Aware’s own Jeremy Ziegler (Chairman/CEO) and Deb Francis (VP of Client Engagement) recently presented at the Online Marketing Summit. Here are five key takeaways in case you missed it. More...

When creating content within Sitecore, or any CMS for that matter, you would like to view the content exactly how it will appear on the live site. Sitecore allows you to specify a CSS file to load into the RadEditor. This lets you view the styles in Design mode as they would appear on the published site and also populates the Apply CSS Class dropdown list with available CSS classes.  Unfortunately, the standard behavior only allows a single style sheet and any class defined within it will be made available in the class dropdown. Often times this is less than ideal. Frequently, certain pages or elements of a page have special style rules that are not shared across the whole site. In this post we will show how to extend Sitecore to allow you to specify a style sheet and the classes available in the Class dropdown as part of the editor profile. More...

This is the second half of a two-part series about designing for content management systems. The first half, which focuses on Flexibility and Manageability, can be read here. More...

Part 1: Flexibility and Manageability
Today's robust content management systems can handle the implementation of even the most complicated website designs with very few restrictions, but that doesn't mean designers should feel free to go hog-wild, designing and coding with utter abandon.

In addition to the typical things a modern web designer must consider with each project (such as usability, information architecture, functionality, user experience, and basic aesthetic principles), we also need to focus on optimizing our designs and code for the following interrelated considerations when designing for implementation into a CMS system: More...