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Dream about Umbraco - Codegarden 2019

At Codegarden 2019 Jeffrey shared his dreams about the future of Umbraco in a presentation. Thanks to his many years of experience with the content management system he was named Most Valuable Person (MVP) in 2017, 2018 and also this year. A special title that not many people get. Jeffrey was also invited to participate in the Umbraco Retreat. He was able to share his opinion, but also to think about the interpretion and content of Umbraco with other ambassadors.

Curious about what Jeffrey would do when he was the boss of Umbraco? Download the presentation in this blog!

Editing & Umbraco - Codegarden 2019

This year our colleague Fedosja made her debut on the stage of Codegarden 2019. As a project manager at Perplex, she has gained a lot of experience with the popular content management system Umbraco. The system this annual event in Denmark is all about.

In her presentation Fedosja created more awareness for the role of the editor in a unique way. A role she can tell more about because of her share in the design of a new platform for dirkzwager.nl. A personal authoring environment where any specialist can create, publish and manage new articles, and existing articles are reviewed and maintained. In 2018 the platform received the Umbraco award for Best Editing Experience. Curious about the tips that Fedosja shared in her presentation? Download it in this blog!

Umbraco v8: changes for developers

The release of Umbraco v8 has just been announced. We have been playing around with the alpha versions that were available for testing for a while now and in this blog I try to give a quick overview of the biggest changes for developers like myself. If you are not a developer or are simply more interested in changes that impact editors instead, head over to part 1 of our blog series focused on editor changes.

This blog grew quite large due to all the changes in v8 so let me start with a little TL;DR: things are looking great!

The all new Umbraco 8

Umbraco is the user friendly open source content management system that we at Perplex have been using for years to make the internet prettier, better and more efficient. Ever since the first Umbraco 8 (the next big major release) announcement our expectations have been huge. In the past years of Umbraco’s development, Umbraco mainly focused on the options, possibilities and extensions for developers. In more recent releases more and more attention is given to the user experience and the editor. Umbraco 7 completely redid the back-office UX, a very worthwhile upgrade for the editor. And, according to Umbraco, Umbraco 8 will be the next step, for both developer and editor alike.

Why everyone should be digitally accessible

For years we have been fighting for digitally accessible websites. And with success: research shows that among the 5 best-scoring hospital websites, 3 are made by Perplex: Ziekenhuis Groep Twente (ZGT), VieCuri Medisch Centrum and Rijnstate! We are not yet finished with our mission to make the internet more accessible. Next month, the new Isala website will be live, which will of course be super accessible. No concessions are made in the design. In fact, it only gets better! We would like to introduce you to the principles of digital accessibility, read along?

Talk to your Umbraco website with Google Home

On October 24th Google launched Google Home in Dutch. From then on I can talk in my mother tongue with this smart speaker in my own living room. At Perplex we believe that voice will play a big role in our daily life on the internet in the future. We started experimenting over a year ago to prepare for this (r)evolution. What can we do, and what do we want to do with Google Home? How can we use Google Home in our daily work? Can Google Home help us work more efficiently? We will present our proof-of-concept Umbraco package and our Google Home app in this blog for our favourite CMS: Umbraco.

Security & Umbraco - Codegarden 2018

During the annual Umbraco Festival CodeGarden in Odense (Denmark) our colleague Jeffrey gave a presentation about security & Umbraco. In this presentation he demonstrates how he would hack a fictional Umbraco website, and how you can protect your website against these methods. The slides also show 9 concrete tips that are easily and directly applicable to your Umbraco website. You can download the presentation below to read at your leisure.

We won prizes at CodeGarden 2018!

This week CodeGarden 2018 took place: the international conference about the open source CMS Umbraco. Our colleagues Tim, Dennis, Jeffrey, Leon and Daniel travelled to beautiful Odense to learn, listen and share. And that's not all, because we've been nominated four times, and we won 2 Umbraco awards!