When you are building a blog for a corporate website there are three fundamental decisions to make:

• Which CMS to use?
• How to design the UI of the blog?
• How to connect the two?

For Polipo, we wanted to select a solution that would be flexible to be managed by non technical people and flexible for the engineers implementing it.

Going for a Headless CMS

Technologies able to decouple the UI (the way the blog looks) from the backend (the way the content is managed) are on the rise.

We decided for Sanity because it gave us the flexibility to use it beyond our blog, as it is currently helping us manage all the content pages on our website.

His editing environment is incredibly powerful and allows a pretty significant level of customization.

How We Designed our Blog

We used Figma to design the UI of our app, combined with Polipo: that provided an interesting use case for our technology.

Normally you would have to redesign the page from scratch (maybe helped by a previous design system) involving a designer.

With Polipo it took less than 30 minutes of work to launch our blog.

We simply took elements from the existing design, we recomposed them to fit the purpose and, voilà, our blog was up and running.

Performance is king 👑

The fact both Polipo and Sanity integrate with Next.js enabled us to deploy a well performing blog.

We are happy if we will inspire other creators to use this powerful trio.

Sanity as a CMS, Figma as the UI.

All thanks to Polipo.

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