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As the volume of digital commerce increases, it becomes more and more critical to create and deliver excellent digital customer experiences. Consumers are changing the way they shop, which forces businesses to evaluate their digital storefronts. Cyber Monday recently brought record-breaking online sales totaling $6.59 billion, highlighting consumers’ shifting habits. Gone are the days when […]

Many factors play into a successful Sitecore implementation, but having a high quality content authoring experience is one that stands out. Because content authoring is such a fundamental, day-to-day task in Sitecore, it is crucial that the authoring and editing experience is consistently great. I’ve written before about how to improve the Sitecore editing experience, […]

Want To Learn More? Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! Thank you for following us along on this journey! We hope that you found this series helpful in starting your Sitecore journey. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part […]

Troubleshooting Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this last part, we’ll look at some common problems you may encounter while installing and setting up Sitecore 8.x. 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 bootcamp. Problem: Cannot […]

Experience Editor Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part, we’ll extend our custom Sitecore 8.x content module we built in part 4 to use the Experience Editor allowing inline content editing. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other […]

Building Your First Module Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part we’ll build our first custom Sitecore 8.x content module. 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 bootcamp. Download the Sitecore Bootcamp For Developers Part […]

This session was led by Pieter Brinkman and Hylke Heidstra from Sitecore. They showed some of the new features in the new Sitecore Forms for Sitecore 9. This session was in a very large room and was standing room only! Lots of people wanted to know more about this new module. Here are my notes […]

Setting Up Your Development Environment Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part we’ll setup your local development environment to be ready to develop custom code for Sitecore 8.x. 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 […]

I’ve been perusing all of the super helpful blog posts around getting Sitecore 9 up and running locally.   I started with Toby’s blog post on the prerequisites here followed by George’s installation post here. I did however run into a couple more gotchas that I hadn’t seen listed and couldn’t come up with a solution for by searching […]

Installing Sitecore Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part we’ll walk through installing Sitecore 8.x and setting up IIS to view a Sitecore website on your local machine. 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 […]

Introduction to Sitecore Welcome back to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers! In this part and the accompanying video, we’ll do a brief introduction to Sitecore 8.x including some of the main features and terminology. We’ll use the Habitat demo site provided by Sitecore. You’ll see how to navigate the Sitecore UI and quickly jump into many […]

Welcome to Sitecore Bootcamp for Developers. This series is geared towards developers that are new to Sitecore, but have some experience with content management tools, .NET Programming (C# and .NET MVC), Visual Studio, and IIS. This series focuses on Sitecore MVC (which is not exactly the same as .NET MVC) and Sitecore version 8.X. Part […]