Eric Sanner – Solutions Architect

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

VS Live Share lets you collaborate in real time for coding, debugging and more. You can have multiple people working in the same file and see their cursor and live code updates. You can also open your own file and work independently. All changes are saved back to the hosts file system ready to be […]

Learning to SPEAK was lead by Julia Gavrilova and Olga Kogen from XCentium.  They gave a little history of SPEAK and demoed a couple apps they have written.  I’ve got some ideas for apps to build in Sitecore, and now I’m ready to get started! What is SPEAK Sitecore Process Enablement & Accelerator Kit Toolkit […]

Paige ONeill, Sitecore’s Chief Marketing Officer, led the first Women in Tech panel discussion. This panel, featuring 18 female Sitecore MVPs including Perficient Digital’s own Wendy Derstine, was an insightful, inspirational, and thought provoking discussion. #MovetheDial The #MovetheDial movement was started to help close the gender gap in technological industries. Its goal is to encourage and […]

Alex Shyba from Altola.com showed us how to go from design to deployed with JSS and React. Design Component based design systems Material UI Bootstrap Bring functional and visual consistency to your designs Need a single source of truth React is agnostic to rendering target React integrates with Sketch FramerX Drag and drop React UI […]

Adam Weber and Kam Figy of Sitecore showed us how to use JSS in powerful ways including progressive web apps.  PWAs work like a native mobile app and have support for offline mode. Headless What is headless? A fancy way to use a CMS as a content api Advantages Decouple content delivery from presentation Multi-channel […]

Beyond the SXA Toolbox session was lead by Adam Najmanowicz and Mark van Aalst of Sitecore.  They gave an overview of SXA (Sitecore Experience Accelerator) and what is new in version 1.8. What is SXA A framework focusing on digital platform Mobile first Flexible renderings Layout elasticity Responsive web Grid based layout Multi-tenant / Multi-site […]

This session was lead by Jean-Francois L’Heureux from Coveo.  He showed how to apply the helix guidelines for Sitecore development to a JSS solution. Helix Helix is a set of guidelines to help maintain clean architcture in MVC projects It was not designed from javascript Project dependencies Layers Project – Layouts.  Styling.  Presentation. Feature – […]

JSS Marketing Automation was lead by Perficient’s own Corey Smith and Rick Bauer.  The session started with attendees visiting a url to choose their favorite type of music.  They showed an entire JSS application with some basic analytics and goal tracking. Building a JSS app JSS enables rich front end UIs Makes your page feel faster […]

Headless CMS, The Great Uncoupling session was lead by Deane Barker from Blend Interactive.  It provided a look at how we got here and what makes a headless cms important. Software Why does software get bigger? Rational reasons Edge case support – people keep finding and using and edge case Economy of context – some things […]