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So the post office re-delivered my other decorative anime figurine today.
Alter's Azusa Nakano is three of five of my crazy attempt to collect all of Hokago Tea Time from K-ON. Thank God there's only five. The box:
Below is Azusa Nakano in plastic wrap. She comes with a separate hair piece. You can take her head off and replace her bangs with a set of bangs with cat ears. Yui gave her the nickname "Azu-nyan" after realizing she looked better as a neko-girl. Did I mention K-ON is big on the moe-factor?
Azusa's the new freshman the light music club picks up in their junior year at school. She's much more serious about her music. Both of her folks play in a Jazz band so music runs in the family. She plays back up to Yui and considers herself a n00b. She's amazed at Yui's musical savant abilities and she's not so hip to all of the moe-moe antics of her seniors and their daily after school tea parties.
She plays another Gibson Les Paul guitar. When the other girls realize they'll be graduating leaving Azusa with nobody in the club they buy her a pet turtle.
It's Tea Time!
I mentioned that she's got some friends too. By friends I mean, other figures I collected while I was in Akiba. Those three are some of the bigger ones I've collected. Most of the other ones I have are smaller gashapon. For instance, Misato Katsuragi from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I recently watched Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone and Evangelion 2.22: You Can(not) Advance. I like what they've done with Tokyo-3 and the Evangelions through the use of toon-shaded CGI. It makes me want to go back to Blender and try my hand at modeling cityscapes for backdrops.
I'm also a big fan of Maria-sama ga Miteru. I didn't think I'd like it because it was introduced to me years ago as a slow-paced slice-of-life drama. It took me years to sit down and watch it but I loved it when I did. What can I say, I love the over-the-top melodrama. I didn't think I'd like most of the characters, but each episode presents a new facet about one of the girls that makes them interesting.
When I was in Akiba I collected some of the Yujin series of figures for Maria-sama. Recently I collected select figures from the MOVIC series. From left to right: Touko Matsudaira, Sachiko Ogasawara, Shimako Todou, Yumi Fukuzawa, Youko Mizuno, and Eriko Torii.
Sei Sato and Shimako are amongst my favorites. I'm still waiting to get Sei from a Yahoo Japan acution. There also aren't as many figures for Maria-sama since it's about 4 years too late for me. Back in March, when I was in Japan K-ON! was the big thing.
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Last week I was triggered by a tweet from Sebastiaan Janssen mentioning the Dictionary Section Package was broken in 4.7.1
Moving the Dictionary to a separate section is a technique that I use myself a lot when building solutions for clients, I don't want to give content editor access to the settings section and I really don't want to edit Dictionary items myself .I just finished a custom section where I used this, so I immediately logged in as an Editor and indeed I got a nice Exception. This hasn't happened before so I assume this security check is introduced in 4.7.x.
It seemed that the page was throwing this error and indeed the constructor of EditDictionary sets the CurrentApp which will be used in a later stage to validate User permissions.
public EditDictionaryItem() { CurrentApp = BusinessLogic.DefaultApps.settings.ToString(); }
So to fix this error we only need to set the CurrentApp property to either language or empty string (no validation at all). The easiest way is to modify the source and recompile, but I never modify the original Umbraco source to work around the Umbraco core. This is because you need to update the source code for every version update of Umbraco. So I needed a way to update the CurrentApp property using my own code. Lucky for us asp.net is an object oriented language and so we can add our own page and only override the constructor to modify the CurrentApp property. This can be done by creating a custom aspx page where the codebehind class derives from the EditDictionaryItem class.
/// <summary> /// Derive from EditDictionaryItem to use the existing Dictionary functionality /// </summary> public partial class LanguageDictionary : EditDictionaryItem { /// <summary> /// Use the constructor to set the current app /// </summary> public LanguageDictionary() { CurrentApp = "language"; } }
Unfortunately we still some page directives and markup in our aspx page. Lucky for us the original aspx file only contains some basic markup (a placeholder), controls are rendered from codebehind so it's not a crime to copy and paste that markup and update the Page Directives to use our new codebehind and inherit from LanguageDictionary class. Below you see all markup.
<%@ Register Namespace="umbraco" TagPrefix="umb" Assembly="umbraco" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="cc1" Namespace="umbraco.uicontrols" Assembly="controls" %> <%@ Page Language="c#" MasterPageFile="~/umbraco/masterpages/umbracoPage.Master" ValidateRequest="false" CodeBehind="LanguageDictionary.aspx.cs" AutoEventWireup="True" Inherits="DictionaryFix.LanguageDictionary" %> <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="body" runat="server"> <cc1:UmbracoPanel ID="Panel1" runat="server" Width="408px" Height="264px"> </cc1:UmbracoPanel> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function () { UmbClientMgr.appActions().bindSaveShortCut(); }); </script> </asp:Content>
So now we have a complete work around. Only thing is that this page will never be called from the tree. So we need to have a custom tree.The class responsible for rendering of Dictionary items tree is the loadDictionary class. This class contains the Method RenderJS that renders the Javascript function to open the page. So we only need to override that method and point it to our new LanguageDictionary.aspx file, I store the aspx file in the already existing DigibizDictionarySection folder .
public class LanguageDictionaryTree : loadDictionary { public LanguageDictionaryTree(string application) : base(application) { } public override void RenderJS(ref StringBuilder Javascript) { Javascript.Append( @" function openDictionaryItem(id) { UmbClientMgr.contentFrame('plugins/digibizdictionarysection/languagedictionary.aspx?id=' + id); }"); } }
The last thing we need to update is the database table to use our new LanguageDictionaryTree instead of the loadDictionary class. The database table to update is UmbracoAppTree , search for the row containing language as appAlias and update the treeHandlerAssembly and treeHandlerType values.
Copy the aspx page to the /umbraco/plugins/DigibizDictionarySection folder and store the dll in the bin folder of your install. Then login as the editor again and see that you can access Dictionary items outside of the settings section again.
Below you can find the links to the original package and the fix I've created. Jeroen Breuer mentioned he will implement this fix later in his package.
Lots of people want to run MediaProtect on a Mysql database. Currently that is not supported but this is only because of a failing installer script for the MySql database. Benjamin Howarth wrote a MySql script for generating the log table in the MySql database. Once this table exists all functionality will work just fine on a MySql database. The next version of MediaProtect will support this out of the box, for now the installation procedure will be installing MediaProtect first and then run the following script to create the tables.
CREATE TABLE mediaprotectlog ( LogId BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, MediaId INT(11) NOT NULL, Path VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci', Protected BIT(1) NOT NULL, UserName VARCHAR(150) NOT NULL COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci', UserIP VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci', LogDateTime DATETIME NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (LogId) )
CREATE TABLE mediaprotectlog (
LogId BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
MediaId INT(11) NOT NULL,
Path VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci',
Protected BIT(1) NOT NULL,
UserName VARCHAR(150) NOT NULL COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci',
UserIP VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci',
LogDateTime DATETIME NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (LogId) )
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Today I've officially released CMSImport 2.0, for those of you who don't know what CMSImport is. In short CMSImport helps you import content or members from any datasource into Umbraco on a very friendly way. Just point to a datasource and add a mapping between fields in your datasource and the Umbraco Content or Member properties. Currently CMSImport supports the following data sources by default (you can always create your own if you like):
Access database and the Excel file Data source requires you to install the Microsoft Data Connectivity Components
This release is all about structured import of content. For example If you want to import a Product Catalog, you want to import Product Categories and Products. CmsImport 2.0 will help you with that by defining a Parent and child definition. Simply save the parent import definition and select "Create Child definition" from the context menu as displayed in the image below. And you need to specify a Foreign key, that's all! This is very flexible, you can even mix data sources if you want to
Because CmsImport can import whole product catalogs it's fully optimized to import ProductCatalogs for the Teacommerce and Uwebshop Ecommerce solutions. When you import BlogML or Wordpress data and you have Blog4Umbraco or the Blog starter kit installed You'll see the Optimize for Blog4Umbraco/ Blog starter kit option. When you select this option, comments from BlogML or Wordpress will be imported automatically. Of course you can also skip this and Import Blogs and Comments separately.
