Everything you need to know about Sitecore to add value to your business.
I recently took part in a project based on the Umbraco CMS. This inspired me to make a comparison of Umbraco and Sitecore. In this article, I will describe these two content management systems, their similarities and differences, and will bring your attention to Umbraco’s qualities that I really liked and that Sitecore lacks. I hope it will help you figure out which solution suits your business better.
On March 5, the SaM Solutions team represented by Vadzim Papko, Vitali Taleika and me, Vadim Birkos, took part in the annual online event Sitecore Hackathon.
In this article, I’ll talk about our experience of participating in this event and the technical result we managed to achieve.
If you have a custom SOLR index in your Sitecore-based project and it becomes too big (more than 1 million documents), you may face a problem when the rebuild process times out because of the SOLR connection timeout exception. Today, I’ll tell you how we dealt with this issue.
The look and feel of your Sitecore-based solution largely depends on SXA themes — sets of assets, such as images, scripts, fonts and style sheets enabled by CSS and JavaScript. They aren’t closely tied to the content and functionality of the solution, and can be created separately from them. To provide the integrity and modularity of a Sitecore-based solution and compile the styling of a number of projects, we rely on Gulp, a JavaScript-based manager that automates frequently performed tasks. With this tool, we can compile scattered stylesheets from different projects in a single CSS file, and place them right where they belong. Read on to learn how styling in Sitecore 9 works in practice.
Considering the benefits that Sitecore Helix provides to a Sitecore implementation, such as future-proof architecture that is easy to maintain and extend, I strongly recommend transferring pre-Helix projects to Helix. You’ll probably ask, what does a process of transforming pre-Helix app into one that’s Helix-based include? Read on to learn!
Today, there’s a wide variety of principles that software developers use extensively, such as OOD, SOLID, design patterns and others. Although they are all suited for development on Sitecore, this powerful platform has specific requirements, and Helix is at its heart. What is it? Let’s figure it out.
In this blog post, I will tell you how we built a custom Sitecore JSS Snippet component in a project based on Sitecore 9.2 SXA + JSS and explain how it helped solve a client’s requirement.
All members of the Sitecore community must have heard by now of the Sitecore 10 release announced in August 2020.
In this article, I’ll discuss the most prominent improvements and new official features that come with this release and explain the benefits these bring to developers, marketing specialists and customers.
In this blog post, I will describe an issue we had in a project that was based on Sitecore 9.2 SXA + JSS, and explain how we solved the problem.
What is Sitecore? Sitecore Experience Cloud is an all-in-one digital experience platform that brings together unparalleled content management, marketing automation and e-Commerce.
Named a Leader by Gartner in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms, Sitecore has always stood out from the competition. What is so remarkable about it? Let’s figure it out!
I’m a Umbraco developer and had once done with Sitecore (quite the opposite). And you know, I have the same…