Sitecore Tech Digest #6 2013-12-10

So this post is a little bit liter than the last couple have been, maybe its because everyone is switching to holiday mode, or maybe just because I have been switching to holiday mode. Any way, here is the good stuff:

CMS

• Introducing Sitecore SPEAK Components - A blog running through the process of creating components using the new UI model SPEAK.
• Optimizing Sitecore For Content Editors - A list of thing that you can/should do on every Sitecore solution to make the lives of your biggest users easier.
• Sitecore Responsive Device Resolver - This is an interesting module that has just been released to the marketplace that allows you to combine adaptive and responsive design approaches to a page at once. It implements a set of rules that allow you to personalise a page based on screen-size.
• Sitecore Media Library and Azure blob storage - An approach to separating out the storage of blobs(images) from you Sitecore databases and sending them up to Azure to take advantage of their storage.

DMS / Personalisation

• Sitecore DMS Quick Win #2 - Personalization - Another post in a series of easy to achieve optimisations that can be made to your site to improve the experiences of users on your sites. This time its a tip about how to set up simple content variations for users based on where they are browsing from.
• Creating an HTTP Referrer Condition - Want to personalise your site based on what site people came from? This is post is for you.