Sears eCommerce debacle
No wonder Sears is getting kicked in the rear by Amazon and others. I want to buy a socket set, cool it's on sale at sears for $17.99 regularly $29.99. The Newington store has two in stock. Continuing with my iPad I start the order. I notice on the checkout…
How a half price coupon for a state inspection almost cost me $700 at Portsmouth Ford.
...or how the service department at Portsmouth Ford tried to get me to purchase unneeded services for over $700. March is car tag and state inspection due month for my 2010 F150. Being thrifty, I looked online at Portsmouth Ford's coupon specials and found a half price coupons for a…
Migrating Sitecore users from one instance to another without losing their passwords using SQL 2008 R2.
You can copy Sitecore users from one instance to another using a package however their passwords will be reset. If you want to copy users without losing passwords The Inside Corner site has a page that describes how to migrate Sitecore users from one installation to another: http://www.theinsidecorner.com/en/SiteAdmins/SiteSecurity/SitecoreAccounts/MigratingAccounts. This description…
How to redirect a specific domain to a sublevel page on a different domain using URL Rewrites in IIS7
Anytime I have to look up something twice in three days I figure I might need that info again. Sometimes you have multiple domains pointing to the same site one of which might be a "marketing domain". Here's how to redirect a domain request to a page on a different…
Another way to redirect mobile devices to m. subdomain
Mortaza Kamal Nourestani posted here a way to ensure that mobile devices are served at a "m." subdomain site, and that desktop devices are served at the normal domain. Here's my take on that using a resolver in the httprequest pipeline. This only requires adding a class, and .config file…
Handy Sitecore Admin URLs
A while back one of our enterprise Sitecore clients* called in a panic because they could not access the Sitecore desktop. Somehow the English language item had gotten deleted overnight. We told them about the dbbrowser page where they were able to undo the damage. I realized not every Sitecore developer…
Best practice for managing Rewrite Rules in IIS7
When moving a client from an old site to a new one, you frequently need to redirect Legacy URLs to new ones to maintain SEO. IIS 7 Rewrite Rules with Rewrite Maps easily accomplish this. A Rewrite Map is simply a subset of a rule with a list of source/destinations.…
Updating DNN to friendly URL’s without hurting your SEO
I manage several DotNetNuke sites and noticed I had not enabled friendly URL's on one. This is a typical DNN URL...which is not very intuitive http://www.mainesgna.org/AboutMSGNA/SGNAMembershipBenefits/tabid/67/Default.aspx Using the Friendly URL feature this is the same page's URL: http://www.mainesgna.org/AboutMSGNA/SGNAMembershipBenefits.aspx I wanted to changed the URL scheme, but I didn't want lose…