Often times when building content models inside of a CMS, it’s important to consider the various types of editors and the permissions they may have within the eco-system. One technique that I find highly effective is to limit the amount of fields a user may see based on their CMS role. Removing non-essential fields from […]
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Keep your environments in sync with Episerver DXP!
While iterating on projects it’s always a good idea to keep your lower environments in sync with the latest content and imagery from your production environment. In some platforms this is a significant effort, but with Episerver DXP it can be easily automated! Eric Markson from Perficient recently blogged about how to automate the orchestration […]
Defer offscreen images in Episerver
Lazy loading images is a technique for modern web developers where you instruct the client’s browser to only download images as they are needed. This leads to tremendous performance improvements, as client devices do not waste bandwidth downloading assets which are not being rendered. To achieve this, we’ll use some client side mechanisms from css-tricks.com […]
Episerver and Alternate Text for Images in the TinyMCE Rich Text Editor
Last week I received a nasty bug report regarding Accessibility and Episerver. Within Rich Text areas in Episerver, the file name is injected by default for alternate text. This hurts your accessibility score and is a detrimental impact to visually impaired users. Coincidentally, others in the community have written about and questioned how to solve […]
The Importance of Implementing a Live Chat Tool for Episerver Commerce Cloud Sites
Amid COVID-19, we are purchasing almost all of our products online, meaning more and more customers are going online each day to find the products they need, which can become a struggle with the lack of in-person assistance. Digital tools, however, can play an important role for businesses and consumers during their online shopping experience, […]
Top 3 Reasons Why Episerver’s React-Based Front-End CMS Is Really, Really Cool.
2020 has offered us some big surprises that I don’t think any of us could have predicted. The most obvious one I won’t waste breath mentioning, but the other surprise that came up near the end of 2019 as we looked to kick off a new decade was Episerver’s acquisition of Insite. With this acquisition, […]
Episerver – Handling an SVG image type and displaying it using a Path tag
Recently, I came across a requirement from a client that needed all SVG media types to render using the internal XML <Path> in the DOM, rather than using the standard <Img> tag. This was a tricky one and there wasn’t very much information about how to accomplish this, as its not necessarily a common request. […]
[Analyst Study] Delivering Customer-Centric Experiences for Digital Commerce
Having a digital experience platform (DXP) that’s just “good enough” doesn’t cut it anymore. Whether you’re responding to shifts in the economy, society, or just customer preference, being able to deliver a robust omnichannel commerce experience is now the cost of doing business. Perficient and Episerver partnered with IDC, a leading industry research organization to […]
Episerver DXP Environment Deployment API PowerShell Scripts – Part 3
In my previous posts, we went over the deployment process in the EpiServer DXP environment. The first post went through the original methods that allow for deployment into the DXP environment. The second post went through update 313, which was a massive deployment API update, as well as how to use the API to export an environmental database, […]
Episerver DXP Environment Deployment API PowerShell Scripts – Part 2
In my last-post, we went over the deployment process in the EpiServer DXP environment. I mentioned that the next post would be related to using this within Azure DevOps, but I need to make a slight adjustment based on today’s update. As of April 27th, 2020, EpiServer released their weekly update #313, which included a lot […]
Episerver DXP Environment Deployment API PowerShell Scripts – Part 1
In late-2019, Episerver released one of their Beta programs, which would allow developers the ability to control a DXP environment deployment via an API. This Powershell module is called “EpiCloud”. There have been a few blog posts on how to use these APIs in one-off instances, but none in how to make these into reusable […]
Perficient Recognized with Episerver B2B Commerce Specialization
When Episerver acquired Insite late last year, it rounded out the digital experience platform with a robust B2B commerce offering. As a partner of both Episerver and Insite, Perficient is positioned as an Episerver Gold Partner. Before the acquisition, Perficient was a leader and tenured Insite partner. Because of this and our 24 certified Insite […]