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Headless CMS

Foundations

Learn the key concepts and lingo with these posts that go a little deeper than just the basics.

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Ben Hofferber
Nancy Du
Ben Hofferber, Nancy Du

Headless CMS 101

Classic content management systems (CMSs) allowed authors to show up with their content without needing much help from developers or designers to update content on these sites. As time progressed, these CMSs became burdensome to those utilizing them. We see teams lack the flexibility to work with the tooling that they desire, leading to hiring challenges. Publishing slows, and time-to-market for new changes slows to a crawl. IT budget jumps as adaptations to configure custom solutions to solve business problems slow upgrades and further work. Customers struggle with longer load times and notice features missing compared to other newer sites.

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Rendering of Headless CMS playbook

Headless CMS playbook

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We partnered with Hims & Hers digitizes healthcare in the U.S. and U.K. with Contentful

Hims launched a sister site (Hers) and then went live with a regionalized U.K. site within 30 days!

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See how we helped Endy go Headless using Shopify and Sanity

Endy's new headless site was faster than 99% of all websites in the world, loading nearly 4x times faster than their Shopify website.

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Frontend Development

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Product & Platform Operating Model

Align teams around a product and platform model that supports real delivery speed.

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Within 7 weeks, we migrated and launched a US-based trading firm's website on Stackbit and Next.js. Without disrupting content production, we migrated over 500 pages, modernized the tech stack, and empowered content authors with a user-friendly authoring experience. The result was a fast, new site with a load speed of under one second.

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