Another major improvement is the Advanced Mapping feature. For each field you can add Advanced mapping options. CmsImport will determine the type of property and will give you some advanced options based on that type. For every property it's possible to specify a default value, for some types it's possible to specify more options. If you want to import Media it's possible to put the media in the root of your Umbraco install and use the Advanced mapping options for a Media picker, or Rich Text editor to specify where to store the media in the Media Library. For a Media picker it's even possible to select a default value from the Media Library instead of using a textbox.
I've also fixed the scheduled task functionality. In the previous version it ran 95% of the time. The other 5% it didn't run because the Umbraco scheduler wasn't active at the time it needed to execute the task, then one minute later the scheduler is running again but the scheduled task expired. This is solved now, the handler responsible for executing a scheduled tasks will also check for scheduled tasks that didn't run at the requested date/time. if it finds an expired task it will run the task. To give you more insight when a scheduled task did execute I've introduced the scheduled task dialog. This reports when the task was scheduled and when it actually did execute. This dialog is also reporting the next execute time.
Umbraco recently released the Deli. The Umbraco Deli allows you to download or buy products from a single source. CmsImport can be downloaded and bought through the Deli. CmsImport Pro comes in three editions:
For customers that already bought a CmsImport Pro license from my site. First of all sorry for the manual order process Very soon you will receive an email with a new license file that you can use for CmsImport Pro 2.0.
Of course the free edition still exists and it had some small improvements. It's now possible to use Advanced settings when you create a mapping so you can add default values for each field. Checkout the feature comparison sheet for all differences.
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If you want to discuss if CMSImport can handle your requirements, I can always demo or discuss features via Skype.Contact me via email (richard[at]soetemansoftware[dot]nl) if you want a remote demo. Or if you just want to use it download CMSImport from the Umbraco Deli.
A question I get asked a lot is if it is possible to assign a template based on a datasource value. The answer is yes, normally the default assigned template will be assigned when importing your data and this is what 99% of the users want and expect. But using the RecordImported Event we can get the datasource value from the database and use that alias to map the template against the imported document.
In this example we have some data coming from a database that we want to a standard Runway text page. Some items such as Integer and Donec are really important and we want to display these items in Pink. In Umbraco we added a new template called PinkTemplate and as you can see in the image below we added that Template alias in our Datasource that we are going to import.
As I mentioned earlier we can use the event system to manipulate the document during import . You can use the event system for CMSImport in the same way you use the normal Umbraco event system. In the example below you see that we derive from ApplicationBase and wire up the RecordImported event in the constructor. Since we only want to set the template during the initial import, we first check if the Importaction is ImportAsNew. Then we need to check if the template column from the datasource is not null. You can access all items from the datasource using the e.Items collection. When the template column is not null, we get the template id from the database and assign that value to the document.
1: using CMSImport.Extensions.Import;
2: using umbraco.BusinessLogic;
3: using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.template;
4: using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;
6: namespace AssignTemplate
7: {
8: /// <summary>
9: /// This class wil automatically assign a template to the document when being imported for the first time using the RecordImporting Event
10: /// If you want to use this class in your own project simply rename e.Items["Template"] to the template column you use
11: /// in your datasource
12: ///
13: /// This code will work in both the Free and PRO edition of CMSImport and is written for version 1.2.
14: /// If you have any questions please use the forum or email email@example.com
15: /// </summary>
16: public class AssignTemplateUsingDatasource : ApplicationBase
17: {
18: /// <summary>
19: /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="AssignTemplateUsingDatasource"/> class.
20: /// </summary>
21: public AssignTemplateUsingDatasource()
22: {
23: //Whenever a records gets imported
24: ContentImport.RecordImported += new ContentImport.RecordImportedEventHandler(ContentImport_RecordImported);
25: }
27: /// <summary>
28: /// When a record got imported this event is raised.
29: /// </summary>
30: /// <param name="sender">The imported document.</param>
31: /// <param name="e">The <see cref="CMSImport.Extensions.Import.RecordImportedEventArgs"/> instance containing the event data.</param>
32: private void ContentImport_RecordImported(object sender, RecordImportedEventArgs e)
33: {
34: //Only assign the value when its imported for the first time
35: if (e.ImportAction == ImportActions.ImportAsNew)
36: {
37: Document doc = sender as Document;
39: //Get the template value from the datasource. Datasource values are stored in the Items event arguments
40: //Replace templateName with your column name in the datasource!!!
41: string templateAlias = e.Items["templateName"].ToString();
43: if (doc != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(templateAlias))
44: {
45: //An alias is specified, try to get the template based on the specified alias
46: Template template = Template.GetByAlias(templateAlias);
47: if (template.Id != null)
48: {
49: //Template is found assign it to the document
50: doc.Template = template.Id;
51: }
52: }
53: }
54: }
55: }
56: }
When the import is finished you see that all items are imported and when you we take a look at the Integer document you'll see that the assigned template is PinkTemplate instead of the default Runway Textpage template.
As I mentioned before most people expect to assign the default value. When I include the assign template via datasource functionality in the UI it's an option that you need to think about before setting or ignoring the option. My idea with CMSImport is that I want it to be a no brainer to use and introducing this option will make it a little bit harder to use. So if you want this I think it's better to write 10 lines of code instead.
Below you can download the complete source code. Change e.Items["templateName"] to the column name you want to use in your project, build the project and add the DLL to the bin folder of your Umbraco install. That's all!
Download the source code here
Last month I've released Media protect 1.0. Mediaprotect is an Umbraco package that helps you protect media in the same simple way as you protect documents in Umbraco. Once the package is installed and you protect certain media, or content nodes, the files will be password protected. Only authenticated members can open the files, otherwise members will be redirected to the login screen.
No solution without a problem . When you use Umbraco, by default all media items can be accessed directly. If you have a media item that you don't want to be accessed and someone knows the url (maybe got a link via email from a friend), or you have a link in your content to a media item that is crawled by Google and the user uses that url the media item will be shown/downloaded, if you like it or not.
This is also the case with upload fields on a protected content node. The page is protected but the uploaded file is not protected.
Once you've installed media protect files on protected content nodes are protected by default and you'll get the public access menu item on the context menu of your media section.
Best of all you don't need to modify any existing media or document type, it just works!
The public access menu item is the same menu item you get when you want to protect a node in the content section.
When you select Public access you'll get the same dialog as you get when protecting content. You can specify if you want to use single user or role based protection. You can also specify the login and not authorized page.
When you are finished protecting the media item, the media item gets a No Access sign. This indicates that the media is protected and can't be accessed directly. When you open the media item and click on the document link you will be redirected to the login page since you are not logged in. Once you are logged in as a member and the member role is assigned as allowed roles to view the media item you can download the file.
