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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

April 11, 2025

A Startup Mentality for an Association Project

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Bringing a startup mentality to a multi-tiered project, our work with Entrepreneurs' Organization was one of iteration, extensibility, and a great site built with Umbraco.

Associations  |  Design and Front-End  |  Development  |  Strategy  |  Umbraco

October 25, 2024

Moving a Musical Institution to Umbraco

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The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra needed a site that was simple, easy to update, and affordable, so it turned to Blend and Umbraco for a site refresh and migration.

Events and Commerce  |  Content and IA  |  Design and Front-End  |  Umbraco

October 23, 2024

How Let’s Skate Moved From a Single Campaign to a Community Brand

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From a one-off campaign to the future of the skate community in Sioux Falls, Let’s Skate looked to Blend to help ensure their online message was clear and ready to transmit.

Associations  |  Design and Front-End  |  Umbraco

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

May 8, 2024

Blend Interactive is an Umbraco Platinum Partner

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Blend Interactive has been named a Umbraco Platinum Partner — a partnership that continues to thrive and grow stronger.

Development  |  Umbraco

Chase Burandt  |  March 4, 2024

Umbraco vs. Drupal

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Chase Burandt, Lead Umbraco Developer, breaks down the reasons why Blend evolved from working with Drupal to Umbraco.

Development  |  Umbraco

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

August 22, 2023

A Design System to Promote Healthy Living 

A stylized photo of the SD Capitol with a South Dakota Department of Health logo.

When your site’s core audience is "everyone who lives in the state,” a consistent and universal message relies on a consistent and universal design system. 

Government  |  Healthcare  |  Design and Front-End  |  Development  |  Umbraco

June 20, 2023  |  The Web Project Guide Podcast

Episode 20: Implement the Back-end Functionality (w/ David Knipe)

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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.

Development  |  Optimizely  |  Umbraco

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