Toggle menu COGBLOG: The official Cogworks blog. A place for news, thoughts and insights on strategy, design and build. Build Azure DevOps Essentials for Agile Teams The essentials that can help you level up your DevOps transformations in agile teams. Read blog News What it Means to be an Umbraco Gold Partner Check out our contributions to the Umbraco project and find out what it means to be one of the original Gold Partners. Read blog Strategy Why Side Projects Are Part of Our Process For years, we have been building side projects into our process to address gaps in knowledge and become more wonderful at what we love. Projects range from personal endeavours to collective ones, and the freedom to choose influences the return of all sorts of ideas... Read blog Strategy 3 Ways to Win Consumer Trust With Your Website Here are our top 3 ideas, put together by strategy, design and build experts so that you can maintain trust through your digital services in 2021: Read blog Build Why Integrate your Document Management System With Azure and Umbraco? Here's how we integrated Umbraco seamlessly with Document Management System, DotApprove to improve compliance for Financial Services organisation, Canada Life. Read blog Build Website Security Checklist: The 4 Basics If you're monitoring your solutions in-house, these essential tips should cover the basics that you need to ensure you don't get any nasty surprises. Read blog Build Azure Resource Naming Tips HowToEnsure-your-azure-portal-resourcesareWELLNAMED Read blog Strategy Powerful Content Automation Solutions for Better Web Editing Content automation has the power to solve many of our publishing woes. But automation doesn't have to result in impersonal, generic and non-authentic experiences! Read blog Strategy Managing Our Minds at Work To mark #WorldMentalHealthDay, our team share how they find calm in between looming deadlines and working from home. Read blog Build Could Website Downtime Be Prevented? Cogworks CTO, talks about three common ways development teams are protecting companies from digital disruption. Read blog Strategy No Search Is Better Than Bad Search Here's why the recipe for a great overall user experience is 1 part Azure Cognitive Search and 1 part Implementation! Read blog Build Keeping Up With Digital Transformation Is Digital Transformation ever complete? To understand, we take a look at trends that have come, gone and firmly stuck. Read blog Build A Frontend Developers Perspective on Headless Architecture Is headless really that straightforward? Let’s take a look at some pros and cons of headless or decoupled approach from the frontend perspective Read blog Build How to Test Accessibility With Axe in Cypress Cogworks QA professional, Aga, explains why web accessibility is so important in software development testing and recommends the perfect tools to get started. Read blog Build How to Automate Performance Testing in 5 Hours Learn about the inspiration and tech stack behind Wojciech's creation, Performeter; a tool for performance testing. Read blog Build How to Setup a Private NuGet Feed in Azure DevOps Pipelines Developer, Greg shares his 4-step process on how to set-up a private NuGet feed in Azure Devops Pipelines Read blog Build Quick Guide to Running Sub-Workflows With GitHub Actions Automation wizard and Cogworks developer Adrian Ochmann talks about two strategies that can help you run effective sub-workflows using GitHub actions. Read blog Strategy Why Take Part in Agile Client Retrospectives? In software development, what do we do when things don't go to plan? We have a client retro. What do we do when things DO go to plan? We have a client retro. Read blog Build How to Use Google Lighthouse for Better Web Performance #Perfstillmatters. But there's good news, Google Lighthouse & tools! Read blog Build Should Developers Embrace Low-Code and No-Code Technology? Well, should we? Are there any good reasons to embrace low-code and no-code development in 2021? Read blog Build Creating a Dynamic ecommerce Website With Umbraco and Vendr Here’s what happened when we united Umbraco and its customisable ecommerce counterpart, Vendr. Read blog Build The Importance of Modern Web Performance Testing Cogworks CTO, Marcin explains why performance testing is so important in a project and how we can apply best practice. Read blog Build How to Publish NuGet Packages with GitHub In part two of the GitHub series, Developer Adrian shows us how to publish a NuGet package. Read blog Build The Quick Guide to Visual Regression Testing With Cypress A quick guide to visual regression testing with the popular end to end testing platform, Cypress. Read blog Strategy 6 Reasons Why Your Business Should Migrate to The Cloud Cogworks CEO & co-founder Adam explains the business benefits of migrating to cloud hosting. Read blog Build Getting started with visual regression testing and WebdriverIO Power up your visual regression testing using Webdriver with these tips, tricks and tutorials from frontend developer, Arek! Read blog Strategy 5 Tools for Effective Communication in Remote Teams Our top 5 apps that get you talking... Read blog Strategy How to Declutter Your Workflows With Trello Project Team Lead, Katie, shows us how a digital spring clean made a big difference to our project workflow with just a few simple changes to Trello! Read blog Build Integrate Netlify With Cypress: A Quick Guide Developer Grzegorz whizzes through a quick way to integrate Netlify with Cypress so you can power-up modern automation testing in your projects. Read blog Strategy 5 Ways to Ensure Your Financial Services Website Stays Ahead in 2021 Staying ahead starts with reacting to shifts in consumer behaviour. Here are five ways financial services firms can leverage their website to speak authentically to new and returning customers for years to come. Read blog Build How to Use Tailwind With BEM Merge the King of Utility with the best of Modular CSS to create a brilliant combination for your projects. Read blog Build Using TeamCity for continuous integration with NodeJS and Grunt Warren Buckley documented what we currently use for our front-end build processes and takes us through how to install all those crazy tools! Read blog Build Reasons to Replatform A replatforming project for your website should consider every one of your users for years to come; that’s content