Umbraco and server side headless integration

Umbraco is a great CMS that has been steadily been getting better over the last 2 years. It has a really easy user interface, is easily extendable and for the most part takes the heavy lifting out of creating CMS websites. One feature that initially…

Introducing Positional Content

Whilst running Hi-Fi, we kept coming across the same interesting problem again and again. It began with…

Introduction to Blocking on the front-end

We define a block as a part of UI functionality to include all the elements required to be viewed as a self-contained example. It includes 4 distinct parts; markup, style, data and schema. Blocks can be used within blocks and blocks are composed to create a…

Parallel website production

When I first started building websites 15 years ago, I did it all; design, CSS, server-side coding, database building and anything else you can think of. In the years since then, each role has become more complex and it’s only right that they are filled by specialists. Instead of…

Web development… is It all just mail merge?

A lighthearted look at the fundamentals of the web…

Server-side Headless Websites

If you’re not familiar with website development, the phrase separation of concerns may sound like a complicated negotiation tactic. In the world of the web, it can be the foundation of a stable relationship between logical, process-driven functions and declarative, design-led…