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Thoughts and Articles from Blend Interactive

Shannan Anderson  |  March 26, 2025

Keeping Your Website Fresh: 10 Post-Launch Web Tasks

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A website's success doesn't hinge on what happens on launch day — it's an ongoing balance of maintenance and improvement after your site has already launched.

Development  |  Project Management

Joe Kepley  |  March 12, 2025

Maximizing Your Project Budget

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At Blend, one of our core values is advocating for our clients. One of the ways we do this is by trying to maximize the value we can provide for our client's project budgets. Understanding the cost drivers behind web development can often be confusing.

Discovery and Scoping

Bob Davidson  |  February 11, 2025

Getting the Most Out of Optimizely Cloudflare Edge Logs

Bob Davidson sitting at a table in his office.

Optimizely is introducing the ability to access Cloudflare's edge logs, which gives access to some information previously unavailable except through support.

Development  |  Optimizely

Karla Santi  |  December 30, 2024

Reflecting on Blend’s “Nine-Ender” Year

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Blend is at a pivotal moment, celebrating 19 years in business and a year of bold decisions and growth.

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

Joe Kepley  |  October 16, 2024

Must Have Features of a Children's Hospital Website

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Your website can often be the first impression of the level of care your healthcare team provides – giving you a chance to welcome a child and their family to your children's hospital long before they set foot in the front door. 

Healthcare  |  Content and IA  |  Development  |  Strategy

September 6, 2024

Blend is an Optimizely Platinum Partner

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Blend Interactive has been named a 2024 Optimizely Platinum Solutions Partner — a partnership that has withstood the test of time. 

Development  |  Optimizely

Karla Santi  |  September 5, 2024

From Code to Care: The Hidden Impact of Our Work

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Coding with compassion, Karla shares some light into one of the ways Blend creates purpose behind the keyboard.

Healthcare  |  Development  |  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

Joe Kepley  |  August 28, 2024

Main Site or Microsite — Make the Most of Your Digital Event Strategy

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Hosting an event for your association is one thing, but promoting it online to the right audience is a different conversation. 

Associations  |  Design and Front-End  |  Development  |  Strategy