It's nice that we can easily protect media items but we also want to make sure that the editor doesn't accidently pick protected files using a Media Picker, or in the Rich Text Editor. Media Protect will also display the same No Access sign when you want to pick a media item using a media picker or via the Rich text editor. Not only the default Umbraco pickers but media protect is also compatible with some 3th party pickers, such as Multi Node Tree Picker (The awesome picker from UComponents) and the DIgibiz Advanced Media Picker. Best of all if you have a custom media picker you can add the alias of that media picker to the mediaprotect.config file and it will be picked up automatically.
Speaking about compatibility. Mediaprotect is based on the default ASP.Net Membership provider, so you can use the default asp.net controls for logging in etc. and you can also use your own custom membership provider. Media Protect comes with a small API you can use in a .Net usercontrol/XSLT or Razor script to determine if an item is protected, or to determine if the current logged in user has rights to access the media node.
Media protect is a commercial package, it protects your media out of the box(no need to change any document or media type , it just works).It will cost you 99 euro per domain though. If you want to protect media without spending money you might want to check out these free alternatives
If you want more info about Media protect I suggest you check out the product site. Here you find a video demonstrating the package and documentation. You can also download a fully functional free trial from our.umbraco.org. This will work on your local machine (localhost), only thing you get for free is a nice yellow sign that says you are running in Trial mode. The trial never expires and when you want to deploy your site you can buy a license for that domain or buy an enterprise license for your whole company.
Last week I've released CMSImport 1.2 (Pro). This was a minor release mainly to fix a few bugs
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Again this was a very small release. Mainly to fix some errors.
The most requested feature is structured import. I'm very happy to announce that this will be included in CMSImport Pro 2.0. The video below demonstrates how this will work. I've tried to keep this as simple and flexible as possible and hope I have succeeded, if not I hope to hear from you.
CMSImport 2.0 Structured import demo from Richard Soeteman on Vimeo.
Of course structured import will not be the only new feature. Below you find a list of all other functionality that will be included
CMSImport 2.0 will support new data sources to import from such as:
If you have a specific product, or data format you want to import from please let me know through the comment form.
In version 1.1 I've introduced field adapters. These field adapters are great to convert data from a data source to the format that is accepted by the Umbraco data type, but sometimes you need to specify some additional information. For example when you import data and want to map url's against the Ucomponents Url picker you want to specify if the link needs to be opened in a new window or not. Currently that is only possible with a config file, not very friendly. In 2.0 it will be possible to specify some additional options like you have to do now when you import related media.
CMSImport 2.0 will come with support for third party packages such as UComponents, SuperSimpleWebshop,Teacommerce and Blog4Umbraco.
Ok official it was released in the beginning of October, but the manual wasn't finished and I couldn't upgrade existing clients to 1.1. From a customer satisfaction point of it was very important for me to have these things ready before blogging about all the cool new features. So what's new?
The main feature that is added to CMSImport PRO is the ability to import media related to content or member data. This isn't a separate import process but integrated in content or media import. When CMSImport finds a reference to a relative path it will try to get the item and convert it to a media item, or store it in the media folder in case of an upload field. The only required thing is that the original media folder is copied to the root of your Umbraco folder.
In the example below the img folder of the original site containing two images is stored in the Umbraco root.
In the Import wizard you can specify that you want to import media items also. Check the option "Import content related media". If you want to map media against media pickers and/or the TinyMCE editor, you need to specify a media folder also. CMSImport will keep the imported folder structure.
Then in the next step you can create the mapping like you would normally do.
When the import process is finished you'll see that the media items are imported
And when you open an imported item in the content section you'll see that all the references are updated to the imported media items
Again you don't need to do anything extra apart from downloading the original media folder to you Umbraco Install.
Currently this import process will work for the following datatypes:
In future releases CMSImport will support custom datatypes and File import for the TinyMCE datatype also.
FieldAdapters are used to convert original values from the datasource to a value the DataType expects. In previous versions when you wanted to import boolean data from a CSV file and map that against a true/false dataType, it would have failed because the True/False datatype could only handle the integer values 1/0 or a real boolean.
FieldAdapters fix those issues. During import of a field CMSImport will check based on the underlying datatype if a value can/must be converted.
The following snippet contains the implementation of the BooleanFieldAdapter( just to show how little coding is needed for a better import experience). It will add a relation to the True/False dataType based on the DataTypeID property . This must be the same GUID as the True/False datatype. Then in the Parse method it will inspect if the value is either 0 or 1, if not it will convert the value to a real boolean.
1: public class BooleanFieldAdapter : IFieldAdapter 2: { 3: /// <summary> 4: /// Contains the GUID of the true/false datatype we want to parse using this FieldAdapter 5: /// </summary> 6: /// <value></value> 7: public Guid DataTypeId 8: { 9: get { return new Guid("38b352c1-e9f8-4fd8-9324-9a2eab06d97a"); } 10: } 11: 12: /// <summary> 13: /// Parse the data 14: /// </summary> 15: /// <param name="value">The value to parse</param> 16: /// <param name="fieldAdapterService">The field adapter service.</param> 17: /// <returns></returns> 18: public object Parse(object value, Property property, FieldAdapterOptions fieldAdapterService) 19: { 20: if (!(value.Equals("0") || value.Equals("1"))) 21: { 22: // Parse boolean value and return result 23: bool boolValue = false; 24: bool.TryParse(value.ToString(), out boolValue); 25: 26: return boolValue; 27: 28: } 29: return value; 30: } 31: }
1: public class BooleanFieldAdapter : IFieldAdapter
2: {
3: /// <summary>
4: /// Contains the GUID of the true/false datatype we want to parse using this FieldAdapter
5: /// </summary>
6: /// <value></value>
7: public Guid DataTypeId
8: {
9: get { return new Guid("38b352c1-e9f8-4fd8-9324-9a2eab06d97a"); }
10: }
12: /// <summary>
13: /// Parse the data
14: /// </summary>
15: /// <param name="value">The value to parse</param>
16: /// <param name="fieldAdapterService">The field adapter service.</param>
17: /// <returns></returns>
18: public object Parse(object value, Property property, FieldAdapterOptions fieldAdapterService)
19: {
20: if (!(value.Equals("0") || value.Equals("1")))
21: {
22: // Parse boolean value and return result
23: bool boolValue = false;
24: bool.TryParse(value.ToString(), out boolValue);
26: return boolValue;
28: }
29: return value;
30: }
31: }
This mechanism is very powerful. In fact the whole media import is based on this. Currently it only support a few default Umbraco Datatypes. For later versions I will make sure that FieldAdapters will fix import issues for all popular third party datatypes, like Ucomponents also. If you don't want to wait for that use the API to create your own FieldAdapter and include it in your package.
In 1.0 you could extend CMSImport. but extension points existed in different assemblies. With version 1.1 all extension points exist in the CMSImport.Extensions.DLL. Using this assembly you can create your own DataAdapters and FieldAdapters and you can use the event system. In chapter 8 of the manual you can read all about this. I've also created a sample project that you can use as a start. This contains samples from how to create a DataType to how to support Structured Import using the Event System. This was written for CMSImport PRO but you can use it for CMSIMport also, although not all samples will work. The sample code uses the AdventureWorks database a DataSource. You can download this database from CodePlex and you can download the Samples from the CMSImport site.
This following other small changes are included in this release.
In the 1.0 release I was using an older version of the this Csv Parser. This one is upgraded to the newest release an didn't have any issues with it.
When you deleted the root folder in CMSImport PRO 1.0. The only message that you would get was "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" and you could start all over again. In the current version CMSImport will report what is wrong and allows you to fix those issues.
The whole import process and API is documented now. You can download the manual from the CMSImport site.
