Edward Hewitt

Foundations

February 07, 2020

How and when to use animations

Hjörtur Hilmarsson, CEO and co-founder of 14islands, stopped by the Prismic Studio to explain how and when animations can improve UX.

When you build anything, the ideal situation is to be able to choose the tools, services, and technologies that are most suited to each individual requirement. In fact, it’s this concept that leads many website developers to go ‘headless’ with their CMS.

Prismic People

November 04, 2020

Slice Machine update: Slice Builder and a Slice Contest

Since its launch back in May, we have been overwhelmed by the level of support and excitement that Slice Machine has received from the community. This support has not only helped us to get the project off the ground, but also helped us to identify areas where Slice Machine can be improved.

Prismic People

October 05, 2020

Webinar with Arkade: aligning content, commerce, and customer

The expectations for eCommerce websites have quickly evolved and visitors now expect something more than a catalog that lists products. With online orders now becoming the default purchase method for many people, companies are having to figure out how they can tell their brand story and improve the visitor experience without complicating the buying process.

Optimization

September 25, 2020

Webinar with Tim Benniks: from a monolithic CMS to microservices

There's no denying it. Microservices are becoming increasingly popular. This switch has resulted in the boom in SaaS companies and, within web development, has driven the increasing number of CMS options and movements like Jamstack.

At our live product meet-up in August, Sadek and Renaud spoke to our users about the future of Slices. Slices is one of our most popular features and a reason why many of our users opt for Prismic as their CMS and it is a feature that we are continuously looking to improve.

Prismic People

July 17, 2020

Gatsby-Prismic plugins: what’s going on?

N.b. The recommendations in this article are only relevant for Prismic users that are still using the gatsby-source-prismic-graphql plugin. This is no longer our recommended solution for projects with Prismic and Gatsby.

Prismic People

June 11, 2020

Development environments: a sandbox where you can test, try, and iterate safely

Few things are more important for your website development and maintenance than knowing that you can safely iterate and test new features without putting your live website at risk. But, fear no more, with Prismic’s new development environments feature you can easily clone your production environment and work on new iterations and designs in a separate and safe development environment.

Foundations

January 20, 2020

Emma Wedekind's journey to programming: from Java to React

Emma is a Software Engineer based out of Karlsruhe, Germany, currently leading a Design System at LogMeIn. She was born and raised in Upstate New York. Emma graduated from Siena College in Albany with a B.S. in Computer Science and moved to Austin, Texas, for three years where she worked as an engineer at IBM on Quantum Computing.

In the face of overwhelming popular demand, we have finally given the people what they want and made it possible to use Boolean Fields in Prismic. OK...so this isn't the most exciting piece of news that we've ever told you about, but we know that a lot of people out there will be very happy to hear it.

The day that you have all been waiting for has finally arrived - we're giving you more control over your webhooks! Go on, go to your settings and spend the afternoon playing around with your configurations, there's no one here to stop you.

Prismic People

August 14, 2019

Prismic Image Optimization with imgix

We've partnered with Imgix to provide Prismic users with image optimization, next-gen image support, and an improved interface that will give them greater control when cropping and editing their images.

Optimization

June 07, 2019

How Ueno chose their framework and why they went with Gatsby

In our latest video with Birkir, he and Sadek discuss how Ueno chose their framework and why they went with Gatsby. Choosing Gatsby and staying React-based allows for a component-based approach that makes it easy for projects to be divided whilst still allowing developers to easily collaborate and work independently. Their preference for a component-based approach is one of the main reasons that they like using Prismic as a CMS.

A lot of articles like this will start with the company trashing their competitors and proclaiming themselves to be the one true solution. That isn’t how we work.

Optimization

May 12, 2019

What is Serverless - Episode 5: Building a fast website

In the final episode from our What is Severless series, Guillermo from Zeit explains how using Severless can help you to build a fast website. Integrate with any framework, mix static and dynamic, and deploy everything at once.

Foundations

May 09, 2019

3 Things I wish I'd known when starting with React

React has became one of the most used frameworks in the Javascript community. For beginners, learning React can seem overwhelming as it involves trying to navigate a world of libraries, plugins, dev tools, new features. But don't stress. To help you get started, Kitze joined us in the Prismic studios to share his most useful tips for beginners.

Foundations

May 06, 2019

What is Serverless - Episode 4: Developer experience and Collaboration opportunities

In this episode from the Serverless series, Guillermo and Sadek discuss the Serverless developer experience. Guillermo explains how using Severless can improve the developer experience in a number of ways - including through instant deployments, reduced cost, easy rollbacks, and better collaboration.

Foundations

May 01, 2019

What is Serverless - Episode 3: Deploying applications globally

In Episode 3 from our Serverless series, Sadek and Guillermo discuss how Serverless allows you to deploy applications globally by having smart/application-aware CDNs.

Foundations

April 24, 2019

What is serverless - Episode 2: Scaling your application

In Episode 2 from our Serverless series, Sadek, from Prismic, and Guillermo, from Zeit, discuss how Serverless allows you to scale your application both when you experience peaks of traffic and when you only have a few people coming to your app.

Foundations

April 22, 2019

How to choose a tech stack for your website - Episode 2: Exploring the frameworks landscape

This is a transcript from the second episode in our series on how to choose your tech stack. In this episode, Sadek and Nouha discuss how to choose your framework and look into the advantages of some of the most popular and commonly used frameworks.

Foundations

April 18, 2019

What is Serverless - Episode 1: Introduction

This is a transcript of a conversation between Guillermo Raugh, CEO of ZEIT, and Sadek, CEO of Prismic, about Serverless: what does it mean from a developer's point of view, how Serverless functions work, and how to manage the questions of state and startup time.

We know, we know, the internet loves Gatsby. The past 18 months have seen Gatsby become a developer favorite, with its market share increasing by over 7000% in the past 5 months alone.

We've all been there. You're looking over your website and realize that you need to update or correct some content - now you just need to find a way to edit the page.

Optimization

April 05, 2019

How to choose a tech stack for your website - Episode 1: Introduction

Not sure what the best build for your website is? Don't worry, you're not alone. Navigating the world of frameworks, technologies, and languages out there is not easy - even for experts - and each new build has new requirements. How to choose your tech stack is a question that we get a lot, so Nouha and Sadek decided to sit down in the Prismic Studio and share tips and advice on how to make your decisions.

Optimization

April 03, 2019

Choosing Next.js, TypeScript, and StoryBook for your Tech Stack

Here's a transcript of a video from our interview with Gary Meehan (front-end developer at Distilled SCH). In this video, Gary talks to Gabe from Prismic about how Distilled SCH manages their tech stack.

Sometimes we get to make big announcements that we think will revolutionize the CMS landscape and the way that you use our product…and other times we get to talk about small changes that will just make your life that little bit easier. This one is definitely the latter (but we do have big things planned for the near future, we promise).

Prismic People

March 01, 2019

Announcing our Freelancer Program

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We are happy to announce that we have officially launched our Prismic Freelancer Program. This community will help freelance developers that use Prismic to match with clients looking to complete a project. It is a place where developers can share their portfolios, exchange ideas, and give feedback. Where companies can look for experienced freelancers with the skills that they need.