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A Long-Time Partnership Across an International Border
A partnership nearly a decade in the making, Blend and CNO have worked closely to provide web solutions both inside and outside.
Understanding Site Search — Part Three: How Will You Organize Results?
When results are displayed in your site search, will they be relevant? In part three our site search series, we talk about organizing and displaying results.
A Glossary of Site Search Terms
Better understand the scope of your site search with this site search glossary.
Understanding Site Search — Part Four: Choosing the Right Solution
How do you choose the right search engine for your site search? In part four of our site search series, we look at making the final decision.
Understanding Site Search — Part One: How Search Works
Before we can make decisions about site search, we need to understand how it works. In part one of our site search series, we look at how search works.
Understanding Site Search — Part Two: What Content Will You Search?
You might want to search it all. Or, you might want to search a small section. In part two of our site search series, we look at how to choose what's indexed in your site search.
Understanding Site Search — Your Guide to Site Search Functionality
Site search requires big decisions — and solid expectations. We introduce a four-part series on planning for and making decisions around your site's internal search.
Episode 20: Implement the Back-end Functionality (w/ David Knipe) Off-site link
Corey and Deane discuss a high-level philosophy of back-end development. Then, David Knipe, Vice President of Product at Optimizely, joins to discuss back-end development — how developers and project stakeholders work together to make decisions, the difference (and balance) between technical perfection and audience needs, and the reasons why AI will help, but not take over, back-end development. Deane also equates developers to lumberjacks.
Episode 24: Maintain and Improve (w/ David Hobbs) Off-site link
Corey and Deane discuss the people and rules that help run a website after launch. Then, David Hobbs, author of Website Product Management: Keeping Focused During Change, joins to talk about transferring a site from a project to a product — what that means to keep the site going after launch, where it most often fails, and how to streamline requests and set reasonable expectations for the future of the site.
Episode 19: Implement the Design (w/ Ethan Marcotte) Off-site link
Corey and Deane talk about how front-end development has evolved past the early days. Then, Ethan Marcotte, author of Responsive Web Design and Partner at Autogram, joins to discuss front-end development and how the world has impacted how front-end design is treated and approached. We also joke about whether Deane actually “invented” responsive web design. (He didn’t.)