Posts Tagged ‘CMS’

In a time where technology is constantly evolving, it can seem that personal connection is becoming more difficult to achieve, especially between company and customer. Consumers are more connected than ever, and as a result, more aware of where they take their business. They’re not only looking at the value of the service they’re receiving, but […]

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist…I am a person who does those things.” —Edward Gorey Being greeted with your name and recommendations for products and services is common for return website visits, but personalization is evolving rapidly. And rightly […]

Choosing the right CMS and technology partner can help you plan for the challenges of growing your business. Being prepared for the evolution of your customer’s expectations can give your company a sustainable competitive advantage.

Building a CMS implementation, teams focus on numerous deliverables – building the user journeys, crafting a beautiful and engaging design and user experience, building and testing editable pages and components, writing the perfect content to tell our story…then we launch – and we’re done, right? Well, no.  At Brainjocks, now Perficient, we’ve built our legacy […]

They say the only constant is change and for the most part change is a good thing. However, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with change. I embrace the fact that it forces and challenges me to adapt which allows personal and professional growth, but I hate the disruption it causes to my […]

Before we get started, I recommend reading about the revealing module pattern and closure, if you’re not already familiar with them. When you are building components for use in a CMS, it’s important to understand that you have less control over the use of these components than you may initially think. Programming these blocks in such […]

Modular component styles are becoming significantly important in modern UI trends. Handling scalability while decreasing naming convention differences is a necessary step towards code cohesion. Disclaimer: I use a slightly modified flavor of BEM syntax, feel free to use traditional BEM, or some other flavor of your own. When developing UI components, specifically for use […]

IBM Watson Content Hub (WCH) is a cloud-based content management system (CMS) which allows you to manage and publish full website experiences or deliver headless content to your web and mobile experiences.  The initial product was launched in December, 2016 and in less than a year has positioned itself as a leading cloud based CMS.  […]

Everybody knows that businesses run on the 3 C’s: Contact Relationship Management, Content Management Systems, and Commerce; however, most would argue that this is a pyramid where CRM represents your customers, they access the website, and they purchase products: Successful businesses see this as a triangle, with CRM representing all your contacts, CMS representing all […]

What happened? One of the best assists for a CMS is now unavailable for Umbraco, and just before we got the GridEditor, so now everything is more complicated! There is an answer, pick up all those dreams of pretty grids and components and take a look at factories. Factories take the place of GlassMapper and […]

For people who write, edit, update or otherwise create and maintain web content, moving to a new enterprise CMS can be a pretty exciting process.  I’ve never met a content author or publisher who didn’t want at least a little something more from their authoring interface.  Typical questions and comments include: “Can we make it […]

IBM launched their new content management service, IBM Watson Content Hub, on 11/14/2016.  This new offering provides a full cloud based content as a service offering delivering headless CMS solution.  The new product has many advantages including: Easy to use content authoring interface allowing business to easily create multi-channel content. Full cloud based solution so […]