2019

Publicwww - searching for interesting Episerver CMS use patterns

I recently discovered publicwww.com a cool service that lets you search for any text in the html/css/js of all it's 550 million (2019-05-09) indexed web pages, including the cookies sent out and the http header. In this post I put my Episerver goggles on and had some fun with this data.

Information Retrieval Optimizely (Episerver)CMS

May 9 2019

The Curious Case of Content Modelling

Having the right content model (the structure of your content types) is very important in order to end up with good, usable (and reusable) content. I believe that is something that most content management aficionados can agree on. But what is a good content model? And who should be modelling your content? In this blog post I will try to discuss a few opinions on this topic.

CMS Contentful

April 4 2019

Episerver Content Provider Resilience Strategies

Content Providers for Episerver is a powerful tool with huge potential for integrations. But how should you handle fault resilience when dealing with a real time connection to an external system? As part of the integration to Digizuite DAM I have helped build, I have given this a great deal of thought.

Integrations Digizuite Optimizely (Episerver)CMS Addon Development

April 2 2019

Routing in Episerver Addon Modules

When your build your own addons, modules and extensions for Episerver CMS, you often want to include controllers - and naturally you want to call these controller - but which url should you use? I always forget this, so here is a little reminder.

Addon Development Tips and Tricks CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

March 19 2019

Distributed Content: Delivering an Episerver Web Experience with Contentful Content

The move in the market towards headless could also be seen as a tendency towards a deeper decoupling between content and experience delivery. Inspired by a few discussions, I've tried my hands on an uncommon combination: Contentful providing content delivered through an Episerver web experience layer.

Vision Demos & Prototypes Integrations Optimizely (Episerver)Contentful CMS

March 5 2019

Annotate The Web - Collaborate with comments about websites

As a little experiment I just launched a basic annotation service, that let's you put comments on screenshots of a web page in order to collaborate during creation.

CMS Vision Demos & Prototypes .NET Development

February 26 2019

Episerver Advance Recommendations on CodeArt

Some times you have so much great content on your website that you just wish you had a librarian to let your visitors know what to read next. And with Episerver Advance (Content Recommendations) you can at least have something that comes pretty close. I have been lucky enough to try it out on my site.

Optimizely (Episerver)AI CMS

February 4 2019

Sneak Peek - Digizuite DAM for Episerver

In this blog post I'm sharing a little sneak peek of the editor experience working with an enterprise DAM like Digizuite integrated into Episerver. Early February 2019, at the Episerver Partner Close-up in Stockholm, you can visit Digizuite stand to get an in-depth demo.

Digizuite CMS Integrations Optimizely (Episerver)Addon Development

February 2 2019

On Page Edit for Images

The default image edit mode in Episerver CMS is a little bit boring - it's nothing but an image tag with the actual image. Why not offer a richer on page edit experience for image media as you typically get for pages and blocks?

Tips and Tricks CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

January 11 2019

Content Provider or Content Replication

When integrating external content into Episerver, a classic dilemma is whether you should replicate it in, or setup a content provider to pull it in real-time. As part of the Digizuite Integration I have once again given some thought to the dilemma - and here are some pro's and cons.

Optimizely (Episerver)Addon Development Integrations CMS

January 4 2019