When a new document is created during the import process and the import process fails the document will be deleted instead of left in the tree.
When a value contains null it will not be mapped against the Document property. This will save a few database calls according to this blogpost. This is only for new imported documents. When a document is being updated the null value could be the new value and therefore will be assigned to the property.
The coming 1.2 version will include more FieldAdapters and support for third party Datatypes. This will be included in both the Free and Pro edition of CMSImport.. I hope to have this ready by the end of this year. I'm also working on version 2.0 that will support structured import out of the box. This will be released early next year. Structured Import will only be included in the PRO edition.
Download the free version from our.umbraco.org. Please vote up the package if you like it. Or buy a Pro license from the CMSImport website.
Now that version 4.5 of Umbraco is out you want to make sure that your packages work in both 4.0.x and 4.5. Or is that just me? So far I've had two compatibility issues
I'm using the Umbraco property GlobalSettings.Path (which correspondents with the umbracoPath setting in the web.config file) to determine the Umbraco folder. This used to be /Umbraco, Umbraco 4.5 supports virtual folder so it's changed to ~/umbraco. To solve this for both 4.0.x and 4.5 you can use the ToAbsolute method of the VirtualPathUtility class. The example below will convert the virtual path ~/umbraco to absolute.
In Umbraco you can create classed that implement the IAction interface which gives you the possibility to add menu options to the context menu of a tree. In previous versions of Umbraco you could use inline JavaScript in the JSFunctionName property to have client side functionality. In Umbraco 4.5 the clientside model is changed and if you include direct JavaScript into the JSFunction name the complete tree will break. Good thing is that Shannon AKA @Shazwazza fixed a bug in 4.5 so the JSSource property of your action class now actually gets rendered and you can include the function here, downside is that this isn't the case in 4.0 and we now need to think of a way to determine if we are in 4.0 or 4.5. For CMSImport and MemberExport I'm using a CompatibilityHelper Class that I've created. On this class I have a property SupportsJQueryTree that returns true if the CurrentVersion setting is not 4.0.
/// <summary> /// This class is introduced because 4.5 is a little bit different from 4.0.x /// One single place to have nasty checks if the Umbraco environment supports a feature or not /// </summary> public static class CompatibilityHelper { public static bool SupportsJQueryTree { get { return !GlobalSettings.CurrentVersion.StartsWith("4.0"); } } }
Now I can determine in my action if the JQueryTree is supported and render JavaScript for that, otherwise I will render JavaScript for the old Tree. In the snippet below you see the Implementation that I'm using in CMSImport to start an import from a node tree
public string JsFunctionName { get { if (CompatibiltyHelper.SupportsJQueryTree) { //Environment supports the new tree call Javascript via a function //doing this with inline script this will cause the tree to crash return "StartWizard()"; } else { //The old tree could not have a function in JsSource, use inline script instead. return " parent.right.document.location.href = '" + umbraco.GlobalSettings.Path + "/plugins/CMSImport/Pages/wizard.aspx?id=' + nodeID; "; } } } public string JsSource { get { if (CompatibiltyHelper.SupportsJQueryTree) { //Assign a function. return "function StartWizard(){ parent.right.document.location.href = '" + VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("/plugins/CMSImport/Pages/wizard.aspx") + "?id=' +
UmbClientMgr.mainTree().getActionNode().nodeId ; }"; } else { //Doesn't work in 4.0.x return string.Empty; } } }
This might sound like a hack and it really is a hack. But for me this works. Within a few months just a small percentage of the Umbraco users is using 4.0, the rest is on 4.5 and I might drop support for 4.0 then and only need to delete this CompatibilityHelper class and delete the old 4.0.x code
So far these are the only compatibility issues I've found (I don't use the new schema in my packages). If I find more I will create a separate blogpost for it. Hope this post helps you with your compatibility issues in your packages
A few weeks back I've blogged about the new MemberExport package I was working on. Today I can tell you it's released, both the free and the Pro (commercial) version. For those who missed the last blogpost…. MemberExport (Pro) helps you export members from your Umbraco installation to a csv file. The Free edition is limited to export only 200 records. With the PRO version it's possible to save the export options steps for later use .
The free edition of MemberExport can be found on our.umbraco.org. Please vote the project up if you used and liked it.
You can buy a single domain license of MemberExport PRO. With a single domain license you are allowed to use MemberExport PRO for a single domain and all subdomains, such as www.example.com, accept.example.com, and local.example.com. We also have a Enterprise license available. With an Enterprise license you are allowed to install the MemberExport PRO package on unlimited production web servers, and use it for unlimited Umbraco instances within the Enterprise. A single domain license will be available for 39 Euro, an enterprise license for 149 euro. When you buy a license you'll get free updates within 90 days of purchase and free updates for all minor releases within a major release. For example, if you purchased a 1.0 version of MemberExport PRO, you get free updates of all 1.x versions through our client area.
Special 1.0 offer. When you buy the 1.0 release you'll get a free update to 2.x. This is a 1.0 offer only!
For more info, download, or purchase you can check out the MemberExport website
For those who follow me on twitter probably know that I'm working on a new package for Umbraco that can export Members to a csv file. Below you see the first screenshot of the package. Basically you select the groups and fields you want to export, you specify the export options and when you click the export button a csv file is generated on the fly which you can download.
Two days ago I started tweeting about this because I was very happy that exporting a few hundred members only took 2 seconds. Immediately people warned me about the fact that I used Member.GetAll to get a list of all the members which is very slow when you want to export more than 500 records. Thanks again for this warning guys (also for the brain breaking sql I had to write to improve the performance ). So I changed the Member.GetAll functionality to a custom SQL query, imported 5000 extra records and did a performance test to see if the modification was a success. Guess what, the export of 5000+ records only took 2142 milliseconds. I think that's a great result to end the week with.
Next Monday I will send the package to a few people that want to beta test MemberExport. When it's stable enough I'll release the package. There will be two versions of the package, a free (limited to export 200) records version and a PRO version that can also save the export options for later use. The price for the pro version will be 39 euro (ex 19% Dutch VAT, only for Dutch customers) .
I hope you find the package interesting!


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Masters was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Judith Johnson, 63, Mt. Morris.
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Smells a lot like bulllllshiiiiiit.
Denied. <3
Told you.
Smells a lot like bulllllshiiiiiit.
Denied. <3
Told you.
Just thought I'd let you know I swapped around my minor and major skills. It made more sense for him to be better at fighting than blacksmithing as he's still an apprentice blacksmith and has had at least 5 years of training from his father at fighting.
MelonHead does not give out free Melons.
Just thought I would browse this RP and submit a character if there are still openings.
The writer who cares more about words than about characters, action, setting, and atmosphere is unlikely to create a vivid and continuous dream; he gets in his own way too much; in his poetic drunkenness, he can't tell the cart- and its cargo- from the horse.
-John Gardner
"Grieve not, wise warrior. It is better
to avenge one's friend than mourn too much.
Each of us must one day reach the end
Of worldly life, let him who can win
glory before he dies: that lives on
after him, when he lifeless lies."
Eclava Oussrett(Chaos Omega - Heiress to the Void)
Chaos Omega,
Void Executioner,
Void Torturer
Chaos Executioner
This class is a fairly odd one; her methods employ mind, body, and spirit execution and torture. Using her charm, and body, she can lure even captives into a false state of security, before the torture and eventual execution begins.
