Sitecore Tabbed Select a Rendering Dialog

08th May 2012 Kacper Chomicz

This post concerns Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 111230). As part of Cognifide’s new product offering – CaaS – Campaign as a Service we – the .NET team are busy preparing a set of Sitecore components that will allow for quick, cost effective creation of web pages. The idea is to have a set of predefined components [...]

Sitecore Go: Mobile Workflow Management using PhoneGap

08th Mar 2012 Kacper Chomicz

Have you ever had trouble publishing content on a website through a Content Management System(CMS)?  Ideally you shouldn’t have but we understand that sometimes, a new webpage can have a really long way to go before its published. An example of a long workflow could be like this: 1. Content Submitted -> 2. Sanity check [...]

Sitecore Best Practice #10 – Speak English, please

29th Aug 2011 Adam Najmanowicz

This best practice reminds developers to design the system in a way that once it’s handed to the client, authors are presented with more intuitive interfaces. It reiterates the need for content planning, reasonable defaults and placing the meta-structures in a manner that make sense for marketing executives who are generally not developers. What is [...]

Sitecore Best Practice #9 – Spaces are for people, dashes are for browsers

26th Aug 2011 Adam Najmanowicz

This Best Practice describes how to maintain an elegant, consistent and system-enforced URL strategy for pages in Sitecore, with implementation guidelines. One of the best features a modern CMS provides is the ability to maintain a clean and consistent URL strategy. While Sitecore gives you (the developer) the possibility – by default it does not [...]

The experience alphabet: AX comes before UX

28th Mar 2011 Rick Yagodich

User experience (UX) is a cornerstone of business. It is a term bandied about with impunity within the web arena, but must apply to all touch points between the organisation and the customer. If we fail to pay attention to how our customers interact with us – if we fail to make the relationship enjoyable [...]