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Choosing a CMS
Categories: umbraco + digital
When we started bd2 back in 1998, content management systems didn't exist, so why did we choose Umbraco and why do we think it's the right choice for our clients?…
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Sustainability is not just about wind turbines, EV charge-points and solar panels
Categories: umbraco
Your website might not be top of the list when it comes calculating your carbon footprint or thinking about energy efficiency, but clean code can reduce processing power and CO2 emissions by up to 75%.…
We can workshop it out
Categories: Brand + business to business + marketing
There’s nothing better than getting all the relevant stakeholders round the table to thrash things out - remembering of course that there’s a difference between healthy debate and heated debate - Workshops are a tried and tested forum to do just that.…
The 2024 Umbraco Business Summit, Odense, Denmark
Categories: umbraco + ecommerce + bd2
I headed back to Odense, which is about an hour and a half’s train ride from Copenhagen, for this year’s Umbraco Business Partner Summit to find out all about what’s new and what's 'coming soon' in the wonderful world of Umbraco..,…
Manchester. The birthplace of the first industrial revolution and home of the fourth industrial revolution - 4IR.
Categories: Brand + business to business + design
Tegos UK commissioned bd2 to create '4IR' - a Customer Event with a focus on emerging technologies and how Tegos are harnessing this to enhance their solution for the benefit of its customers in the recycling and waste management sector.…
The 7 pillars of content organisation
Categories: digital + umbraco
Bringing together all the content needed for a new website can seem like a daunting task, following the '7 pillars of content organisation' brings structure to the process.…
Umbraco sweeps the boards at the CMS Critic Awards
Categories: umbraco + user experience
Just like Oppenheimer at the recent Oscars, Umbraco has 'swept the boards' at the CMS Critic Awards winning in 5 main categories: Best Enterprise CMS. Best DXP. Best Headless CMS. Best AI Solution in a CMS or DXP. Best Composable Solution.…
Managing access to your digital assets
Categories: umbraco + user experience + business to business
To give away or lock away, that is the question - it’s always a dilemma because you want to provide users with all the information they need but by giving open access to all your digital assets it's very handy for your competitors to download them too.…
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.
Categories: digital + marketing
Online retailer Hello Fresh have been hit with a £140,000 fine, which is just one of the £2.44 million worth of fines the ICO issued since April last year, for sending emails without proper opt outs and having inadequate GDPR procdeures. …
Umbraco 8 eol
Categories: umbraco + digital + bd2
If your website is built in Umbraco version 8, it's nearing eol. This article answers the questions that we are frequently asked and the issues that you should consider when planning your upgrade.…
Umbraco Business Partner Summit London 02.11.23
Categories: umbraco + business to business + ecommerce
The 2023 Umbraco Business Partner Summit, hosted by McCann's in their rather splendid Bishopsgate office, focused on the platform's ever increasing adoption - globally and by major brands; user recognition - G2 research Leader; and the ongoing development of the solution - ecommerce, composable, marketplace. …
HS2 fingers up to Wigan
Categories: bd2 + wigan
In 1993 the new high-speed TGV train line connected Lille with Paris in one hour. It was a catalyst for the rejuvenation of Lille, an industrial town struggling with the decline of its coal, mining and textile industries, transforming its economy. When HS2 was announced we were assured that ‘Wigan will be the new Lille’.…
The bd25 party
Categories: bd2
As part of our 25 years in business celebrations we held a party at bd2 studios …
and the leader of the .net cms pack is...
Following in depth research into 6 leading .net cms platforms, G2 have published a comparisons report which we've reinterpreted into rankings…
25 years of ideas
Established in 1998 we're celebrating 25 years in business.…
What is ‘composable’ architecture?
Composable architecture is a way of building 'tech stacks' to combine a number of platforms and different components, it's flexible, agile, secure and it's becoming the 'go-to' approach …
As Whitney Houston once sang: "I believe the children are our future..."
Categories: digital + education
As the digital sector continues to accelerate so the skills gap continues to grow, making it near impossible for recruitment and staffing levels to keep pace with ever-evolving advancements.…
Umbraco Impact Report
Umbraco, renowned as the friendliest and most flexible .Net open-source CMS on the market, is the platform we use to deliver all kinds of great web solutions. As Gold Partners we were delighted to receive their first Impact Report - here's a summary.…
The end of an era for online news?
Categories: digital
With Vice reportedly facing bankruptcy and BuzzFeed closing down its news division, the world of journalism is facing another seismic shift.…
Factor in some re-factoring.
Your new website is proving successful creating demand for new features and more functionality, but continuous development can store up 'technical debt' so you need to allow for some re-factoring.…
