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Designing a better grants database

A collaborative process paved the way for substantial usability improvements and a tighter connection with the site’s overall content strategy.

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Most philanthropy websites miss these five opportunities

Doing social good starts with good communication, particularly on the web. Here are five ways philanthropies can communicate more effectively with their target audiences.

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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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Embrace the matrix: 3 unexpected ways a RACI can bring clarity and speed to your work

From staff onboarding to proposals and process documentation, the RACI matrix isn’t just for project managers.

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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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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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How to successfully manage a web content migration project

Discover the tips, tools, and techniques to maintain your sanity and launch on schedule.

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Angela Wolak to speak at Sitecore Symposium

Her talk will focus on how to create an inclusive web experience and provide practical advice on where to begin.

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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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New website, new process

A new content management system brings new features and flexibility—and places new demands on your digital team. Learn what to expect and how to get ready.

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User experience design

Angela Wolak collaborates on new Sitecore UX4CX whitepaper

The whitepaper, published by Sitecore, details how to plan, design, and execute personalized experiences using the platform's robust experience marketing features.

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Put people at the heart of technical change

To reduce the risks of launching new technology, your team needs to be ready for new ways of working. Prepare to manage the change with these four ideas.

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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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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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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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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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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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Introducing Agile to a waterfall culture: five strategies to get buy-in

Building trust and overcoming organizational inertia are fundamental to adopting Agile practices.

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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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Being supportive

The one thing we believe in most.

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GDPR and a better digital experience

Step back from a compliance mindset to seize these three opportunities to strengthen your brand and customer experience.

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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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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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A Durable brand manifesto

What we know and what we believe.

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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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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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An international perspective

Our way of working demands constant dialogue between our London, New York, and Washington DC offices, and as a result, injects an international perspective into everything we do.

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The tweetable survey

How often do you see a news story about a website survey? Ford Foundation's Un-Survey turned the traditional online survey on its ear by asking website visitors to pose questions to the foundation rather than the other way around.

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The role of brand attributes in web design

Brand strategy and digital strategy are similar in many ways—they share the same goals, perspectives and tools—but because they live in different “worlds” the disciplines rarely cross paths.