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Choosing the right Sanity CMS Agency

Check out our complete spec for choosing an agency to help you build a Sanity CMS powered website. We go through all the pro's, con's and red flags to look out for. Don't worry, we're only slightly biased being an agency.

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Who Needs a Head? Headless CMS and the Race for Content Velocity

Discover how a headless CMS can boost your content velocity, streamline collaboration, and revolutionise content creation with structured content. Unleash the power of headless.

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Headless CMS Hot Takes

Oh boy, are we going to burn some bridges with this article. We'll give you our own honest takes on a whole bunch of different headless content management systems on the market

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Why Next.js keeps talking about Hydration issues

Why Next.js keeps talking about Hydration issues - we've probably got the fix for you. It's probably Next/Link.

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5 things we learnt by replacing all our blog posts with cats

Furry eldritch abominations to cuddly fluff balls, we discuss the leap we made to changing our entire blog images to a bunch of fluffy cats dressed in victorian clothing

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Sanity CMS Pricing: Which Plan is Right for You?

It's always hard to determine precisely what pricing bracket to go for when selecting a content management system. Should you stay lean and cheap or opt for the more expensive option? We break down Sanity's pricing and what's worthwhile.

We are Sanity Community Ambassadors

We can finally go nuts, upset our neighbours, and scream it from the rooftops. We're Sanity Community Ambassadors and want to keep pushing the envelope for standardisation, optimisation and composable architecture.

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Clean Your GROQ

Learn the best practices for cleaning Groq queries to improve data accuracy and speed up the query processing time. Discover tips for streamlining and optimizing your queries for maximum efficiency!

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Why do we always use Sanity on new sites?

We take a deep dive into schema as code, performance and why we're building all of our new projects in the exact same CMS

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What are the benefits of using a "headless" CMS?

We've compiled a list of benefits and disadvantages of using a headless CMS. Whether you're considering moving your architecture to headless or simply dipping your toes and seeing if it's the right choice for you. We've got you covered.

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Getting the hang of Sanity's Parameterized Templates

Learn about the power of Sanity's Parameterized Templates, the ultimate solution for making content management simple and effective. Your content creation process will become dynamic with customizable initial values, saving you time and effort while ensuring that each piece of content meets your specific requirements. Sanity's Parameterized Templates can help you improve your content management strategy right away.

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11 top tips for SEO with Sanity & Next.js

We blast through our 11 top tips for improving Next.js & Sanity workflows. Harvest those low-hanging fruits, empower your content editors and ultimately climb your way inch by inch to the top of the SERP

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Revolutionizing Visual Content Creation with Sanity.io and OpenAI

Discover how Sanity.io and OpenAI are revolutionizing visual content creation with AI-generated images. Learn how to integrate OpenAI's API into Sanity Studio for seamless image generation from text prompts. Boost your website's visual appeal and user experience with this cutting-edge technology.

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Sanity top tip: the Grandma test

Whether you're a veteran at building Sanity schema or brand new to it. We go through our first top tip when writing schema for your project. Yes you heard that right: Write schema for Grandma.

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Getting online in the fastest way possible

Want to get yourself online in record time, we've got just the guide for you. In our opinion it's the best way to start if you're looking at testing the waters.

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Tips and tricks for building Sanity schema efficiently

Whether it's a page builder you're looking to create, or an article with authors, read time etc. We've got the starting point for you with this Sanity schema tips and tricks.

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Dynamic open graph images with Sanity & Next.js

Looking to get dynamic open graph images working with your Sanity & Next.js website? We explain the steps to create truly dynamic images for your future blogs.

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Top 10 CMS of 2023 and why we think Sanity is leading the way

Looking for the best Content Management System for your website in 2023? Look no further! Our top 10 list will guide you to make the right decision for your business.

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How a headless CMS can help you scale a website

Let's talk about how a headless CMS provides near-endless scaling ability, and how it achieves this through the power of "decoupling", don't worry it's not nearly as exciting as it sounds.

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Considering moving to Sanity CMS?

We're hastily approaching 2023 and the one question is on everybody's lips... When are we going to move the company website to Sanity CMS? Well it's a great question and hopefully we can provide some astute answers.

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Ultimate guide to building your first website

This is the guide to end all guides for building your first website. Whether you've barely got two pennies to rub together, or a six figure marketing budget, we've got a solution for you.

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Why we spent a bunch of time stripping out dark mode

Here's a hot take, dark mode is meant for web apps. Also Wikipedia should feel ashamed for not adopting a Dark mode, because it burns my eyes.

Incoherent Rant

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How Sanity handles your data

We go through all the security certs and accreditations that make Sanity a league of their own when it comes to data protection.

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What Sanity Studio v3 means for clients

Guess what, Sanity V3 is soon to be on the horizon. With a host of new changes to build systems, UI overhauls and even a dark mode, we go through what actually matters, and try and keep it simple.

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Next.js 13 what it actually means for clients

A brief layman’s run down of Next.js 13, we demystify what the new layouts RFC means for you, how next/image and next/links affects more than you think & self hosted fonts!

We are Sanity Agency Partners 🎉

What do you know... We're Sanity Agency Partners. Pairing the best of the best Content Management Systems with an extremely performant frontend gives you the best Web Experience.

We are Vercel experts 🎉

Well it's been a long-time coming, but now we can officially shout it from the rooftops, post panflets through our neighbours doors, and otherwise irritate people on Linkedin.

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Our experiences with Sanity V3 Developers Preview

With Sanity releasing their brand new V3 Studio, we thought we'd write up a little walkthrough from our experiences.

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Website Agony Aunt

We go through a full mixed bag of questions we've recieved from enquiries, clients and everything in-between. We delve into JAMstack, Wordpress & Budget builds

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Our Next.js Oct Conference Predictions

We're going to get our "mystic meg" on and try and predict the future of the Next.js conference.

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How to transfer from Wordpress to JAMstack fast!

Migrating over to JAMstack from Wordpress with ease, using an incredible tool called Stackbit

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A very brief introduction to JAMstack

Quick-fire introduction to JAMstack, what you have to know, what perks, and ultimately, why bother?

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3 Gatsby plugins to check out

A quick-fire set of plugins that we wished we had known about earlier. Probably save you an hour or two.

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Why Figma Variant components blew our mind

The latest and greatest functionality released by Figma to help with scaling a fully functional design system