Here are a few basic best practice guidelines to keep in mind when writing your controllers using the MVC pattern with ASP.NET MVC. Keep controllers "skinny, keep action methods small Your controller actions should be kept as small as possible, with business logic living in your models. "Fat Model, Skinny Controller" is the motto. Here is [...]
I use http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/ for generating my XML sitemaps for search engines. This is an older plugin but is still in use by many. For quite some time I have been getting an error "There was a problem writing your sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable" This error has been bugging me, and [...]
This will be a very quick/simple post. Maybe this is very clear to most people when they start out developing with ASP.NET MVC but it was not right away with me... When you are using 2-way model binding in MVC to bind your model to your view and back again, you MUST use properties with getters/setters, [...]
Last post we talked about making good use of html headers in your content to help boost SEO results. This time I want to talk about using the Google Adwords keyword tool. This probably should have been my very first post in the series. Afterall, if you aren't targeting the correct keywords for your [...]
In my last SEO tips post, I talked about page descriptions. In this post I want to quickly touch on headings in your pages, and how they can be used in your SEO efforts. There isn't a whole lot to say about headings other than: Use only one <H1> per page, and [...]
Last post we talked about page titles. This post we will be touching on page descriptions. Page Descriptions Page descriptions are also important to SEO, but not necessarily as much as page titles. They do bear mentioning though. Your description gives readers a general idea of what your page will be about, [...]
I am beginning a small series about search engine optimization (SEO). I want to share with you some tips that I have picked up along my SEO journey. These tips are for the most part are going to be on-page optimization techniques. I am not re-inventing the wheel here, and many of [...]
I wanted to be able to wrap all method calls from any of our spring.net created objects for the purpose of some sort of performance logging. This could have been done at least two different ways Using a Spring.Aop.Framework.AutoProxy.ObjectNameAutoProxyCreator and specifying a wildcard expression to wrap advice around certain objects that match the expression. (all services only, all [...]
I was curious about what the breakdown of browser statistics looked like in 2011, and I was pleasantly surprised by what I found. These statistics are provided by W3Schools and can be found at: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp. 2011 Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Safari Opera December 20.2 % 37.7 % 34.6 % 4.2 % 2.5 % November [...]
I recently had a client who wanted to setup an online store, they had several hundred products to list, and wanted to have something up as quickly as possible. I had read quite a lot of good reviews about nopCommerce, an open source .NET shopping cart product built with MVC. I decided to give it [...]
