DotNest blog
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Featured DotNest site: Orchard Beginner!
We're pleased to announce a brand new DotNest site that will be a massive help for Orchard newcomers: Orchard Beginner! Orchard Beginner really aims to help those who're just starting with Orchard. The site's content is still being expanded rapidly but it already gives Orchard rookies some very essential guidelines.
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Demo Orchard sites on DotNest: Try Orchard!
So what if you're a total newcomer to Orchard but want to see it in action, without having to download, install, set up anything or signing up anywhere (not even DotNest)? You can Try Orchard!
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Another set of new themes for DotNest sites!
BindTuning, a well-known company of theme designers and web developers from Portugal contributed some of their themes so that they are available to DotNest users for free!
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New themes available for DotNest sites!
We have released two Bootstrap-based themes that are available for every DotNest site for free: Philip Senechal, the well-known Orchard theme development professional and freelancer known for his cool Boostrap-based themes provided us with updated, Orchard 1.8-compatible versions for two of his themes:
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DotNest sites just got faster with Combinator resource sharing
As you may know, all DotNest sites have the Combinator module enabled (and configured) by default. This module automatically bundles and minifies static resources (like stylesheets and script files) to enhance client-side performance. Now Combinator got a lot faster with a feature called resource sharing.
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DotNest leaves Preview
The Preview phase of DotNest ends today. We're very excited to take DotNest to the next level, because we really strive to provide an awesome Orchard SaaS for you!
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Custom templating now available!
Until now you could only theme your DotNest site by using stylesheets. But now these dark days are over! We present you the power of Liquid Markup templates!
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An almost perfect YSlow score for DotNest sites
Client-side performance matters - of course. That's why we optimized DotNest to be fast out of the box not just when work is done on the server but also on the client-side.
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Learn more about how we run DotNest on Orchard Harvest!
As you all surely know, the third Orchard Harvest conference will be between 9-11 June in Seattle. If you attend (or watch the recordings later) you'll be able to also hear about what's under the hood of DotNest in our "Building an Orchard SaaS - DotNest" talk. We'll share the experiences of building and operating DotNest so you can make your own Orchard web apps better. See you at Harvest!
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Search engine optimize your DotNest sites with Onestop.Seo!
Search engine optimization (i.e. tuning your site to be on top of Google pages) is not so "in" than a few years back, but it still matters a lot, and not just for search engines, but for the general user experience. We added the SEO module by Onestop to DotNest, available to everybody!
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