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May 27, 2025

A Redesign that Provides a Clear Path to Justice

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Blend redesigned the SD UJS site for clarity, accessibility, and ease of use, with Umbraco CMS, better content tools, and improved document handling.

Government  |  Content and IA  |  Design and Front-End  |  Development  |  Migration  |  Project Management  |  Umbraco

Shannan Anderson  |  October 16, 2024

The Basics of a Content Entry Plan

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Feeling overwhelmed by content migration? No worries. Lead Project Manager Shannan Anderson breaks down the process from start to finish on how to incorporate content planning into your web project. 

Content and IA  |  Migration  |  Project Management  |  Strategy

Chase Burandt, Chris Wahl & Steph Sommers  |  September 3, 2024

Upgrade Your CMS: Umbraco or Optimizely

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What do you need to know when it comes to an Optimizely or Umbraco upgrade? We asked some of our lead developers to highlights some of the common obstacles and pain points of a large CMS upgrade.

Development  |  Migration  |  Optimizely  |  Umbraco

Bob Davidson  |  March 8, 2024

Introducing Blend's Little Import Tool

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Blend has taken our decades of migration experience and developed Blend's Little Import Tool — a utility for improving the import process.

Development  |  Migration

October 13, 2023

A CMS Migration with an Added Design Audit: The Best of Both Worlds

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Website migration takes time, patience, and good communication. To be efficient while migrating Mechanics Bank to Optimizely, Blend also highlighted areas where design could be improved.

Financial Services  |  Design and Front-End  |  Migration  |  Optimizely

Joe Kepley  |  October 12, 2023

A Vision for a Pain-Free Migration 

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Migrations don’t have to be a pain — Blend has a process and vision going forward of how to make the migration process simpler. 

Development  |  Migration  |  Strategy

August 22, 2023

A New and Flexible Umbraco Site to Promote Healthy Living

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The South Dakota Department of Health partnered with Blend and Umbraco to create a future-focused, relevant, and flexible website to promote healthy living across the state.

Government  |  Healthcare  |  Content and IA  |  Design and Front-End  |  Development  |  Digital Optimization  |  Migration  |  Strategy  |  Umbraco

July 18, 2023  |  The Web Project Guide Podcast

Episode 21: Migrate and Populate the Content (w/ Carrie Hane)

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Corey and Deane discuss an old migration project. Then, Carrie Hane, Principal Digital Strategist at Sanity and co-author of Designing Connected Content, joins to talk about preparing content for site migration — how good content modeling helps set up a site for future success, the psychological side of migrations, and a few horror stories from Carrie and Deane. Carrie graciously insists this is not the most depressing episode yet.

Content and IA  |  Migration  |  Strategy

July 15, 2022

Moving a Bank from Design to Umbraco Implementation

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Western State Bank had a design that needed to be implemented within Umbraco. Thankfully, that’s exactly what Blend was able to help them do.

Financial Services  |  Development  |  Migration  |  Umbraco

December 20, 2021

A Seamless, No-Fuss Move to Episerver DXP

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The benefits were apparent as we helped move a nationally renowned children's hospital to their new Optimizely DXP environment.

Healthcare  |  Development  |  Migration  |  Optimizely

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