Responsive Web Design (RWD) offers a cost effective, high quality and easily managed delivery of content to a variety of devices. Many teams build sites in RWD by using custom or popular responsive frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap or Foundation Zurb. But how can we combine the responsive design goodness with an intuitive content authoring experience […]
Content Authoring
Sitecore Personalization with Snippets – Part 3, Embedded Macro Personalization
In part 1 of this series, we discussed how personalization rules can be embedded within Snippets, and where ever those Snippets are added to pages, those personalization rules will execute. This is handy when you are personalizing pieces of global elements such content that appears within main navigation or footers. In part 2, we introduced […]
Sitecore Personalization with Snippets – Part 2, Macro Personalization
In part 1 of this series, we discussed how personalization in Sitecore can be embedded within a Snippet to create personalization rules that are used within global (or reusable) elements like headers or footers. In part 2, we will now discuss how Snippets create a whole new type of personalization in Sitecore – macro personalization. This […]
Sitecore Personalization with Snippets – Part 1, Embedded Personalization
What is a Snippet? Snippets provide some much needed functionality within the Sitecore CMS. If you’re not familiar with Snippets, they allow content editors to design and create “reusable page fragments” (or in atomic design terminology organisms) that can be used and reused within pages of your Sitecore site.
Hello World – SCORE 3.0(TM) is here!
BrainJocks has just released the latest and greatest version of our Sitecore accelerator – BrainJocks SCORE(TM) 3.0.
We built a website in a day – Pt. 2: Assembly Process
Queue Thursday morning and it’s time to get started. We know we’re building the foundations of a new website, and we want to start it off correctly. To do this, we’re going to follow what we call the ‘Assembly Process’. Assembly Process If you’ve worked with Cesia or myself in the past, you’ve probably seen […]
We built a website in a day – Pt. 1
We recently built a website that meets the minimum viable product for a customer in under 24 working hours. An Enterprise Accelerator is the key, the secret sauce. This particular accelerator is built upon SCORE, but these principles can be applied to any CMS accelerator platform.
Using Sitecore PowerShell to generate a report on last updates to your content
Recently I had to build a report in Sitecore to show the latest updates done on the content tree of a Sitecore instance and had to determine which users made those changes. One of the other important things on this report was the ability to have content authors generate the report from the Content Editor. If you ever need to perform such actions, the Sitecore Powershell Extensions (SPE) module is probably your best bet.
How To Find Items That Don’t Have Any Language Versions Using Powershell
Traditional Powershell commands require a -Language param to retrieve specific item versions. Locating items with out a specified language is a challenge. Here is a great work around.
Uh-oh, the Sitecore Sheer UI dialog is jacking up my Rich Text Editor. Now what?
Use these 4 simple steps and you will no longer lose your content or field values in the Rich Text Editor when using a Sheer UI dialog.
Creating an Experience Editor Ribbon button for SCORE pages
Recently on a few of my projects, we’ve been discussing how to further enhance the content authoring experience for users.
Experience Editor error strikes again!
“After parsing a value an unexpected character was encountered: {. Path ‘scLayout’…