The official day one of Sitecore Symposium 2019 was full of information. At the end of the day, Sitecore announced the ultimate experience award winners for the Americas region, while CEO Mark Frost gave a few additional thoughts on customer experience. Sitecore CMO Paige O’Neil announced the Ultimate Experience Awards 2019 – Americas, Subway and […]
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Sitecore Symposium 2019: Managing Technical Debt While Implementing Helix Principles
This session provided a basic look at technical debt – what it is and where it comes from. It also offered some suggestions on working with legacy code and Helix together. Here are my key takeaways: What is technical debt? A measure of how untidy your code is Any time when you look at your […]
Sitecore Symposium 2019: Punch it Chewie
This session was presented by Matthew Dubbs, Sitecore test specialist, and Jason St-Cyr, Sitecore manager, test evangelists. Overall, the session discussed getting more out of your installation and performance testing. Here are my key takeaways: Why performance test? Avoid late night support calls Being down is bad: Amazon was down for 15 minutes in July […]
Sitecore Symposium 2019: Human Connections in a Digital World
The opening keynote brings all the conference attendees into one room and highlights great speakers to get the conference started. This year’s theme is “Human Connections in a Digital World.” Below, I have recapped my key takeaways from each speaker’s presentation. For more session reviews, be sure to follow me. Sitecore CEO Thoughts The CEO […]
Sitecore Symposium 2019: Sessions Review
I am thrilled to once again attend Sitecore Symposium in Orlando, FL. Each year, this event is a chance for my Perficient Digital Sitecore team to gather in one place to learn, grow, collaborate, and share our practice. Like last year, I will be posting session review blogs about those I attend, so follow me […]
Sitecore Symposium 2019: Welcome Reception
Sitecore Symposium is upon us once again. For the second year, it is hosted at the beautiful Disney Swan and Dolphin hotels. Prior to the start of the sessions, Sitecore hosts a welcome reception. It is a nice way to relax from a day of travel or recover from a weekend of visiting local attractions. […]
Planning Sitecore Symposium 2019
Well, it’s that time of year again when people start thinking about Sitecore Symposium: registration is open, the agenda has been posted, and people are planning their trips. I am so happy that I was selected to attend for the third year in a row with Perficient Digital! Now, it’s time for me to start […]
Choose a Sitecore Placeholder Name Instead of Typing V3
Last year, I released my first Sitecore module “Placeholder Dropdown.” It changes the placeholder name input text box into a dropdown when adding a new component to presentation details in the content editor. It helps you remember if your placeholder name was ‘three-left-col’ or ‘three-col-left’ or ‘three-left-column.’ I’m happy to announce version 3 is now […]
Going Multilingual in Sitecore Part 3: How to Restrict Access by Language
Welcome back to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. In this part of the series, we’ll look at how to restrict access to content authors by language. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part of the guide. By default content authors have […]
Going Multilingual in Sitecore Part 2: Editing Content in Multiple Languages
Welcome back to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. In this part of the series, we’ll look at how to edit content in multiple languages. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part of the guide. Using the content editor, click the language drop down […]
Going Multilingual in Sitecore Part 1: Enable Multiple Languages
Welcome back to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. In this part of the series, we’ll walk through setting up Sitecore to enable multiple languages. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part of the guide. Sitecore has the native capability to present content in […]
Going Multilingual in Sitecore
Welcome to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. I had the opportunity to help one of our clients add mulitlanguage capabilities to their Sitecore website. I had a hard time finding a simple guide that walked me through the process, so I documented my journey and am sharing here. Sitecore has the native capability to present content […]