One standard bit of functionality that most sites want / have is a list of either footer links or “quick links” or maybe sidebar links. The tendency is just to create a block and hard code your values in, but…
Please, Keep Control of Your Domain Names
It’s a big unnerving how often I come across a small business owner who has a website but they have no idea who owns the domain name they make their living off of. “My IT guy set it up” “I…
Create Custom Navigation Blocks
Everyone has a top/primary navigation set of links on their site. In ServiceNow CMS it’s pretty easy to just use one of the out-of-box headers and utilize a navigation menu. However, the challenge comes when you want something that isn’t…
Customize the ServiceNow Editor for Style Control
There is nothing worse than spending hours developing a beautiful theme with finely tuned CSS files only to have someone come along, overriding the font, size or color from within the HTML editor. Yes, it is WYSIWYG, but sometimes “what…
How to Use MailChimp with Wordress
MailChimp is one of the best email marketing platforms out there, in my opinion. There are others of course (Constant Contact, Infusionsoft, etc.) but I’ve found MailChimp to be the most approachable. Why use MailChimp with WordPress? As many have…
Getting Google Analytics to Work with ServiceNow CMS
Everyone loves them some analytics, definitely brought up in every single conversation I have around CMS. ServiceNow does an okay job of providing some insight, but it’s not usually to the level that people want or expect from a front-end…
Is the ServiceNow CMS a *Real* CMS?
The short answer is: it depends. It depends on what you mean and what you are expecting. If you compare NOW’s CMS to WordPress, it’s actually pretty close. Instead of Posts, you have Knowledge articles. They both have Pages. Where…
