I've taken a look at the video and played with the sample project in VS and the framework seems great. There are a lot of things that will make my life easier. That said there are a few things that I personally find odd, like the "Website" root, myself and all my clients are very accustom to having the home page at the root so I'll most likely stick with that as my "best practice".
So with that in mind, what would be the recommended steps of adding the Hybrid Framework to an existing Umbraco 7.x site? I was thinking to start that the Umbraco.Extensions project could obviously be added to existing solution but what other key areas would need to be adjusted to make it work?
Again, kudos on a great job! Watching the video the one thing I kept thinking was why isn't his part of the core of umbraco? (i.e. generating models from doctypes, an easy way to access sitesettings, etc).
I've always had website as the root because I think that home should be on the same level as other nodes and I don't want to store and "website wide" content on the homepage. It's based on this blog with some enhancements: http://cultiv.nl/blog/tip-of-the-week-the-ultimate-site-structure-setup/
You could just try to add the Umbraco.Extensions project to an existing website and see what happens. It depends on the project you're trying to add it too. Because the default controller and route hijacking it will probably send different kind of models to your views so you would need to update those. Other than that it depends on how the existing site works. If you run into any errors just post them here and I'll see if I can help.
Thanks for watching the video. Umbraco has always been very flexible and this is just a way of showing it :-).
Adding framework to existing site
Hi there,
I've taken a look at the video and played with the sample project in VS and the framework seems great. There are a lot of things that will make my life easier. That said there are a few things that I personally find odd, like the "Website" root, myself and all my clients are very accustom to having the home page at the root so I'll most likely stick with that as my "best practice".
So with that in mind, what would be the recommended steps of adding the Hybrid Framework to an existing Umbraco 7.x site? I was thinking to start that the Umbraco.Extensions project could obviously be added to existing solution but what other key areas would need to be adjusted to make it work?
Again, kudos on a great job! Watching the video the one thing I kept thinking was why isn't his part of the core of umbraco? (i.e. generating models from doctypes, an easy way to access sitesettings, etc).
Thanks again for you work on this!
Phill
Hello,
I've always had website as the root because I think that home should be on the same level as other nodes and I don't want to store and "website wide" content on the homepage. It's based on this blog with some enhancements: http://cultiv.nl/blog/tip-of-the-week-the-ultimate-site-structure-setup/
You could just try to add the Umbraco.Extensions project to an existing website and see what happens. It depends on the project you're trying to add it too. Because the default controller and route hijacking it will probably send different kind of models to your views so you would need to update those. Other than that it depends on how the existing site works. If you run into any errors just post them here and I'll see if I can help.
Thanks for watching the video. Umbraco has always been very flexible and this is just a way of showing it :-).
Jeroen
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