Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore’

When dealing with live websites, it is desired to have lower environments that mirror production as closely as possible. Why? Because this improves your quality assurance and user acceptance processes on pretty much anything that you build, change or configure in the site. With a similar environment it’s easier to find things that will not […]

If you have an already existing Sitecore solution that you are planning on moving to the Azure cloud you need to understand the Blob service concepts firsts. Azure Blob storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud.Blob storage exposes three resources: your storage account the containers in the account and the blobs in a […]

The Sitecore Item ID is one of those properties that I have always been told that you can’t change. They were basically right because if you look at Sitecore.Data.Items.Item in the Sitecore.Kernel dll using dotPeek you will see that for the ID there is a get but no set property. It looks like this below […]

When building Sitecore implementations one thing you must always think of is: What is the cache strategy and how it will be implemented? For example will html cache be set in standard values of templates? What is the size of database cache? What about prefetch cache? Here at Perficient we always take these questions into […]

Welcome back to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. In this part of the series, we’ll look at how to restrict access to content authors by language. If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part of the guide. By default content authors have […]

Welcome back to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. In this part of the series, we’ll look at how to edit content in multiple languages.  If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part of the guide. Using the content editor, click the language drop down […]

Welcome back to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. In this part of the series, we’ll walk through setting up Sitecore to enable multiple languages.  If you are just joining us, please go back and read the introduction where you’ll also find links to each other part of the guide. Sitecore has the native capability to present content in […]

Welcome to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. I had the opportunity to help one of our clients add mulitlanguage capabilities to their Sitecore website. I had a hard time finding a simple guide that walked me through the process, so I documented my journey and am sharing here. Sitecore has the native capability to present content […]

We are all about data-driven marketing and actionable insights from data, but when you collect data in multiple places, things can get sticky. Let’s see how to best use data from these systems.

Triggering personalization scenarios using multiple goals as the trigger can be a hassle. Using the Sitecore Rules Engine helps streamline the implementation of personalization across your site.

Customer loyalty can be a huge factor in revenue growth. Driving loyalty through the commerce experience can lead to an additional 18% spend.

The Sitecore installation scripts error out before completion – what now? In this post I will walk you through what needs to be done before re-running the scripts. You need to go through and delete the bits that were installed up until the point of failure. If you don’t clean out these bits, you may […]