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 ...

It’s hard to believe that we’re nearly at the end of the year! Around this time, many digital teams start to think about priorities for the coming year, and consider their strategies, plans and roadmap. This year, the themes of digital customer experience and web development are big influences on these considerations.Here at 3Chillies, we’ve taken another glimpse into our crystal ball to look at some of the trends that are likely to arise during 2022. Many of these are similar to what we predicted last year, and are running themes already ...

Enterprise DXP or open source is not the right question to ask.Selecting the right digital experience platform (DXP) or content management system (CMS) for your website, digital project and digital marketing stack is a strategic decision. You want to make sure you can successfully deliver the customer experience that will drive outcomes to move your business forward.We recently explored the many functional and non-functional requirements that must be considered when choosing the right platform for your organisation and your team. A ...

Not using personalisation on your Digital Experience Platform? Here’s how to get startedWhen you invest in a Digital Experience Platform (DXP) like Sitecore or Optimizely, you have a wide set of capabilities at your fingertips, meaning you can achieve a lot through your rich set of features. In fact, it’s often these that sway the decision to acquire a particular DXP in the first place; for example, the powerful personalisation in Sitecore is one of its key selling points. However, despite good intentions to leverage these features, many ...

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 ...

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of the most important aspects of website management. Every web team wants to ensure their website is found by the right people with the right search intent in order to generate visits and ultimately leads to conversions, with people buying products or getting in touch. When people talk about SEO, they predominantly mean configuring your site and its content so it is optimised around Google, which counts for the vast majority of web searches.The huge volume of material available on the web to read ...

Why the CMS admin and editor experience is criticalWhen there is a a digital project such as a new website or an app, the focus will be on the quality of the final experience that is delivered for customers, and the positive impact that this should then have on lead generation, visits, sales and more. With the eyes on this prize, sometimes it is easy to forget other groups whose experience also needs to be taken into account.In many respects the user experience of the internal administrators, publishers and content editors who work with a ...

Act now: What are Core Web Vitals and why are they important?SEO is critical. The search page ranking for various different keywords continues to influence the activity of digital teams, covering content, design, coding and everything in between. So, when Google makes a change to their core algorithm that may impact page rankings, digital teams need to act accordingly.Google’s stated reasoning behind making changes to their search algorithms is to reflect and reward better user experience, so the changes that you make to your website in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on many changes to the way we work and live. Many of us worked from home for months and interacted virtually with our colleagues. As the co-owner of a business but also as somebody who has always enjoyed working, this has made me reflect on how we work. What do each of us get out of the working day? What is really important? What does a great day look like? What has the experience of working during the pandemic taught us that we can make things better in the future?Goodbye Beacontree CourtAfter many ...

Over the last few years 3Chillies has delivered many successful digital projects for government and public sector organisations. We’ve worked with everyone from central government departments to local councils to the NHS and beyond, and it’s been an important area for our business.Recently we heard that 3Chillies has been accepted onto the G-Cloud 13 and Digital Outcomes 6 frameworks. Both these are UK-government managed supplier lists that help public sector and government bodies to procure expert help for cloud hosting, migration and ...