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There are lots of options when it comes to hosting an Umbraco site, and considering the benefits of website hosting infrastructure isn’t the most exciting subject for many Marketing Managers, it’s important to ensure that you have hosting that meets your needs. In this post we’ll take a look at 5 of the most common hosting platforms available for Umbraco. Umbraco agency managed hosting platforms Many specialist Umbraco agencies and Gold Partners provide their own managed hosting platform.  This can provide you with a one stop solution for your hosting needs, taking away the headaches associated with setting up your…

With the fast-moving pace of technology for website design, changes in consumer expectations, and evolving requirements from search engines, no website can last forever in its initial form. As businesses grow and adapt, so must their websites, or risk losing out to other online competition. Your website is a critical business asset which should always be working as efficiently as possible to help increase brand awareness, create a great user experience and drive sales and revenue. With consumers and businesses shifting more and more to digital your website needs to be built in a way that can stand the test…

In today’s market, no business can afford to have a poor performing or outdated website. Your site is not just your placeholder for contact details, it is your digital storefront, and your window to the world. No matter if you are running a B2B or B2C business, a poor online experience with your brand will disenfranchise users, reducing their trust and authority in what you have to offer, and encourage them to look elsewhere.  Over time, this trust can decay and lead to a lack of sales, leads and profit loss.  As we move into 2021, companies wanting to improve…

The start of October saw the release of Umbraco 8.8 offering both developers and content editors improved accessibility with a host of new features and developments. Here we take a look at what you can expect from the latest version.  Cropping images to the Grid Umbraco 8.7 introduced a game changer with the Block List Editor - a new tool for editing flexible grid-based layouts now commonplace in modern responsive design. Version 8.8 builds on this by using the Grid Media Picker but with added functionality allowing cropping and previewing of images directly in Grid Layouts. This means that Content…

Today saw the production release of a significant new version of Umbraco CMS.  Umbraco 8.7 releases a number of much anticipated new features for the .NET based CMS, including a new Block List Editor, segmentation of content as well as many performance improvements and bug fixes. Block List Editor The Block List Editor is a new tool for editing flexible grid-based layouts which are now commonplace in modern responsive design.  Whereas in earlier versions of Umbraco we have used a number of external packages, including Stacked Content and DocType Grid Editor, it is now possible for us to design editing…

I'm interested in demonstrating some common practice and use cases for Umbraco, and have agreed in principle to a series of 4 Skrift articles where I'll collaborate with volunteers to explore different ways of achieving different client briefs. This series of 4 articles will give a Dev (or Devs) an opportunity to develop a solution to a brief that I agree with the Skrift Editorial Team (Janae, Erica and Kyle). The brief should be a constrained feature of a larger project, e.g. a page type in a wider site, not the whole site! Ideally we'll find volunteers for the design,…

Privacy is important to many consumers and new laws in Brazil, which follow those in Europe and California, mean that it is important for Marketers and Heads of Digital who target or trade in Brazil to ensure their digital platforms comply these new regulations.  After Umbraco released updates to the core CMS and Umbraco Forms it has been easier for marketers to maintain a compliant marketing platform. Brazil's Own Version of GDPR  Privacy protection for individuals and consumers has had a lot of much needed attention in recent years, first with the introduction of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…

Personalisation means customising each user’s experience on your site to meet their needs, and it has been used to great effect on many large ecommerce sites, such as Amazon, where they used vast amounts of customer data to offer a personalised homepage, and recommendations that are tuned to the interests and needs of that individual customer. At Carbon Six Digital we've developed a simple tag-based personalisation system for Members, i.e. users that are logged into the front end of a site e.g. staff in an Intranet or registered customers on an ecommerce site. It's simple to use and easy on…

Finding the right CMS for your business can be a a potential minefield. At Carbon Six Digital we find that, more often than not, businesses approach us needing to find an expert delivery partner, having already chosen the CMS platform they wish to work with. As part of a blog post by Umbraco HQ, Director, Paul Marden, asks two clients why they chose the Umbraco CMS.   Michelle Hughes, Head of Marketing, Wright Hassall LLP Our old CMS was bespoke, so we were tied to one agency, and it limited us in terms of the experience we were able to offer…

For a recent article in Skrift magazine, Gareth and Paul spent time, comparing and contrasting the different Umbraco ecommerce packages for version 8. Traditionally on Umbraco 7 brands have been left to integrate Umbraco with an off-platform solution such as Shopify, or to use one of three third-party Umbraco packages, Tea Commerce, UCommerce and Merchello. There are substantial differences between each of them, but chiefly Tea Commerce and UCommerce were paid-for proprietary systems and Merchello open source. With the launch of Umbraco 8 and it’s substantially rewritten API, a lot of work was required by most package vendors to enable…