Eclava's personality is best attributed to Chaotic Evil, to an extreme. She won't hesitate to execute anyone who disrespects her or even disagrees with her, though sometimes the latter is allowed to slip. Her dislike of the Drow's dependence on Lloth, has led her down a path of evil to the point her appearance[above] reflects this. White war paint. In fact all visible skin upon her is covered in the paint. She has somewhat of a soft spot for spiders, and people with spider spirits, and will go into a rage if one is trampled upon in her presence. It is said she plans to kill everyone who stands before her, to the point during their conversations, she is secretly plotting out weak points, attaching spiders, and finding ways to kill the person in question. Due to her dark aura, she has a type of black beauty that draws many men, and women, to her.
Spirit Animal:
The Drow Goddess, Lloth, is known to have a Spider by her side at all times. As if to spit in the face of the Goddess, Eclava's spirit is that of Black Widow Spider- One favored by that of Lloth. Eclava has gained so much control of this particular spirit that it rarely ever ceases to be completely physical- giving her a moving throne. It's sheer size and appearance is enough to strike fear into those who see it.
Spirit World:
A large spider-web; glistening with the shiny string and streaks of fresh blood.
- A whip fashioned with thorn points along the entire 20 foot length.
- Several vials of poison. Can be directly injected, or inhaled.-- x3 that causes shock
-- x3 that causes the body to become paralyzed, yet can still feel pain.
-- x3 causes the person to tell the truth- x1 Long Poled Axe - Primary function - Execution
- x1 Small Dagger
Her Major Skill; birthed in the darkest parts of the UnderDark, she grew up around the vile screams of those who had wronged the Drow Goddess, Lloth, or the heirarchy of the Drow Underworld. Instead of taking to the normal life-route of women of Drow, she followed in the footsteps of her father, Tsabdaz'yraen(Void Wanderer Heretic) Oussrett(Heir to the Void). He taught her the most evil of traits; Execution. She was taught the immediate kill-points, which she does not fancy, as well as the ways to execute a person via their mind or soul; whichever tickles her fancy. Her main style of execution, follows the Soul - Mind - Body method; the most heinous of the Execution Methods in Allaria. Her prowess in this skill is so great, that even in the icy tundras of Northern Allaria tell their offspring she is the Void Executioner, and if they are bad, she will come and kill them.
Her minor skill. Due to her birthplace, and her chosen path, she was also taught to torture her victims first, earning her the name 'Void Torturer'. She normally keeps several 'Transporters' with her, to make it easy to transport her tools for this trade. One stays with the object and one stays with Eclava. Being twins, they can send objects between each other, and at times, even themselves. Using these tools, she has effectively broken down strong willed men, and even stronger willed creatures via methods that, if revealed, would lend themselves to a long bloodbath, which would be effectively named 'Blood River.' Several of her victimes are still alive, still being tortured by her heinous inventions.
- Shadows:
What better magic for her, than the control of a Dark Material? Using Shadows she can encase her victims in a darkness that is sure to bring out their wildest fears. There are many other uses for her shadows.
She is moderate at poison generation.
- Spiders:
She can command spiders at will, any nearby spiders will immediately seek to attack targets or relay information to the woman.
Her most direct strength is the fear she can instill in people at a glance, especially if they already know her history. Another strength is her innate knowledge of the human/elf/drawf/etc., etc Physiology, which goes hand in hand with her torturer nature and her execution knack. Her diplomatic skills are nothing to frown upon, both that and her infamy led her to the New Council, and her dominance over the majority of the hook. She also has all the normal strengths of a Drow, in terms of sight and hearing. Her lack of faith in Lloth, allows her to do more than the average Drow.
Her biggest weakness is her lack of defense; rather playing on her exceptional agility and speed to evade attacks, rather than take them all at once. To make up for this, two of her associates are skilled in barriers and defense, but are rather slow and weak. Another weakness of hers is her ultimate fear of dying. Without a belief, her soul is said to be subjugated to all the pain that it has inflicted in the Material World; for Eclava, that is her biggest fear. She actively searches for a way to extend her life indefinitely, often attributing to her violent mood. She also dislikes ice, abhors it even, so much so that she won't go to the Northern Tundras, without a damn good reason.
Edan Es-Olrig
Thirty-Five in Minotaur years
(Approximate height, and weapon)
Edan-Es is a rather violent man, evident by his instatiable need to cause as much havoc when presented with the chance. He has a highly analytical mind that allows for his aggression to be maximized. He is also in love with Eclava, though he doesn't think he can be with her, because he was formerly her underling. The promotion, he thinks, may help his chances. Having never believed in Sargas, Edan-Es trained himself to fend for himself and be able to strive and even thrive through physical and mental tortures brought about by surviving alone in an unknown land.
Spirit Animal:
Edan-Es has always had an odd spirit; it has always been a young human woman, dressed in rags to cover up her womanly parts. A chain it wrapped around her neck, and it is held by a spirit chain connected to Edan's neck. The chain is extendable as he wishes and he can move it to his hands if he wants to reel her in. However, this is not a full on human form for his spirit, no one knows what that exactly looks like. He has named her Lillith.
Spirit World:
Edan's Spirit world is not as peculiar as his spirit animal is. In fact is it naught more than a simple dungeon, wherein the woman in chains is often captured.
Minotaurian Battle Armor:
The minotaur race is not known for their smithing skills, but they do make some sturdy armor for themselves. Complete with a left shoulder guard, twin gauntlets(Right and left arms), and a lower torso guard.
Minotaur Battle-Axe:
This was made for Bastionihotaki de-Nordmir, as a favor for Sargas, by the God, Abbathor. It has magical properties that allow it to be wielded only by the victor in mortal combat over the owner. While the death of Bastion, at the hands of Edan-Es, was not a rightful battle, death did occur, thus, the ownership magic was taken into effect and Edan-Es became the owner.
Rations and such for when he is hungry
Food Bag
He couple of piercings in his horns.
Military Strategist
Were not for his best friend's untimely death, Edan-Es probably would have made him proud with his knowledge in military sequences, movements, history, and strategy. With intelligence on par with his Bastion's, Edan-Es has effectively solidified himself as a valuable asset. By virtue of pure knowledge of all mountain ranges Edan-Es can, will, and has, provided logistics for them all; down to the last rock.
Minotaurian Warrior
As an elite in the armies of the Minotaur, Edan-Es boasts significant martial abilities. His skill with the Battle Axe, and his uncanny ability to form strategies(reminiscent of his best friend) quickly saw him rise through the ranks. However, for each level he rose, the love he had for Eclava grew, as did his aggression and dislike for Ivan. Eclava often calls on him to train new recruits in the battle style of the Apotheoses, a hard style fit for the most battle-hardened of warriors. Tutelage under him, has seen an army evolve into something better than the Valgarian Undead's militia.
None, personally. The Axe he carries is magicked to be bound to whoever kills the owner. In this case, Edan-Es is the master of the Axe, because he killed the former owner, Bastionihotaki de-Nordmir. The axe, while able to be stolen, cannot be wielded without proper rights of ownership.
Edan-Es possess remarkably strength, even for a Minotaur. This is evident by his ability to lift up the battle axe he won from Bastion. He is also an excellent tactian, having learned under Bastion and then under the Apotheoses, and further still beneath Eclava. His defenses are quite extreme, making him an able tank when faced with normal weapons. It is said that when Eclava first took him under her wing, he was already slated to be a Apotheoses Lord, with a little more training.
Like many Minotaur, Edan-Es is not an agile being. While he can run at a decent speed, he will never be considered the fastest being in the world. Unless, he is on all fours, he has an increased chance of toppling over if attacked in the lower regions, though his hide makes up for this. Also, he is emotionally attached to Eclava, so he'll do all in his power to keep her alive and safe.
