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Design ·

Why and How to Design for Accessibility

Making your website or app more accessible makes it more useful for everyone.

By Rex Rainey//

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Events ·

Join BizStream at Kontent.ai Horizons!

Meet us at Kontent.ai Horizons, the content management event of 2022!

By Michelle Lentz//

Advice ·

Essential Web Dev Accessibility Resources

Learn how to develop and test your websites to ensure they are accessible in this blog post.

By Tyler Stirtz//

Advice ·

Question Everything

What makes working with and for BizStream is that it’s full of like-minded individuals who love to try new things. Some of our experiments fail. Most succeed.

By Josh Rubino//

Events ·

Brian McKeiver Speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2022

Level up your skills as Microsoft, industry, and partner experts guide you through the latest technology with immersive demos and live sessions at Microsoft Ignite.

By Michelle Lentz//

Design ·

Figma + Adobe and the Future of UX Design Tools

As creatives, we use our preferred design tools every day. We rely on them and put a lot of trust in them. So, when they change, it can be jarring. Here are my thoughts on the merge.

By Rex Rainey//

Kontent.ai ·

BizStream Gains Kontent.ai Partner Content Modeling Competency

The Content Modeling certification acknowledges BizStream as qualified in delivering high-quality, future-proof projects with excellent user experience.

By Michelle Lentz//

Awards ·

BizStream Announced as a 2022 Michigan’s Best and Brightest in Wellness Winner

Best and Brightest winning companies are a community of leaders dedicated to creating a sustainable culture that works and ensuring the well-being of their employees come first.

By Michelle Lentz//

Kentico ·

Kentico Page Builder Section: One to Rule Them All (Variable Section)

In this blog post, Ian explains how to utilize Kentico 13’s property visibility conditions to only show the properties that content admins need to see.

By Ian TeGrootenhuis//

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Tutorials ·

Timer Triggered Azure Functions in C# with .NET 6

This post will explore Azure Functions, a serverless approach using .NET, and more.

By Sean Lakies//

Events ·

Brian McKeiver Speaking at Atlanta Developers’ Conference

Atlanta Developers' Conference is the largest developer community event in Atlanta.

By Michelle Lentz//

Dunk tank at BizStream's 21st Birthday Bash

Events ·

BizStream Celebrated 21 Years With a Carnival-Themed Birthday Bash!

Our 21st birthday was a day to remember! Keep scrolling to read all about it.

By Michelle Lentz//

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Awards ·

BizStream Named One of Crain’s Detroit’s 2022 Cool Places to Work

For the second year in a row, BizStream ranked in Crain's Detroit's 2022 Cool Places to Work list! Keep reading to find out where we placed this year.

By Michelle Lentz//

Tutorials ·

Creating Kontent.ai Custom Elements

This blog post will teach you how to create custom elements within Kontent.ai.

By Mike Webb//

Kentico ·

How to Secure Your Kentico Xperience Site With Content Security Policy

In this blog post, I will outline what I’ve done to solve the issue of applying CSP headers to a pre-existing site.

By Nick Kooman//

Events ·

Brian McKeiver Speaking at Beer City Code

Beer City Code is an annual conference for software developers held in Grand Rapids, MI, also known as Beer City, USA.

By Michelle Lentz//

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Advice ·

3 Skills Every Junior Developer Needs to Succeed

What really is expected of a junior web developer? It’s been over six months since my first day as a junior web developer at BizStream, and I’m here to give you some tips.

By Parker Ovadek//

Advice ·

Balancing Our Proven Processes With Customer Needs

Just as important as it is to determine what we are building, it is also essential to figure out how we will work together to make the project successful.

By Mike Kren//

Events ·

Brian McKeiver Speaking at THAT Conference

Join Brian McKeiver, for his talk State-of-the-art Search with Azure Cognitive Search at THAT Conference.

By Michelle Lentz//

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Advice ·

Say Goodbye to Universal Analytics, Say Hello to Google Analytics 4

In July 2023, Universal Analytics (UA) – the version of Google Analytics we have depended on for around 10 years will stop processing hits.

By Dave Valko//

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Tutorials ·

Boost Your Productivity With a Custom Application Switcher

Learn how to boost your productivity and manage your time more efficiently by using a custom application switcher that is easy to build, even easier to use, and completely free.

By Tyler Pfohl//

Events ·

Brian McKeiver Speaking at Global Azure 2022

Join Brian McKeiver for his talk, High Availability with Azure PaaS for Websites, at Global Azure.

By Michelle Lentz//

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Advice ·

Building Your Brand Online

Determining who you are as a company and what you stand for becomes the foundation for establishing the rest of your brand.

By Rex Rainey//

Kentico ·

How We Handle Project Deployments

In this blog post, I'll first briefly cover our development process from a high level so you can see where deployments fit into the big picture, and then we’ll dig into the technical details of deployments.

By Dustin Christians//

Advice ·

Simplifying User Stories and Acceptance Criteria With Templates and Automation

In this blog post, I'll share a helpful template for capturing user stories, acceptance criteria, and other information needed for a project feature.

By Chris Hamm//

Kentico ·

Brian McKeiver Announced as a 2022 Kentico Xperience MVP

We're happy to share that BizStream Co-owner Brian McKeiver is a Kentico Xperience MVP!

By Michelle Lentz//

Advice ·

Five Reasons I Love Working at BizStream: A Developer’s Perspective

One of the ways we’ve always attempted to attract talent was with our outstanding company culture, and I’d love to share my top 5 reasons why I love working at BizStream.

By Ben Buurstra//

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Advice ·

My Transition From Childhood Development to Software Development

Learn about Josh Gallentine's impressive journey from applied behavior analyst - to a stained glass artist - to tech guru!

By Josh Gallentine//

Tutorials ·

Integrating ASP.NET Core and Vue.js

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to integrate ASP.NET Core and Vue.js so I thought I'd share my knowledge with you!

By Nick Kooman//

Advice ·

Positivity and its Impact on Work Culture

At BizStream, a positive workplace is extremely important.

By Sean Lakies//