How we repositioned Lombiq.com for the people who decide
Our website spoke to developers, but the people who decide on critical platforms usually represent different roles. Here’s how we rewrote Lombiq.com: message first, and the design second.
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Case studies, engineering notes, and practical lessons from web platforms that have to keep working while they change.
Blog posts
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Ten Years on Orchard: Upgrading Canopy Realtor Association to 1.11
Canopy Realtor® Association represents more than 13,000 Realtors® across Carolinas and beyond, with its subsidiary Canopy MLS serving more than 22,000 subscribers, serving buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals across three websites: CarolinaHome.com (the Association's main site), …
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Building Relationships Beyond Our Bubble: The Communities We Joined This Year
If you know Lombiq, you probably know us from GitHub, from the Orchard Core project itself, or from a developer conference. A chamber of commerce or a CMS industry panel isn't the first place you'd expect to find us. But over the past year, we joined five business and industry communities, and we …
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Integrate Microsoft login into your ASP.NET Core or Orchard Core application with ease
Why create separate accounts in different systems when you can use a single, trusted source for all of them? Instead of asking people to create yet another account, you can let them sign in with the Microsoft account they already use at work. This can be a Microsoft 365 account or an account …
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Managed CMS Hosting Now Available in the Microsoft Marketplace — Powered by DotNest
Microsoft customers worldwide can now discover and use DotNest, a fully managed website hosting platform, through Microsoft Marketplace, accessing trusted solutions that accelerate innovation and business transformation with unified integration across Microsoft products Budapest, Hungary — June 23, …
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Long-term Orchard Core maintenance for the City of Santa Monica
Back in 2021, we wrote about helping the City of Santa Monica move santamonica.gov from Orchard 1 to Orchard Core. Since then, we have continued working with the City's team. In the last couple of years, much of that work has been maintenance: upgrading Orchard Core, improving tests, making local …
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Rebuilding DotNest.com: Orchard Core, Tailwind 4, and a more maintainable workflow
DotNest is Lombiq’s managed Orchard Core hosting platform where users can create and run Orchard Core sites without handling infrastructure, updates, or maintenance themselves. We recently rebuilt the site to give DotNest a clearer presentation and a more modern user experience. By looking behind …
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Your analytics isn’t broken. It’s incomplete.
Web analytics is the foundation of modern marketing decisions. But today, a growing portion of user behavior simply doesn’t show up in your reports. Ad blockers, browser extensions, and privacy tools can strip tracking parameters or block analytics scripts entirely. The result is incomplete …
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Bringing Orchard Core into the classroom at Óbuda University
Since 2013, we’ve been working with Óbuda University on a hands-on way to teach web development. What began as a course built around Orchard CMS later evolved into an Orchard Core-based subject, giving students a chance to learn by building something that could actually work in the real world, not …
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Event management backend for one of the largest retailers
Avastec, a UK company, approached us to continue the development of their existing Orchard Core-based headless backend utilized by the event management site of one of the world's largest retailers. It was already in use with a publicly accessible Node.js-based frontend. The end client urgently …