What are the benefits of Umbraco 9?Recently on this blog, I covered the latest updates from Umbraco’s flagship Codegarden conference. Many of the virtual sessions were preparing for Umbraco 9 - the brand-new release of the Umbraco’s core CMS. Now 9 is finally here, I’m going to explore its main features and benefits in this post.If you’re not familiar with Umbraco, it’s a great open-source CMS that is very easy for administrators to use, is highly flexible and cost-effective, and can render excellent results. We’ve often used it for ...

January is the time when many of us are considering our plans and priorities for the coming months. Tech vendors and CMS providers might reveal their strategic roadmap for the year and beyond around this time, providing a useful resource for digital teams who want to align their own plans with the platform they use.Umbraco, the open-source CMS and digital experience platform, recently released a post called “Umbraco 2022 and onwards” - a short but striking strategic statement about the company’s direction and priorities for the next five ...

Each year at the Symposium - the annual conference run by Sitecore - there are a range of different strategic announcements, product updates, expert sessions and case studies. At the 2021 event, held online for the second year running, the main themes were undoubtedly Sitecore’s evolution towards offering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, and the related support for the “composable” Digital Experience Platform (DXP). In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at Sitecore’s SaaS model, explore just what a composable DXP is and ...

How to use Umbraco as a headless CMS  Recently, there has been a lot of focus on headless publishing, with different CMS providers and Digital Experience Platform (DXP) vendors like Sitecore pushing their headless capabilities. This is partly due to the continued success of headless CMS vendors like Contentful who have received investment, as well as the increasing number of SaaS offerings in the content management and digital experience space that are API-ready. This is opening up more possibilities around headless publishing.  Despite ...

Readers of this blog will know that Umbraco is one of our favourite Content Management Systems (CMSs) to work with. It’s quite a rarity in the digital customer experience space, in that it is very popular with developers who enjoy coding with it, web admins who find it intuitive and flexible, and content teams who find the core CMS very easy to use. It also has a loyal and active global community, partly because it is an open-source platform, but also because it has been ably steered by Umbraco HQ who have continued to expand the ...

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We build award winning websites. We build high performing websites. We build marketing platforms. We build experiences.Selecting the right CMS is essential to creating a flexible, scalable and sustainable platform for your new web presence/intranet/extranet. 3chillies use the best .NET content management technologies available. We work with both open source and enterprise products, though predominantly with a .NET approach for development. This allows us to focus all our development efforts on a single code-base.  We remain impressed by ...