editors, stakeholders and browsers of your site. Read blog Strategy Contribution Is King You may already know we're an Umbraco Contributing Gold Partner...but we're part of a much bigger community too; open source. Read blog Strategy Working with an Agile Driven Agency What to expect from working with Certified Scrum Professionals and Certified Scrum Product Owners Read blog Build Generate Free SSL Certificates and Bind It to Azure Webapp With Devops A mini Cogtutorial for those who have multiple Azure Web Apps with custom domains and would like to automatically bind SSL certificates to their Web Apps domains (for free). Read blog Build How to Simplify Azure Search Implementations If you have ever struggled with implementing Azure Search on your projects then you’re not alone. Find out how we solved this with a simple package, the Cogworks.AzureSearch. Read blog Strategy 5 Ways our Support Plan Can Help Your Umbraco Website Grow An Umbraco support plan should work around the clock to keep your website safe... Read blog Build How to Build a Desktop Application With Electron and Vue Front-end Developer Wojciech works with American actor, Chuck Norris, to demonstrate how easy it is to create a desktop app with Electron and Vue. Read blog Build Umbraco v8: How to Pick a Block Style Editor An in-depth review and quick comparison of the currently available block style (grid-based) editors for Umbraco v8. Read blog Strategy 6 Reasons Why Manual QA Testing Is Here to Stay Cogworks QA Testers, Kasia and Marcin, share why they think manual QA testing is sure to be sticking around for years to come. Read blog Build 7 Front-End Tools For Productivity When you’re repeating similar front-end tasks daily, let tools be your friend. Here are seven essential front-end development tools that are time-saving and a pleasure to use. Cogworks have even created one from scratch. Read blog Build How our Umbraco Health Check works Find out how our health check works and how it helped the UK's biggest website for family attractions improve user experience for content editors and users. Read blog Build 7 Tips for More Effective Code Reviews Developer, Marcin, reveals his top tips for effective code reviews and explains how you can apply them to your working environment. Read blog Build How to Publish Npm Packages with GitHub Creating packages is fun...but sometimes we need help to manage them! In part one of the GitHub series, Cogworks Dev, Adrian Ochmann, takes us through a step-by-step set-up of GitHub packages and gives us the low-down on all the benefits. Read blog Strategy 5 Tips to Keep Your Zoom Call Secure As a Cyber Essentials Plus partner, our priority is to protect our organisation online. These 5 tips will help to keep your Zoom conversations safe and secure. Read blog Build Updating Cogworks Umbraco Find and Replace: V7 to V8 I Initially thought it would not be too hard a task, unfortunately I was wrong... Read blog Build Introducing Nuxt.js: Why We Love This Framework Wojciech and the front-end development team share their experience of using Nuxt.js in a recent web project and share some handy tips they found along the way. Read blog Build Avoiding Inherited Project Horrors Ever taken on a project from someone else and uncovered some unwanted skeletons in the closet along the way? We share our top tips on avoiding this nightmare! Read blog News 5 Inspiring Companies That Use Digital Solutions to Save the Planet It's #EarthDay2020 today. We’re celebrating with a round-up of brilliant, environmentally conscious work being carried out in digital right now! Read blog Build Umbraco VS Wordpress: Which is the winning camp? They are both easy to use CMSs, they are both Open Source and are both used by millions of people and businesses across the globe. So, which one is the best – pound for pound? Read blog Strategy Top 6 Apps and Tools for Productive Remote Working Cogworks team share their top 6 apps and tools for distributed teams and home working. Read blog Build How We Overcame Multilingual Struggles in Umbraco v8 Umbraco v8 introduced a new way of managing multilingual content and at first glance everything looked great...but the devil was in the details. Read blog Strategy Process Mapping & I, a love story This is a short story about how I became enamoured with translating almost every aspect of my job into a ‘structured series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end’. Read blog Design Umbraco Festival Design Evolution We delve into the depths of our design archives to revisit the Umbraco UK Fest designs over the past 7 years. Read blog Design UX Design Through Creative Sprints The point of UX design is its dedication to listening to other people. Read blog Strategy Embarrassing Content Don’t worry, we’ve seen it all before… Read blog News Codegarden 2018 Roundup Super Tak, Super Skål and everything in between Read blog Build Showcase: Storm's Social Reach Feature As #LFW fills up our social media feeds, we’re taking a look at our most fashionable project yet. Read blog Build Time for an Umbraco Upgrade? Cogworks’ give you the lowdown on why you should be updating your installation of Umbraco. Read blog Build Introducing the Meganav Package A flexible, draggable link picker for constructing site navigation menus in Umbraco 7 Read blog Strategy Top 3 Reasons to Involve Your Content Team Early Here's why you should get your content team involved early on in a project. Read blog Build One Media Indexer to Rule Them All A reboot of the CogUmbracoExamineMediaIndexer package. Read blog Strategy Running Agile Retrospectives Cogworks favourite Scrum meeting - the retrospective. Read blog Strategy Umbraco, CMS of Choice for Content Editors The best content editing features in the Umbraco CMS. Read blog Strategy Five Umbraco Sites Making the World a Better Place Take a look at Umbraco users who are making a real difference with the World's friendliest CMS. Read blog Build Find and Replace Package How we created the Find and Replace Umbraco Package. Read blog Build How Umbraco Changed My Life Have you ever stopped to imagine the way the software we use could change a life? Read blog Ready to collaborate ? Get in touch to see how we can transform your digital presence. Send us a message Email info@wearecogworks.com info@wearecogworks.com 020 8938 3622 Umbraco Gold Partner PRIVACY POLICY © The Cogworks Limited 2021