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In EPiServer CMS 5 you can simply add EditMenuName: Introduction to any CSS rule in your edior.css and you would get an extra option in the X/HTML editor and this is how you can do it in EPiServer CMS 6 with Tiny MCE.

SiteValidator is a tool that can help you to maintain high quality of the code both during development and after delivery. I will show how to create your own tests to test exactly what you think is important.

Folder browser property is a very useful plugin for EPiServer CMS and is now available for version 6 of the CMS.

Because all images in ImageVault is served with an http handler it's not possible to configure expire headers the normal way by configuring the cache control for static content.

It's been quite a while since my last post but now I would like to share some small but useful tips regarding ImageVault.

In my experiance it's very common that unexperianced editors very often copies a page in EPiServer from one place to another without changing the url segment.
This behavior can cause the url to very unfriendly and bad from usability point of view.

Increase your web sites accessibility by measuring text readability.

In typesetting, a widow is the final word of a paragraph or heading if it falls down on the next line. This is an example of bad typhography and should be corrected if possible.

In the spirit of Microsoft's official embrace of jQuery, I'd like to show you an example of how you can add jQuery functionality to ImageVault.

A pretty common thing to implement on a web site is a breadcrumb and with EPiServers PageSiteMapProvider it's an easy task.

Dynamic content is one of the new features in EPiServer CMS R2 and looks like a potential way of adding dynamic content to your XHTML-editors and keep control over the rendering of the markup.

The use of expression builders is a convenient way to bind content data to controls on a template. Let´s say that we want to create an expression used for initializing a web control with the current page´s property values with the expression syntax.

If you are using a strict doctype when developing an EPiServer site which you always should do, then you probably are aware of the validation errors caused by the target attribute on the anchor tag that appears when you are using an EPiServer property if the target is set on the specific page.

Have you ever wanted to provide your customers with an easy way of choosing a directory in the unified file system? I have created a custom property that allows you to do exactly that.

PicLens is a very useful addon for your browser that lets you browse images and other media in a 3D view. I have created a simple example on how you can enable PicLens on your EPiServer site running ImageVault.

A simple explanation on how to get EPiServer to search inside uploaded files using the indexing service.