How to create a minimal CMS in .Net - Part 1

March 1, 2024 - Kjell-Åke Gafvelin

I have been using Hugo for building landing pages for my projects and it has been doing a great job. But every time I build a new site I have used a new theme and have to create a new layout in Hugo for it, and I haven’t really become friends with the templating language in Hugo. So I have been thinking that I should create the sites in Asp.Net instead as this is a platform I know very well.

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How to improve conversion for Saber Feedback

January 8, 2021 - Kjell-Åke Gafvelin

When listening to the episode #164: A Saber Feedback update 9 months after acquisition of Steve McLeod’s podcast bootstrapped.fm I was thinking that I might actually have some ideas that could increase customer conversion ratio. So I deciced to be bold and document my suggestions in a blog post rather than just submit it in a forum. I do give feedback sometimes in forums and on Twitter, but this time it felt right to do it this way.

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WiX Service Account Dialog

May 30, 2008 - Kjell-Åke Gafvelin

In my current project we had a need to be able to enter the service account details during setup for the service which is hosting our WCF services. I couldn’t find a dialog that does this using WiX so I created my own. In my setup project I used the WIXUI_FeatureTree template as a base. To “hook in” the new dialog you will have to override the template because if you just add new Publish elements they will not override the existing elements.

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