Brightspot employee Mark Hoover

Mark Hoover

Director, Digital Content

Mark is Director, Digital Content at Brightspot. When he’s not gleaning insights from various developers from the company, he spends his time cooking new dishes at home with his wife and two hyperactive cats.

Mark Hoover’s articles on Brightspot

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Technology insights

Brightspot Dari: The underlying methodology behind Brightspot

With Brightspot, we take a different approach that combines a more intuitive architecture and flexibility to drive your business forward. And that’s thanks to Dari, a principle that has made Brightspot CMS what it is today.
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Technology insights

The lowdown on low-code platforms and how to choose the right one

Some companies need all hands on deck with a no-code platform; others may want more granular control with a low-code platform. Which works better for your organization?
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Headless CMS

What are the pros and cons of headless CMS vs. other CMS architecture approaches?

Explore headless CMS pros and cons, including scalability, content reuse and implementation challenges. A practical guide for teams planning modern CMS architecture.
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CMS insights

Launch fast and customize — with or without code — with Brightspot’s Design System

Brightspot’s new Design System offers hundreds of pre-built templates, styles and interactions that let CMS users get started fast, plus makes it easy to customize your digital experiences with or without code.
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Technology insights

Creating and managing API endpoints with Brightspot’s editorial UI

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Technology insights

Deploying a new list style based on an existing one

Brightspot’s standard theme includes front-end templates for attractively rendering articles, videos, listicles, promos, and much more. Developers can build on those standard templates to deploy themes that range from simple to extravagant.
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Technology insights

Taking your first steps in rapid front-end development with Styleguide

Customizing a theme is a big part of front-end development. To facilitate that development, Brightspot provides Styleguide, a webpack-based application that previews a theme with mock text and images. With Styleguide you can immediately evaluate any change by reloading the browser page.
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CMS insights

Inside Brightspot’s packaged debugging tools

A list of tools that developers have at their disposal with every implementation of Brightspot
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CMS insights

Querying external libraries with Brightspot’s integrated search capability

Reduce context switching and gain time back for a quicker turnaround of content
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Headless CMS

10 questions to answer as you shift to headless CMS

Headless CMS offers a future-proofed framework in our evolving digital age, and the developer flexibility, personalized content capabilities and speedy content delivery offered through headless give companies a competitive edge. Here are 10 things to consider as you consider shifting to headless CMS.

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