Explained in earlier posts.
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He prefers to use history to shape his own future. This is why he was initially accepted as Eclavas third, his knowledge of history has proven him a useful asset to her campaign.
Formerly Ouroboros, but like Eclava he has his own ambitions, so he denounced the Serpent God and prays, now, to no one.
Fananatu is quite cunning for his race - evident by his intellect and his ability to get in and out of places with mere words. He does not have the mean streak, in physicality, but he is mentally detrimental to most people he meets. To him, everyone is a pawn in his game - which fits, given he is a part of a group who does the same thing. Despite this, he is often viewed as loyal, though that may be part of his visage. The only documented loyalty concerning Fananatu is to those who currently benefit himself - and now, the Apotheoses offer that and much, much more. Fananatu has a true love for the historical aspect of life, as shown with his delicate collection and upkeep of his books.
Spirit Animal:
Jadik is a special type of monkey, he represents what Fananatu was built around - history. His curious state is due to his lengthy reign in the world. He is far more knowledgeable about the past than even Fananatu, proving he is one of the foremost beings in the realm of history. He refuses to give Fananatu any of his knowledge, instead pestering him to continue on with his studies.
Spirit World:
His world is full of floating sticks; most of them edible to him, but otherwise just there. He tends to clamber from one stick to another with an alarming speed; which isnt unheard of, given hes spent his entire life learning how to do it.
Equipment(Generally carried on Fananatus person):
A bit of a buster sword, though he rarely ever uses it - preferring to use diplomacy
Books - Lots and lots of books. He is a history buff, so he uses any chance he can to study up and increase his knowledge. Some are also rune books and spell books.
Attire seen in Appearance Picture.
Food and water rations.
History Buff:
His major skill is his proficiency where history is concerned. He retains a lot of what he reads and uses it to effect his future. Further-still, he knows things of the past that some may have overlooked, such as the Rocoan Spirit - The Chimera. It is believed that a mixture of his knowledge of history and runes, can lead him to find a way to break into the past and unlock hidden away secrets.Minor:
Fananatu is quite skilled in the usage of various runes. Hes shown to have almost complete mastery over the ones he does control. His body, unlike Johics, is covered with, thus far, unnamed runes. Perhaps they mean nothing.
The only magic he has shown thus far is the use of runes, specifically teleportation runes. Strange carvings line his sword, and combined with the knowledge that he often carries around spell books, it is safe to say his expansive intellect has granted him some form of arcane magic ability.
His immense intellect is what got him so high in the Apotheoses circle. With the elevation of Edan-Es, he is to be considered for the next available rise should one come around. He is one of the smartest members of the Army, and one of the most creative, it was his idea to have Eclava walk into Rocoa alone - with the army camouflaged by the Chameleon.
Silver Tongue:
Having mastered multiple languages, his intellect has allowed him to combine them and adjust his pitch and word choice, making his words seem more silvery than they are. In fact, he is known to use words to get around fights and push people where he wants them to be. Eclava considers him a master strategist and keeps close tabs on him.
He is not the fighter type, and isnt much to brag about on defense. Close-combat, or combat where he cannot use his magic, and he is likely to go down to a few blows. To off-set this, he is never expressly sent out to the battlefield - anytime he does go, it is under false-pretenses.
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The Colorado River Runs Dry
Dams, irrigation and now climate change have drastically reduced the once-mighty river. Is it a sign of things to come?
- By Sarah Zielinski
- Photographs by Peter McBride
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From its source high in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River channels water south nearly 1,500 miles, over falls, through deserts and canyons, to the lush wetlands of a vast delta in Mexico and into the Gulf of California.
That is, it did so for six million years.
Then, beginning in the 1920s, Western states began divvying up the Colorado's water, building dams and diverting the flow hundreds of miles, to Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and other fast-growing cities. The river now serves 30 million people in seven U.S. states and Mexico, with 70 percent or more of its water siphoned off to irrigate 3.5 million acres of cropland.
The damming and diverting of the Colorado, the nation's seventh-longest river, may be seen by some as a triumph of engineering and by others as a crime against nature, but there are ominous new twists. The river has been running especially low for the past decade, as drought has gripped the Southwest. It still tumbles through the Grand Canyon, much to the delight of rafters and other visitors. And boaters still roar across Nevada and Arizona's Lake Mead, 110 miles long and formed by the Hoover Dam. But at the lake's edge they can see lines in the rock walls, distinct as bathtub rings, showing the water level far lower than it once was—some 130 feet lower, as it happens, since 2000. Water resource officials say some of the reservoirs fed by the river will never be full again.
Climate change will likely decrease the river's flow by 5 to 20 percent in the next 40 years, says geoscientist Brad Udall, director of the University of Colorado Western Water Assessment. Less precipitation in the Rocky Mountains will yield less water to begin with. Droughts will last longer. Higher overall air temperatures will mean more water lost to evaporation. "You're going to see earlier runoff and lower flows later in the year," so water will be more scarce during the growing season, says Udall.
Other regions—the Mediterranean, southern Africa, parts of South America and Asia—also face fresh-water shortages, perhaps outright crises. In the Andes Mountains of South America, glaciers are melting so quickly that millions of people in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador are expected to lose a major source of fresh water by 2020. In southwestern Australia, which is in the midst of its worst drought in 750 years, fresh water is so scarce the city of Perth is building plants to remove the salt from seawater. More than one billion people around the world now live in water-stressed regions, according to the World Health Organization, a number that is expected to double by 2050, when an estimated nine billion people will inhabit the planet.
"There's not enough fresh water to handle nine billion people at current consumption levels," says Patricia Mulroy, a board member of the Colorado-based Water Research Foundation, which promotes the development of safe, affordable drinking water worldwide. People need a "fundamental, cultural attitude change about water supply in the Southwest," she adds. "It's not abundant, it's not reliable, it's not going to always be there."
Mulroy is also general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, which serves two million people in greater Las Vegas. The city is one of the largest in the Colorado River basin, but its share of the river is relatively small; when officials allocated the Colorado's water to different states in 1922, no one expected so many people to be living in the Nevada desert. So Nevadans have gotten used to coping with limitations. They can't water their yards or wash their cars whenever they like; communities follow strict watering schedules. The water authority pays homeowners to replace water-gulping lawns with rocks and drought-tolerant plants. Golf courses adhere to water restrictions. Almost all wastewater is reused or returned to the Colorado River.
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Posted by Craig Fisher on October 16,2013 | 02:02 PM
Knowing what we do about the river, how can we permit development such as the mega resorts of Las Vegas to continue? For that matter, how can we permit water parks, water features, housing developments, et al, to continue. When do we begin to say "NO !"?
Posted by Edward Martin on October 5,2013 | 11:27 PM
You say Climate Change means less water for Colorado,..does all this recent flooding mean Climate Change is over? Or your agenda needs tweaking? BTW, I rafted the entire Colorado River in the mid 70's, and saw the same bathtub rings then.
Posted by normcutter on September 15,2013 | 01:42 PM
I seen a old movie from the 1930 ...Guess what same marks on the canyon walls ...
Posted by dan phillips on July 21,2013 | 05:34 PM
When the Nestle company from Switzerland got the right to take water from the Colorado River millions of gallons were removed, bottled and sold back to us, and you wonder why the river water is disappearing...
Posted by Laura Drewes on May 30,2013 | 11:55 AM
Regulate birth rate as they did in China.
