Episerver (now Optimizely) Tips & Tricks - 2020

Tips and tricks for working with Episerver, a powerful platform that is a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms. It provides a strong foundation with a low total cost of ownership to deliver personalized content and commerce experiences for customers. With great power comes great responsibility. And now, more than ever, organizations need marketing and development teams that can react quickly and push new releases out fast. 

In this week’s webinar, we were joined by our lead developer, Drew Douglas. 

Join us to learn:

• Tips for how business users can support your development team in being more efficient
• 3 methods for troubleshooting in Episerver that can be leveraged by non-developers
• Tools and techniques your Episerver developers can be leveraging

00:00 Introductions

02:32 Why Episerver is Great

05:19 Troubleshoot Content

07:56 Troubleshoot External Data

10:31 Users & Roles

11:39 Bug Reports

15:35 Debugging in Episerver

17:04 Site Speed in Episerver

19:47 Epi Learning Curve / Come Back Stronger

23:20 Underutilized Features

27:12 Mentoring Developers

29:30 Sources

Drew graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science with a focus on programming languages and compiler technology. During his career, his development work has utilized many technologies, including ASP.NET Forms and MVC, NServiceBus, and REACT.

He specializes in B2B eCommerce development with ERP integrations and is an Episerver Certified Developer, as well as a Microsoft Certified Professional (Microsoft HTML5 with JavaScript & CSS3 Certification). As a Lead Developer at Brilliance, Drew serves as a technical lead and architect on Episerver projects.

Drew lives in Milwaukee with his wife, 3 kids, and their terrier/beagle/whippet, Lucy.

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