What are Icons? Icons are graphical representations of different elements on a website. They make the webpages visually appealing and like any other image, have a stronger connection and retention to the end user’s memory than plain text. When used in moderation and the right way, they can be self-explanatory and reduce the need for […]
Posts Tagged ‘CMS’
Creating Dropdown Lists in Optimizely CMS 12 with Enum and Database
This blog will help to create single or multiple list options in CMS 12. Dropdown lists play an important role whenever we give the user to select a single value from the list. In CMS 12, single or multiple selection lists populate using “SelectOne” and “SelectMany” attributes. This attribute is in the “EPiServer.Shell.ObjectEditing” namespace. You […]
Creating new sites in Optimizely CMS 12
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…” This is the first in a series of articles describing my experiences with migrating client sites from CMS 11 to CMS 12. Many things have changed, added, and improved, but some things I encountered did not always have an easy answer. Optimizely has a […]
John Dymond is an Optimizely MVP
Perficient colleagues within our award-winning Optimizely team bring years of experience and vast knowledge to the practice and our clients. We’re proud to announce that recently two of our colleagues have been named 2023 Optimizely MVPs. Below is a deeper look into John Dymond’s past four years at Perficient and his role as a director […]
Optimizely CMS – Customize your Bulk Upload Confirmation
When you upload a media file to a specific location, if the file is already existed, you will be noticed by a warning: You can either choose “Skip this File” to ignore the replacement, or hit “Replace File” to replace the old existing file. The issue Assuming that you have to replace 2 existing images, […]
Making Sense of Sitecore’s Content Management System Offerings
When Sitecore announced their Cloud Offerings at Sitecore Symposium in October 2022, It crystalized their composable strategy in providing separate product offerings that were each best of breed but could be better together. When you look at Engagement Cloud and Commerce Cloud, with products that have clear capabilities with little cross over, that strategy is […]
Optimizely CMS 12 – Unique upgrade challenges
By now, a lot of us have already participated in one or more Optimizely CMS 12 upgrade projects. The others are still evaluating whether they should do it now or wait some more. Regardless of when you do it, there will definitely be some unique upgrade challenges you will come across, as I and many […]
Headful or Headless AEM? Why not both with Hybrid? – Part 2
Previously I presented a common situation where an engineering team might push for Headless AEM and covered why, in my opinion, a Hybrid solution is a better approach. I discussed how Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, and Sling Model Exporters are used in combination to deliver the Headless side of the AEM experience. In case you […]
Headful or Headless AEM? Why Not Both with Hybrid?
It’s not uncommon when facing a new problem, to fall back on a tried-and-true solution. Then, suddenly remember why the team moved off of that solution in the first place. Recently, I’ve seen this trend with engineering teams and a desire for multichannel content. A Common Case for Headless Content on AEM Let’s set the […]
Content Hub ONE Full Review in Action – Feedback and Afterthoughts (part 3 / 3)
Content Hub ONE developers did a great job in such a short time. However, from my point of view, there are a few issues that make it hard to use this platform in its current stage for commercial usage. Let’s take a look at them. Content Part 1: Mastering Content Part 2: Developing Client App […]
Content Hub ONE Full Review in Action – Developing Client App (part 2 / 3)
In the previous post, I crafted two content types and created records for home pages and each specific whisky item from my collection, populating them with actual data. Now let’s create a client “head” app to consume and display that content from Content Hub ONE tenant. Content Part 1: Mastering Content Part 2: Developing Client […]
Content Hub ONE Full Review in Action – Mastering Content (part 1 / 3)
Most of my readers know me as a dedicated Sitecore professional, however, close friends are aware of the variety of my hobbies. Some of them also know me as a Scotch whisky expert and collector. After living in the UK for almost 15 years, I got a pretty decent collection of these spirits and learned […]