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

illustration depicting difference between low-code and no-code web platforms

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?

Headless CMS

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

Learn the difference between headless CMS, decoupled CMS and traditional CMS architecture, as well as the pros and cons for each.

illustration showing different capabilities of the Brightspot Design System

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.

Technology insights

Creating and managing API endpoints with Brightspot’s editorial UI

example of List Module as seen in Brightspot CMS Styleguide

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.

example of a customized list shown in the Brightspot CMS Styleguide

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.

CMS insights

Inside Brightspot’s packaged debugging tools

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

CMS insights

Querying external libraries with Brightspot’s integrated search capability

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

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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Technology insights

What are webhooks, and how do they work?

A term coined in 2007, a webhook allows different apps to send user-defined callbacks to one another via HTTP POST requests. In plainer English, webhooks allow notifications to be sent from one app to another app when a certain event occurs.