How to integrate ASP.NET into RedDot CMS projects – Best practice on .NET template embedding

Is it easy to integrate .NET into your RedDot CMS project? Yes it is, if you know how and obey some simple rules. This article gives you a best practice on how to include any .NET functionality for your published website within your RedDot CMS templates.

5 Template Tips – How to use HTML and CSS within RedDot CMS – Best practice for RedDot Consultants

This article covers the key factors for successful CSS and HTML integration into your Open Text Content Management Server project. This best practice article outlines the major points to pay attention to when implementing your HTML into the CMS.

LiveServer Setup Best Practice – How To Tame The OpenText Delivery Server

Have you ever tried to set up a LiveServer install and failed to do so? This article covers the architecture of a stable Open Text Delivery Server environment. What you shouldn’t and what you should do.

7 reasons not to integrate CSS into RedDot CMS – A best practice

Another big question that comes up every couple of weeks when people start developing websites with the RedDot CMS Open Text Web Solutions Management Server is this one:

How should I integrate my CSS code into the CMS?

And the answer is fairly…

Extending Open Text Delivery Server with your own Java Classes

In this article we will show you how to find the right files to extend Open Texts Delivery Server (formerly known as RedDot LiveServer) with your own Java classes.

How to get a tidy website

Whenever a page or an entire website is published, there is the problem of producing valid XHTML code. In this article you will find out the reasons and the possibilities RedDot offers to bring valid code into the web.

Breadcrumb Navigation With Render Tags

For taming the beast that Open Text so frankly called ‘Web Solutions Management Server’ we have some pretty nice tools available since version 7.5 – Render Tags are a quick and sufficient option to create navigation elements like the breadcrumb navigation shown here.

Duplicate content publishing – SEO and Open Text Web Solutions

Avoid duplicate content by publishing content twice and trick the PageBuilder by pretending to have referenced pages instead of linked ones.

Export RedDot CMS content to Excel

How to get a quick overview of all pages of a content class (and their content elements) by exporting the instances, gathering them into one file and importing this with Excel.

Using Excel as a database source

Why not let editors who don’t work often with RedDot but daily with Excel edit their data in the environment they are used to – and let RedDot do the work? All you need is half an hour of preparation.