In the previous article, I looked at interaction offline and online and the differences between the two. As I said then, there are a lot of different ways to create an interactive experience for visitors and to learn about their preferences. Undoubtedly one way of doing so is via online forms, because…

As little as ten years ago, online communication tended to be purely one-sided. Websites presented themselves as a brochure-ware monologue to the visitor. As marketers, we usually did not know who visited our websites and what people were looking for. In the majority of cases, we were not even in control…

SDL Tridion introduced Application Monitoring as part of the SDL Tridion R5.3 GA release. This functionality enables Administrators to monitor certain aspects of the environment to ensure optimal uptime of essential processes. Tridion Application Monitoring can be extended to enable Administrators to…

Mihai Cadariu shows how to solve the challenge that occurs when you use the Content Delivery software component called Personalization & Profiling (P&P) on a different server than the server to which the Web site visitor logs in.

In a non-distributed environment, P&P runs on the…

The SDL Tridion Object Cache is an in-memory cache that stores frequently used objects from the Content Data Store. The cache keeps objects available to applications for repeated usage. This prevents SDL Tridion Content Delivery from having to retrieve objects from the Content Data Store for each request…

In R5.3 GA, SDL Tridion introduced Object Caching using JMS as a mechanism for synchronization of the caches. The mechanism allows cached objects, cached by the websites, to be invalidated in the event of a newer version of the object being deployed to the website. JMS based messaging provides a more…

There is more to installing SDL Tridion R5 than simply clicking 'Next'. The following few simple guidelines can help you install SDL Tridion R5 in a way that leads to less issues and better results.

1. Install SDL Tridion software on a suitable partition
   
   Most organizations split the…

This article gives a detailed step-by-step guide to configuring both your ASP.NET Web application and your SDL Tridion Content Manager to enable the publishing of pages that contain dynamic links using the new ASP.NET Server Controls introduced in version 5.3 of SDL Tridion R5. Although all this information…

Making your Visual Studio 2005 code work with COM and .NET 1.1 This article explains: * how you can make code you develop in Visual Studio 2005 visible to COM applications * how you can make code you develop in Visual Studio 2005 run in a .NET 1.1 environment

Some parts of SDL Tridion software…