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User experience design

Our favorite accessibility tools

No single accessibility tool can do everything—check out Durable’s top five automated tools for accessibility testing.

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Engineering and development

Shane Marsden to judge 2019 Umbraco Awards

Durable Technical Director, Shane Marsden is one of three outside jurors for the Umbraco Awards.

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Some questions to ask for context marketing success

Successful context marketing isn’t driven by technology alone—organizations also need to be strategically and operationally ready.

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Being in balance

Great products can only be the result of a healthy dialogue between strategy, design and technology.

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Why we use Umbraco

We have embraced Umbraco as one of our core technologies because it can effectively address the needs of the enterprise.

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Simplifying paywalls and partial page access in Sitecore 

Improve the content editing experience and reduce errors by controlling access through Sitecore item security.

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Eating our own dog food

What happened when we turned the tables and followed our own advice to redesign our website.

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A survival guide for managing enterprise taxonomies on the web

Using a common set of taxonomies on your website, regardless of where the content originates, is essential for users to find what they need.

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Benefits of component-based CMS design

Conceptualizing a website as a flexible toolkit—rather than a set of pages—enables marketers and designers to continuously improve the web experience.

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Three takeaways from Sitecore Symposium 2018

Didn’t make it to Symposium this year? Check out what caught our attention at the breakout sessions.

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The double-edged sword of accessibility tools

Automated accessibility tools are great, but they can subtly influence your team’s process and expectations in ways that might negatively impact users.

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Umbraco workflow management and Plumber

Looking for flexible, multi-stage approval workflows in the Umbraco CMS? Learn why you might need the “Plumber” package and how to configure and customize it for your requirements.

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Durable wins 2022 Umbraco Award for Best Designed Site

The National Police Funding Database was also a finalist for “Best Editing Experience” and “Best Custom Solution.”

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Durable wins 2023 Umbraco Award for Best Custom Solution

Our work for Lazard was selected from 200 entries in this year’s awards. This is our second consecutive win—last year, we took home the prize for “Best Designed Site.”

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