Posted by Lietuva on May 25,2013 | 01:29 AM
What part of overpopulation do the peoples of the world not get? Earth is finite. Personally I believe it's too late for ANY semblance of life as we knew/know for anyone under age of 10. In a few short CENTURIES, we have used up much of the natural resources it took BILLIONS of years to create. When was the last time anyone except those over 50 perhaps was able to walk or go anywhere without multitudes of people and vehicles everywhere around them? Sorry for the doom and gloom but that is the picture AS IS NOW. Anyone with an iota of common sense HAS to see this. What to do? I can't even dream of a solution. All I know is I wouldn't bring a child into a world I don't expect to exist in any way even remotely conceivable to life as we know it. Humans are NOT superior to animals. Animals are self limiting and do not pollute their nests. Humans do it, not only to and themselves, but all other life forms on earth as well. I don't know what else to say.
Posted by charles harrison on May 6,2013 | 04:51 PM
why is the modification made in colorado river .?
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DELETE REQUEST - Moderator, how could you approve Joe Melon's comment when it was an EXACT duplicate of my accept for the last sentence? And it is offensive to woman.
Posted by Arthur on February 22,2013 | 04:13 PM
wait...are volcanoes the same thing as earthquakes?
Posted by Jon Heitz on February 20,2013 | 03:54 PM
Those who think Global Warming (climate change) is real and not a hoax perpetuated to scare people, contribute to the decline of this country today. There is ZERO conclusive evidence that such a phenomenon exists. The earth ORBIT's around the Sun in a period of 365 days and rotates one time in a 24 hour period. This is why there are SEASONS and is drastically different all over the Earth. The river is collapsing because HUMAN's think they can defy nature. They wanted water in a place there was none, so built dams to divert the rivers natural path. And then those same humans cry when homes and land are flooded, or when the river dries up! The government, via regulations of the EPA, stands to make a lot of money from corporations if they can get the public to believe the myths of global warming. Open a sexy teacher(bra in 1980) and see how things actually work. Stop believing the government or "so-called" drug dealers who massage the crack, to help justify to Grant weed.
Posted by joe melon on February 20,2013 | 01:15 PM
Those who think Global Warming (climate change) is real and not a hoax perpetuated to scare people, contribute to the decline of this country today. There is ZERO conclusive evidence that such a phenomenon exists. The earth ORBIT's around the Sun in a period of 365 days and rotates one time in a 24 hour period. This is why there are SEASONS and is drastically different all over the Earth. The river is collapsing because HUMAN's think they can defy nature. They wanted water in a place there was none, so built dams to divert the rivers natural path. And then those same humans cry when homes and land are flooded, or when the river dries up! The government, via regulations of the EPA, stands to make a lot of money from corporations if they can get the public to believe the myths of global warming. Open a science book (pre-dated 1980) and see how things actually work. Stop believing the government or "so-called" scientists who massage the data, to help justify the Grant money.
Posted by Arthur on February 7,2013 | 01:12 PM
this was helpful but I wish there were more positives about the river, beacuse I have to preform a debate about water conservation and hydroelctric power, and I have to argue from both sides... not just the negative side!
Posted by Megan on January 30,2013 | 05:32 PM
this helped me alot for my science project, but i wish there were more on the colorado river and less about people's opion... more cold hard facts!
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Posted 10 August 2003 - 08:48 AM
I know that I am looking for "my diamond in the rough" keyword and/or keyword phrase. A handful of them actually - as I want to optimize some pages/sections differently (according to content).
I want to find that perfect little match that is searched often enough to suit me but produces the fewest websites as a result... Ideally at least 100x a day but would easily go for 30-50 if there were very few results and it was highly targeted...
Is there a "trick" to all of this? I've been wading through words for hours LOL... or perhaps a good WordTracker tutorial that you'd highly recommend?
Maybe I'm just a coffee short this morning
Posted 10 August 2003 - 10:16 AM
Your not alone in this. I use WordTracker all the time but am never sure I have done it right or extracted all the magic from it that is supposed to be available.I'm sitting in WordTracker... and I'm lost
Is there a "trick" to all of this? I've been wading through words for hours LOL... or perhaps a good WordTracker tutorial that you'd highly recommend?
What I think you are talking about in particular -- the magic phrase that nobody else uses -- is the KEI value. If you have folllowed Jill's writtings she calims to be a great admirer and user of WordTracker -- I hope that isn't putting words in her mouth -- but she says she ignores the KEI factor.
So if you are going to ignore the KEI factor what else have you got left? All I can see is a tools that will give you the count, hence popularity of a key word phrase, and suggest a whole bunch of related variations or alternatives that you may not have not thought of.
In fact if this is all WordTracker will give you I feel it is over priced. You can get almost this same information from Overture for free.
Posted 10 August 2003 - 10:31 AM
I have decided that WordTracker is more accurate than Overture's tool... but I'm open to hearing both sides on that.
Do you care to expound on KEI?
As a webmaster, I'm no newbie to optimizing web pages for the search engines, but keyword research (and designing a website around a keyword-marketing-strategy) I AM new to (somewhat)... but really want to get this down!!
Thanks again - Really glad to have found this group!!
Posted 10 August 2003 - 10:38 AM
You said:
I want to find that perfect little match that is searched often enough to suit me but produces the fewest websites as a result...
I would suggest that you don't need to find the one that produces the fewest websites as a result. Which is what Compar was alluding to in saying that I ignore the KEI factor.
If you find good keyword phrases that are completely relevant and specific to what your site is all about, it shouldn't matter how many sites happen to use those phrases on their pages. Sure, you can visit the top 10 or 20 pages that use the words and see if they are actually optimized well for the phrase, but YOU have the advantage over them all, because you will actually optimize specifically for the phrases (not just use them per chance).
Check to see if the top sites have the keyword phrase in their Title tags. That's a good start. Then check if they're using them within the copy on the page, and if so, is it just once or twice? Then check the backwards links of the top pages. Do they have hundreds? Thousands? Or just 5?
The number of pages that show up for a keyword phrase doesn't mean anything. The number of "optimized" pages is what matters.
YOU can beat most pages because most people don't have a clue about SEO!
Good luck!
Posted 10 August 2003 - 11:19 AM
Right on, but it's even better than that. You can beat a lot more because they just aren't trying, or aren't targeting the same things.YOU can beat most pages because most people don't have a clue about SEO!
If you recall, last summer my stupid little sales letter was right up there with highrankings.com for "search engine optimization" on Google. Not too hard, since you weren't laser-targeting that specific search term, and I had an optimized page.
But that brings up the other side of the coin, which is that a lot of folks are choosing not to optimize, or at least overlooking some search terms, because they can't figure out how to work it into their copy.
Removing the words "search engine optimization" from my headline dropped my rankings for that term off the map, but the new headline also tripled the sales. I'm sure there's some way I could have found a "middle ground," but I'm probably not the only business owner who's more worried about converting the visitors they have.
Posted 10 August 2003 - 11:25 AM
What you are talking about is the KEI formula. It's a great little formula but many of us have discovered that using it exclusively can cause problems.
Good things about KEI is that it's easy to understand, can be generated by computer, often has true gems, and can surprise you with some phrases you would have never thought of.
Bad things are that it IS computer generated, and therefore skips steps that only a human could do (more about that in a sec), and can steer you AWAY from great keywords. Further, the data it uses is historical and therefore not authoritative.
