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Thoughts and Articles from Blend Interactive

September 13, 2022

Sunsetting Umbraco 7: Your Path to Upgrading

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Content management systems — like all software applications — are living, breathing systems of code and design. They are built with the intention of constantly improving. They are upgradable, and they are patchable. Here's what to do to ensure your Umbraco install doesn't fall behind as Version 7 is sunsetted in 2023.

Development  |  Umbraco

May 12, 2022

Five Ways Umbraco Helps Editors

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Talk around content management systems so often focuses on features and technological advances. But there’s another side to the equation: the people who use the content management system as an editorial tool.

Umbraco

May 3, 2022

Blend Releases Two Umbraco Utilities Into the Wild

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At Blend, we’ve created our own utilities and shortcuts for helping every project become a success — and we’ve released two new ones to the Umbraco community: Blend.Sitemap and Blend.RobotsTxt.

Development  |  Umbraco

Joe Kepley January 6, 2022

Making the Choice Between Umbraco and Wordpress

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An overview of the differences between two open-source CMS systems: Umbraco and Wordpress.

Development  |  Umbraco

April 7, 2021

Blend Adds Two Umbraco Certified Professionals

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Blend is proud to announce two new Umbraco Certified Professionals within our midst: Chase Burandt and Joe Kepley!

Development  |  Umbraco

December 16, 2019  |  The Web Project Guide

Chapter 16: Select a Content Management System

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Selecting a content management system (CMS) is a combination of research and vendor engagement. You need to identify prospective systems, investigate their capabilities, engage with the vendors for demonstrations or questions, and finally distill and synthesize all that information and come to a decision.

Discovery and Scoping  |  Optimizely  |  Umbraco

December 15, 2019  |  The Web Project Guide

Chapter 15: Determine System Requirements

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At this stage, you have enough information to draw up requirements for what you need in a content management system (CMS).

Development  |  Discovery and Scoping  |  Optimizely  |  Umbraco

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