image maps inside SDL Tridion. Seemed like a pretty strange request as I didn’t think people still used image maps, but I thought it would make quite a cool little extension… so during a 9 hour stay over at an airport I decided to knock up a prototype.
