ProWorks Corporation is honored and excited to be awarded as an Umbraco Contributing Partner again in 2023! We have been a contributing partner in 2020, 2021, 2022, and now 2023!   Read more about the Contribution Partner award and the list of key Agency Partners who made the list: Announcing: Umbraco Contributing Partners 2023 Much like an MVP badge for agencies, the Contributing Partner status signifies a commitment beyond the ordinary. These agencies have gone the extra mile, contributing to our open-source project and community in various ways, such as organizing events, creating docu ..read more

In October 2023, Umbraco HQ brought together enthusiasts, developers, and businesses at the Umbraco U.S. Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina. The multi-day conference featured a diverse lineup of events, including a Community day, Business day, and Partner day. Among the standout sessions was the talk by Jason Prothero and Paul Sterling titled "An Unconventional Alliance: Building a Bespoke Design System with Umbraco and BlockList Components."   Unfortunately, the Community Day presentations weren't recorded, so Paul and Jason got together and recorded their session for people who were no ..read more

ProWorks President, Jason Prothero, has been selected to help guide the Umbraco CMS into the future by contributing to the Umbraco CMS Community Team.  He will be a part of a group of community advisors that the Umbraco Core team can bounce ideas off of and get feedback from. Read more about the Umbraco CMS Community Team here: The CMS Community Team "The CMS Community Team is a group of people who contributes to the development of the Umbraco CMS by acting as a sounding board and a forum for the Umbraco CMS team, where more high-level ideas, roadmap, and strategy can be discussed. We’ll ..read more

Building the USDA ARS Scientific Discoveries site using the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) was a great experience for us, and that work has not gone unnoticed because they've added that site to the list of USWDS powered sites! This list is a compilation of the best of the best USWDS sites as examples for others to use, and we could not be more happy to be included! I looked through all of these sites when I was gathering inspiration to design the USDA ARS Scientific Discoveries site, and hopefully now I can pass that inspiration forward to the next designer. we learned much about the USWDS and ..read more

The ProWorks team has been elevated by the addition of Jessica as a Project Manager. Her striking blend of education, professional and life experience is sure to enhance ProWorks and our clients.   Jessica hails from a tradition of women who have forged their own paths, and boldly created their own places in the universe. Jessica has been managing a variety of projects most of her life, including musical groups, weddings, cycling events and websites.   Jessica’s combination of real-world business acumen and educational background is remarkable. She earned her moniker “Rocket Qu ..read more

Look forward to more details coming, but here are links to the code and site: Front-end Website: https://cg2021.proworks.com/ Front-end Code: https://github.com/ProworksDevTeam/CG2021-HeadlessUnicore-Website/ Back-end Code: https://github.com/ProworksDevTeam/CG2021-HeadlessUnicore-Backend ..read more

The new Block List Editor from Umbraco is out! It's cool because it enables a component-based editing experience. Why should you care? It is a win-win for content editors and developers. The Block List Editor allows editors more control over each page to customize the look and feel on a page by page basis. Developers get to focus more time on creating useful building blocks for editors and less time modelling content to create specific Document Types. And designers get to ensure that the content is accessible and adheres to the style guide.   Join us for the Umbraco US Festival on April 1 ..read more

Welcome to the fourth part of our series on "How To Setup An Umbraco .NET Core Headless CMS Using Gridsome and Vue.js With Automated Deployment"! You now have a site that updates all the static content, and displays it on the front-end in near-real-time.  The next step then is to allow for dynamic content, such as searching.  We are going to setup searching using an online search provider called Algolia.  The back-end will push content into Algolia as it is published, and the front-end will query Algolia through JavaScript to get the latest results. Download Required Files This ..read more

Welcome to the third part of our series on "How To Setup An Umbraco .NET Core Headless CMS Using Gridsome and Vue.js With Automated Deployment"! Now we tie the Umbraco Back-end to the Gridsome Front-end and make the entire process work from end to end. This includes setting up the Vue.js rendering of Umbraco content and auto-deploying content changes from Umbraco to Azure. Download Required Files This step uses a few files that need to be added to your project.  Rather than try to inline the source in the article, we've bundled them as a ZIP file here.  Please download this ZIP file ..read more

Welcome to the second part of our series on "How To Setup An Umbraco .NET Core Headless CMS Using Gridsome and Vue.js With Automated Deployment"! This post is focused on the back-end of the Headless architecture. The back-end is where the website content is edited using the Umbraco Content Management System (CMS).  We walk through the setup of the Umbraco back-end, the Azure SQL database to store the content, and how to host it on an Azure Web App. Create Azure Resources The steps below assume that you have an Azure Portal account setup and a Resource Group ready that you can add Resourc ..read more