Posts Tagged ‘CMS’

If you’ve used or implemented any type of software at a moderate degree, it’s very likely you’ve had to deal with official support for at least a little bit.  I recently had to contact the support team for Sitecore, and I’ve written a blog post detailing my experience.  The post is on Sitecore.net under the […]

Adobe CQ5 Web Content Management skills are in high demand. The jump from CQ4 to CQ5 brought a considerable improvement in the product, wrapped with an elitist bow – aiming to enchant not only techie geeks, but marketers as well. Since then, Day overhauled its upper management echelons, kept up an aggressive research and product […]

Lately the topic of gamification has been getting a lot of press.  Even here on the Perficient blogs, we’ve had some great gamification posts and white papers, covering a full spectrum from specific technology platforms (IBM Connections), entire solutions (Intranet) to the broad industries (Healthcare).  As an avid gamer, I love that something I have […]

Yesterday I pre-ordered my copy of Professional Sitecore Development, a book being written by John West, and releasing on May 22, 2012.  I have to say, I couldn’t be more excited to receive it in the mail.  As an experienced .NET and Sitecore developer, I can safely say – you never know everything, and probably […]

A quick tip post here, as I go about looking through some of my older posts from my personal blog. Standard Values are an awesome thing for Sitecore architects.  Most likely, anyone who’s developed a Sitecore site has set “$name” as a default Standard Value to at least one field of his templates.  The proper […]

My colleague Candace recently wrote a guest post on Workflow Security in Sitecore, where she referenced the common desire of a Content Manager to have intelligent, context-specific emails generated around Sitecore Workflows.  Here’s her follow up on how to produce such emails. Sitecore provides email functionality out of the box with its workflows.  It’s really […]

As time progresses, the data being stored on any database application will continue to grow and grow.  This will inevitably lead to reduced performance, and most likely some garbage data will be taking up space.  Ultimately, the DB may even become unwieldy and unmanageable.  Now, this probably won’t happen overnight, and may not even happen […]

It’s a safe assumption to say that any organization looking to revamp its website is going to have some level of hesitancy in adopting a new technology platform to run that website.  Even though Sitecore is seen as both a leader and a visionary in the Web Content Management (WCM) sector per the November 2011 […]

If you’ve ever worked with large amounts of data within Sitecore, chances are you’ve worked with Lucene Indexes (or the newly branded Sitecore.Search namespace and indexes).  If you haven’t worked with these, it’s worth the time (and initial frustration) to learn about them, as they really do improve performance when querying the Sitecore content tree.  […]

The following is a guest post written by Candace, a colleague of mine who is also a part of the Perficient Sitecore Competency Center. Initially, I found setting up a workflow in Sitecore confusing and frustrating.  I hope this article helps you avoid some of that frustration.  Chapter 3 of the Workflow Reference is fairly clear […]

Whenever we work with a client on a Sitecore implementation, it is inevitable that at some point in the process, the question of scheduling future publishes will come up.  The question is usually phrased something like “Does Sitecore allow me to schedule an item to be published in the future?”  Every time it comes up, […]

Sitecore just released a new white paper, Content Management: The (New) Governance Manifesto, which they wrote in conjunction with ISITE Design and non-linear creations.  If you’re considering adopting a CMS technology, or have already begun down the path of implementing a CMS, I would highly recommend this white paper.  It’s not written to be focused […]