Your AEM go live checklist advanced: perspective, decisions, and practical tradeoffs. It is a late night in the war room. Pizza boxes on the table. Slack popping every minute. The AEM author is quiet, the publish farm looks calm, and the CDN is primed. Ads are booked and the press…
Tag: web-development
Intro to aem project archetypes
Problem framing If you are kicking off a fresh AEM site this month you are probably staring at a blank repo and a lot of choices. Do we start from the AEM Project Archetype or roll our own folder layout. Do we go all in with Sightly and Sling Models…
What is phonegap a practical intro
What is PhoneGap and when should you pick it for your next mobile app. If you write HTML CSS and JavaScript all day and want to ship to the App Store and Google Play without learning Swift or Java from scratch, this guide gives a grounded view. Real tradeoffs. Real…
Mobile is driving more traffic now
Mobile is driving more traffic now Your analytics just flipped. Phones are showing up first, desktops second, and the gap grows a bit more every week. The signals have been piling up for months. Google said that in several large markets there are more searches on mobile than desktop. The…
The day to day of DAM
Today felt like a normal DAM day which is the whole point of having one. No drama. Just moving files from chaos to use and back again without breaking the flow of work. What a normal day in DAM looks like The morning started with a small traffic jam of…
The responsive approach that scales
Description: The responsive approach that scales, perspective, decisions, and practical tradeoffs. Story first, pixels later Last week I sat in a room with a product lead, a designer, two engineers, and a marketer who knows their way around spreadsheets and ad tags. The brief sounded simple. Our homepage needs to…
Mobile site or responsive the editorial tradeoffs
Everyone is asking the same thing right now. Do we ship a separate mobile site or go all in on responsive? That question is not just for the design crew. It hits the newsroom and the business side every single day. Why this debate is loud right now Search is…
Should you run a dedicated mobile site the aem view
Your traffic is already mostly on phones. The surprise is not mobile itself but how quickly it is changing what we ship. So do you spin up a dedicated mobile site or go one site for every screen. Here is the AEM view from the trenches. Google just rolled out…