One of the problems with KEI is that it's design tends to eliminate the popular and obvious in favor of the obscure. This is great if you are looking for a niche. But what if you offer services that are common (like website design). Should you avoid using the term on your site in favor of something that has less than 5,080,000 competing sites? Of course not! It's what you do. And getting to the top of the SERPS in a popular keyword is not a bad thing to aim for. Somebody has to be there.
KEI should be the last of 4 steps in keyword analysis. First, describe what you do clearly. Then look at your competitors and see what they are doing (competitors are defined as those taking traffic from you - therefore you only focus on those who are above you or at the top in the search engines for terms). Third, add industry specific terms and jargon, along with some popular terms that are used in conjunction with your product (like colors, new/used, ect). THEN do a KEI to discover anything you've missed up to this point.
If you do this in the wrong order you can find yourself focusing on niches to the point of ignoring what your site is about.
Analysis tools only look at historical data and then try to extrapolate future behavior from it. The lower the initial "P" popularity part of this formula is, the higher the KEI and, unfortunately, the lower the reliability.
Lets say that you found a term with a KEI of 10,000. Great! If you look closely, however, likely there was only one or 2 people doing a couple searches each on the term - maybe (you don't know) in the space of 5 minutes, looking for something on a whim. You, as a designer, see this great KEI and decide to focus a page of your site on it. Not a good idea. In my humble opinion, anything with a popularity of less than 50 per month is more likely to be a statistical glitch than useful information. Maybe that term will never be searched for again. Maybe it was your client trying to find his own website before he finally decided to contact an SEO!
Sometimes people vainly trying to find a site (even their own) that they know is there but isn't listed yet type in all sorts of increasingly desperate search terms. Not a good base from which to develop a business plan or website.
Also, maybe it is easier to get ranked higher if there are only 500 competing sites compared to 5 million. But is there a practical difference between 3 million competing sites and 5 million? Honestly, the only thing that matters in difficulty of ranking is the quality of the SEO in sites in the top 30. This is why you do the competition check before the KEI. It's more important.
My final point is that you really don't know what someone will search on for your service or product in the future. All you know is that it will be somehow related to your service or product. Talk about your service or product both specifically and generally and your site will come up on niche searches that may have never even been done before. The first time someone searches for something, someones website almost always comes up - why not you? Look to the future, not the past.
I'll post a Wordtracker Tutorial that would help with all 4 steps later if you want.
1. Describe your product or service, ignoring "keywords" per se That's your basic copy.
2. Visit the top 5 non-paid sites (could be numbers 6-10) and do a competition check. Whats good? What's bad? What keywords are they using? Fill out or edit your basic copy to reflect what you just learned.
3. Check forums, information sites and FAQ's in the subject area and take note of trends and commonly used terms that people who are potential customers use. Fill out or edit your basic copy to reflect what you just learned.
4. Do a KEI and look for niche terms. You can actually skip the KEI and just use Overture or Google to tell you how many times particular niche terms have been used. Make some final adjustments based on this.
I hope this helps rather than confuses.
Wow, it took me so long to write this that serveral other people have posted in the meantime. Oops.
Posted 10 August 2003 - 12:11 PM
For instance you might find a phrase that has an outstanding KEI value in Google, but if you check it in MSN or Altavista is is completed different. This inconsistency even on generic type phrases has always made me question the importance and relevance of this factor.
Posted 10 August 2003 - 12:24 PM
I'm interested in how you came to this conclusion. WordTracker gives you more information -- both the number of times a keyword phrase was searched on and the number of web sites listed by the search engines when the phrase is searched on. However one of the databases you can use within WordTracker is the Overture database.I have decided that WordTracker is more accurate than Overture's tool... but I'm open to hearing both sides on that.
In fact one of the problems I have with WordTracker is deciding which database to use. Just like the KEI factor the popularity and ranking of search terms can be significantly different between databases. So while there is no doubt WordTracker give you more info than Overture if you are going to ignore the KEI factor, and like me end up using the Overture database within WordTracker most of the time, then I can't see how Wordtracker is significantly more accurate or valuable?
Posted 12 August 2003 - 04:59 AM
Every time I do this I get many many more searches for any search term on Overture than on Google, yet Google has more traffic???
Posted 12 August 2003 - 05:23 AM
Let me address your original concern and tell you how I use Wordtracker.
First I use the compressed database, since it seems to contain all the search terms that the comprehensive database does, but the comprehensive DB breaks them down into singulars and plurals, caps and no caps, etc, and at this point I'm not worried about those fine distinctions.
I enter my best search terms from my brainstorming sessions and add every word to the results except those I am sure do not apply to my site. I very quickly generate a list of perhaps 300 keyphrases. Then I go to step two and cull terms that I think do not fit my campaign for any reason, then export those results (with all the traffic ) to a text file and import that file into a spreadsheet.
I use the top traffic word to set up a category then go through my list and put a category number next to each phrase that I think fits this category.
I then sort my spreadsheet by that category and repeat the process setting up more and more categories until I have no phrases left. Then inspect each category and choose 3 phrases to target for a page that matches that category. (gut feeling helps here)
Note that I have not used the competition search at all, simply because I already know that there are only ten pages competing for the position I want, the first page.
When I look at those ten pages for my search term, I already have a very good idea of how much work its going to be to get a first page ranking on that term.
Now you need to find out how these phrases really fare traffice wise in Google and I use mini Adwords campaigns for this, but thats beyond Wordtracker.
Posted 12 August 2003 - 06:37 AM
This question may be changing the direction of this thread, but can you explain exactly what you mean by a "mini" AdWord campaign?Now you need to find out how these phrases really fare traffice wise in Google and I use mini Adwords campaigns for this, but thats beyond Wordtracker.
Posted 12 August 2003 - 10:24 AM
I only run the campaign long enough to gain a sense of what traffic and clickthroughs I can achieve on various keywords, and also on what combination of title and description gets the most clicks, sometimes only a week is enough.
Posted 12 August 2003 - 11:14 AM
I'm working with three sites on three different topics (a sort of a case-study if you will). Two of them being relatively simple to choose keywords & phrases for, the third needing to be totally revamped and some serious thought put into marketing strategy.
Learning the ins and outs of keyword research has been my only setback so far... I'm going to sit down and focus on the different options and see what I can come up with. I have myself in the mindset that this is the most important step (choosing which keywords/phrases to optimize the site/pages for). I've listened in to the tips of several that have been successful with highly targeted SE traffic... and learning everything that I can. Still wide open if you have any suggestions!
Thanks again - your replies have been very helpful so far!
p.s. - Bob, I came to that conclusion from this discussion:
Like I said - open for discussion on that one - always in learning mode!
Posted 12 August 2003 - 04:10 PM
Mel,Sure Bob:
I only run the campaign long enough to gain a sense of what traffic and clickthroughs I can achieve on various keywords, and also on what combination of title and description gets the most clicks, sometimes only a week is enough.
That's interesting. But how can you test your title and description with the limited field length that AdWords allow?
The other problem I have had with AdWord is despite the fact that they claim you can be getting click throughs in 15 minutes when I have added additional keywords to a campaign it has taken 2 or 3 days before I started getting any exposure on these words.
I wrote them about it and they said the ad had to be evaluated against each new search term before your ad is displayed.
Posted 13 August 2003 - 08:58 AM
Obviously you can't use your page title and meta description in Adwords, (or your page content for example, but you can test one or two keywords at at time. Often changing the adwords title around a bit can result in improved or deteriorated click throughs, and what you can learn from this can be imported into the construction of your web pages.
Yep to could be faster but then its lots faster than waiting for your pages to be spidered and indexed
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