Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore’

I read a blog post written by Sam Wright titled “Designing The Words: Why Copy Is A Design Issue”. The article touches upon the importance of content and the need for content to be included in the overall design process. Much of the post talks about the importance of writing and copy. What really caught […]

Perficient’s Sitecore team recently worked with Lamar Advertising to transform Lamar’s web presence resulting in increased customer awareness, allowing Lamar to address customer needs on both a local and national level. In addition, Lamar has experienced increased conversions, has the ability to reach, engage and educate potential customers about out-of-home advertising, and has reduced time-to-market […]

I recently blogged on interesting avenues in which you can use Windows Azure to more easily move software that was originally on-premise to the cloud.  No sooner do I finish that than I read an article from @sharepointrich on SharePoint vs Sitecore.  In his post, Rich mentioned that Sitecore Azure runs on Windows Azure.  That […]

In my most recent article at CMSWire, I had the opportunity to make some wild and crazy predictions for the future of Microsoft’s SharePoint platform.  While not claiming access to any crystal ball or inside information, I did make every attempt to ground my possibilities in the realm of actual, factual reality.  One of those predictions […]

I am currently working to take a client’s existing Sitecore instance and internationalize their commerce functions. The current Sitecore multi-site instance shares a common codebase and the Web Forms For Marketers (WFFM) module installation. To adhere to legal requirements, visitors to the site must agree to the client’s terms and privacy policy when downloading content through […]

Over on Perficient’s Microsoft blog is a good post on pushing lead and other data to Salesforce.  Conversely, you can run campaigns and offerings from Salesforce into the digital experience on your Sitecore driven site.   Parshiva Vora goes into a little detail and points to further instructions.  So if these two technologies are relevant […]

Gone are days when going online for an enterprise was considered a proud moment and the only purpose its public facing website served was an instant ‘brochure’ for visitors about its products and offerings. Nowadays visitors can not only browse the information but also can purchase directly on the website or show an interest into […]

Gartner released it’s latest Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM) at the end of July, and once again Sitecore is in the leaders grouping of the software providers that were evaluated.  This marks the 4th year in a row that Sitecore has achieved such an honor!  Gartner describes the software in the Leader classification […]

In Sitecore, the MVC framework provides a “default” model type that does some very necessary work. To support the view, Sitecore’s default model type Sitecore.Mvc.Presentation.RenderingModel provides you access to The “current” item – passed via a datasource or the context item if no datasource is used The PageContext item (which may be different if a […]

I recently got to see the first Responsive Designed-Sitecore powered site I have ever worked on go live.  If you’re not familiar with Responsive Design…well, where have you been?  Seriously though, Responsive Design is a pretty big buzzword in not just the tech industry but in any business that wants to be relevant in today’s […]

Sitecore’s MVC support is (as of Sitecore 6.6 update 5) based on the MVC3 implementation by Microsoft. One really nice feature of Microsoft’s MVC4 implementation is the concept of bundling. Bundling allows a developer to aggregate a collection of either CSS files or Javascript files into a single “item” that can be easily manipulated and […]

One of the things that I have been caught complaining about from time to time with the way Sitecore handles assignment of data source in presentation details is that the data source is stored as a string path, making it necessary to update every instance of presentation details that references an item when it is […]