Posts Tagged ‘wcm’

John West has been writing a few posts on Sitecore Idiosyncrasies over on the Sitecore site lately, and I have to highlight them and recommend them to all Sitecore developers.  I have a number of coworkers with expansive CMS experience in systems other than Sitecore, and often times a large challenge to learning Sitecore is […]

Sitecore’s Digital Marketing Suite (DMS) is obviously a huge game-breaker in the WCM market.  Here’s a tool that is seamlessly integrated into your CMS and allows you to track advanced usage analytics, do multivariate testing on your website, and personalize content on your site so that it is the most effective it can be and your site visitors get the […]

A client of mine recently had a situation that we decided was best handled by uploading an XML file into a Sitecore item for their Sitecore 6.6 site.  Due to some business rules, we decided that we didn’t want the upload to be stored directly in the media library, but instead in a data template […]

I recently installed the Item Buckets packages to my Sitecore 6.6 installation so that I could play around with it and determine if it could be used for a particular business need of one of my clients.  After having seen Tim Ward’s presentation at Sitecore Symposium on Item Buckets, I have to say I was looking […]

We all face challenges (both planned an unplanned) on our projects. In a recent post, I discussed 5 Things Project Managers Can Learn From Their First WCM Project. This post is the first in a 5-part series where we will discuss those in more detail. The first one is working with Creative Types. On most […]

With Thanksgiving just a day away, it’s hard for me not to reflect upon all that I’m personally thankful for in my life.  I’m most thankful for my awesome Son who just turned 1 last weekend, and my beautiful wife who is making a superb mother.  I’m thankful that we all have our health, and […]

With Thanksgiving just a day away, it’s hard for me not to reflect upon all that I’m personally thankful for in my life.  I’m most thankful for my awesome Son who just turned 1 last weekend, and my beautiful wife who is making a superb mother.  I’m thankful that we all have our health, and […]

One of my clients recently had a somewhat unusual requirement when working with Sitecore.  Due to some business rules, they are forced to input their Production content into Sitecore at their Development Environment and push it from Development all the way up to Production.  Their Sitecore website has links to other of their in-house systems […]

I’ve been thinking about some great project managers I’ve met over the years and what works for portal projects. In some ways, it could be said a good project manager should be a jack of all trades, master of none. The theory is that a person who masters both the art and science of project […]

Now that Sitecore Symposium is a week in the rear-view mirror, and I have power back from Sandy destroying the East Coast, I thought it’s time to get a post out about my experience at Symposium this year.  So here goes… First, I was quite happy with the venue change.  I’m not really big on […]

A client recently had a need for using multiple instances of a single sub-layout that had Sitecore placeholders on it.  They discovered that when they tried implementing this, they ended up with duplicate / replicated data in each placeholder of the sub-layout that was used multiple times.  Searching for an answer, we came across this […]

Sometimes when introducing prospective clients to the awesome software that is Sitecore, we face a little bit of a pushback from the IT groups.  This is because a lot of those IT groups include developers who have been working very hard at creating custom applications to suit their companies.  As a developer who spent 5 […]