1. ACCELERATE YOUR SITECORE WEBSITE DELIVERY WITH SITECORE SXA
Chaturanga Ranatunga
Date: May 16, 2019

2. About me Chaturanga Ranatunga Freelance Sitecore Consultant
Sitecore Technology MVP 2019 – 2016
Sri Lanka
Sitecore 6.4 & 9.0 Certified
Building Sitecore solutions from 2010 (10 years experience)
Blog -
YouTube Channel – Sitecore for Dummies -

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Introduction to SXA Site building Timelapse
What tools used for the site build
Introduction to SXA
Some cool features of SXA
Benefits of using SXA
How to Get Start?

4. DEMO
In this demo I have try to create a simple website using SXA and investigate how much time it will take for a beginner level SXA developer to build the website.
Screen Record

5. Demo – What you see XSplit – for screen record
iMovie – for editing the Video
8x Speed
SXA 1.8
Sitecore 9.1

6. Sitecore eXperience Accelerator
Set of pre-build tools
Helix Compliant
Export/Import for Digital Agency packages
Mobile First
Drag and drop editor experience

7. Few of the tools comes with SXA
Meta Data
Google Analytics
Social Share
Favicon ….
Sitemap.xml
Robots.txt
Redirects

8. SXA Dev Process Normal Sitecore Dev Process Visual Design FrontEnd
BackEnd
Image taken from
Content

9. Benefits
Accelerate the delivery of sites using standard functionality with minimum-to-no CMS development.
Enable different work streams to run in parallel.
Upgrades are just installing a package
No testing required for default component code
Provides lot of PowerShell scripts that make lot of tasks easy
Ex: Security setup, Tenants/Site creation, etc
Provides lots of common user functionality be default
Ex: Redirects, 404 module, etc

10. More about Demo Experience Level :
Backend Dev : SXA Beginner (3-4 days playing with SXA)
Frontend Dev : New to Sitecore
Without SXA
SXA
Backend/Content
~16-20 hours
2.5 hours
Frontend
60 hours
45 minutes (to get basic design done)

11. How To Get Start ?
Install SXA Showcase Package and Investigate the implementation (similar to launchSitecore)
YouTube Videos
Sitecore Slack SXA Channel & Sitecore StackExchange
Blog post about Showcase SXA Package :