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Sitecore Workflow Security: A Simple Walkthrough

By Grant Bartlett On April 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Workflows are essential to the content author experience in Sitecore. Along with security, they determine when (and by whom) content can be edited as well as identify when it is ready to be published.

Outlined below are steps to reproduce NLC’s typical workflow security implementation. It focuses on flexibility, ensuring content authors can access multiple workflows [...]

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Personalization with Profiles and Pattern Cards in Sitecore DMS

By Houda Rachidi On April 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment


As part of the Customer Engagement Platform, Sitecore’s Digital Marketing System (DMS) presents various tools to enhance content personalization within a website.

For this purpose, Sitecore enables the concept of Predictive Personalization. A visitor’s behavior in the website is analyzed and mapped to predefined patterns.  Following this mapping, personalization rules can be [...]

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Database Sizing for the Sitecore Customer Engagement Platform – Part 3

By Glen McInnis On April 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In the opening posts of this series I shared many guidelines for sizing Sitecore CEP data based on intended usage of the capabilities of the system.  Two additional factors must be considered.  First, your organization’s need for high availability, disaster recovery and backup will easily multiply the overall storage requirements.   Finally, the anticipated growth trajectory [...]

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Database Sizing for the Sitecore Customer Engagement Platform – Part 2

By Glen McInnis On April 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In the opening post of this series I shared basic sizing guidelines for Sitecore CEP, but if your organization intends to fully leverage the capabilities of CEP you will also need to consider the impacts of goals, conversions and events.

Goals, Campaigns and Page Events

The PageEvents table holds a record of all page [...]

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Database Sizing for the Sitecore Customer Engagement Platform

By Glen McInnis On April 17, 2012 · 1 Comment

The Sitecore Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) provides rich capabilities that can transform the way you engage with your customers online. The technical foundation to that capability is Sitecore’s ability to capture and store visitor behavior. Planning for the storage of this invaluable data should be top of mind for any Sitecore architect.

At first glance [...]

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Upcoming event: Developer’s guide to interaction and interface design

By Joe Boughner On March 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Are you a developer who’s sick of complaints about the usability of your interfaces? Looking for some simple rules to follow to make nice looking, usable solutions?

We might just be able to help.

NLC’s own Amanda Holtstrom is hosting a two-hour workshop for Girl Develop It called “A Developer’s Guide [...]

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Marketing Ethics and Website Personalization: 5 ways to prevent your site from being creepy

By Robyn Bragg On February 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Marketing automation tools and website personalization can transform your site from a source of static information into a two-way conversation with your users. But as in any real-world conversation you need to follow the social ground rules or risk alienating your users.

Don’t be “that guy” (or gal)

You know the one: the stranger on [...]

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Introduction to Parameter Templates: Accessing Sublayout parameters using the Sitecore API

By Nick Allen On January 27, 2012 · 1 Comment

In part 1 of this series Introduction to Sitecore Parameter Templates: Making Sublayout configuration more intuitive we looked at the advantages of using Parameter Templates.

In part 2 of this series Introduction to [...]

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Simple Changes for Website Tablet Compatibility

By Aaron Powell On January 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Tablets are a rapidly growing market in the world of internet accessible devices and should be taken into consideration when developing any usable website today. Tablet adoption rates are expected to increase from about 6% of internet users in 2010 to nearly 40% of internet users by 2015. Your website needs to be ready for [...]

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Introduction to Sitecore Parameter Templates: Sitecore client configuration deep dive

By Nick Allen On December 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

In part 1 of this series Introduction to Sitecore Parameter Templates: Making sublayout configuration more intuitive we looked at the advantages of using parameter templates

For the context of this article I will be working on a simple online department store, with multiple departments.

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