Posts Tagged ‘CMS’

One of the great things about working for Perficient is being surrounded by a great deal of very experienced, knowledgeable and motivated technologists – many of whom are working in a completely different technology than I am working.  Another reason is that a good deal of these co-workers are not only willing to be open […]

I recently got to play around with the Sitecore Calendar Module for the first time and thought I’d share my thoughts about it here.  My first impression was pretty good, as there was clear documentation about what the module offered and I was happy to see that it specifically had the view that I was […]

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I introduced many of the technologies used to build a social intranet.  In part 3, I talked about three scenarios and list some of the technology that would be involved in each social intranet.  For this last part of the series, I want to talk about what some of […]

I’ve been seeing a lot of interest in the concept of a Social Intranet lately.  The intranet is your company’s internal content network.  In many cases, it is nothing more than a series of links to other systems.  In more sophisticated intranets, companies publish corporate news and announcements, departments have their own pages to share […]

I’ve seen a lot of bad CMSs. Systems that take multiple steps and six different screens to publish and categorize a page. In-page editing that looks completely different once it’s published. And my favorite was a previous client (I led a project redesigning the intranet for a state’s judiciary department) who had an employee that […]

As we approach the new year, it’s time for a budget reset for many companies.  Those companies who already have or are about to purchase Sitecore may have put money aside in their budget to train their employees on Sitecore.  We get a lot of questions from our clients about what Sitecore classes to attend, […]

As we approach the new year, it’s time for a budget reset for many companies.  Those companies who already have or are about to purchase Sitecore may have put money aside in their budget to train their employees on Sitecore.  We get a lot of questions from our clients about what Sitecore classes to attend, […]

John West has been writing a few posts on Sitecore Idiosyncrasies over on the Sitecore site lately, and I have to highlight them and recommend them to all Sitecore developers.  I have a number of coworkers with expansive CMS experience in systems other than Sitecore, and often times a large challenge to learning Sitecore is […]

Sitecore’s Digital Marketing Suite (DMS) is obviously a huge game-breaker in the WCM market.  Here’s a tool that is seamlessly integrated into your CMS and allows you to track advanced usage analytics, do multivariate testing on your website, and personalize content on your site so that it is the most effective it can be and your site visitors get the […]

A client of mine recently had a situation that we decided was best handled by uploading an XML file into a Sitecore item for their Sitecore 6.6 site.  Due to some business rules, we decided that we didn’t want the upload to be stored directly in the media library, but instead in a data template […]

I recently installed the Item Buckets packages to my Sitecore 6.6 installation so that I could play around with it and determine if it could be used for a particular business need of one of my clients.  After having seen Tim Ward’s presentation at Sitecore Symposium on Item Buckets, I have to say I was looking […]

We all face challenges (both planned an unplanned) on our projects. In a recent post, I discussed 5 Things Project Managers Can Learn From Their First WCM Project. This post is the first in a 5-part series where we will discuss those in more detail. The first one is working with Creative Types. On most […]