The Cheeky Monkey Media Blog
A few words from the apes, monkeys, and various primates that make up the Cheeky Monkey Super Squad.
General
The importance of strategic planning for your website
February 10, 2015 / Rick Bjarnason So you have finally decided to create a new website, but you soon realize there is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million things for you to understand and organize before you can get started. For instance, do you have a domain name? Hosting? Conte… Read more
Avoiding common mistakes – admin menu
January 20, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason The drupal admin menu module is something I use every day. Recently, I ran into a problem with it. I needed to give some users access to some specific menu items, however, no matter what I did, that particular user role could not see the menu items. It… Read more
4 proven ways to save on website cost estimates
December 5, 2014 / Rick Bjarnason It is no secret that Drupal is transitioning, or already transitioned, to an enterprise solution. What this means is we are seeing larger and larger builds with massive budgets and hours. To muddy the waters even further we are dealing with clients tha… Read more
Confessions of a Tech Noob: The Power of Communication
October 14, 2014 / Treena Bjarnason There is one thing that is universal in all jobs. Communication. It doesn’t matter what your profession is when it comes to the importance of everyone understanding what the heck is going on. This is something I feel I have always been good at, and gre… Read more
8 Helpful Tips for Planning Your Web Project
October 7, 2014 / Rick Bjarnason Are you ready to start planning your website? Know now that there is a lot of upfront work needed to make sure your project is both successful and on time and within budget. Probably, the biggest question you will be asked to answer is, what is the pur… Read more
Confessions of a Tech Noob: 9 Months!
September 23, 2014 / Treena Bjarnason I am absolutely shocked that I have been a “noob” now for 9 months! I find myself taking things for granted that would have knocked my brain cells lose back in November. For example, I somehow managed to wipe my laptop clean of all of my “techie tools”… Read more
Defining variables in settings.php
September 11, 2014 / Treena Bjarnason If you’ve ever set up a drupal installation before, then you’re familiar with the settings.php file. This little file resides in the default folder on a typical drupal install. Normally, it’s only used to simply tell drupal about our database name and… Read more
Methodical Marketing
September 11, 2014 / Treena Bjarnason As I’m sure happens within most Sales & Marketing Departments, we here at Cheeky Monkey Media have been moving through a number of tasks, focuses, changes, strategies, and more. Some days, sitting down and going through a daily task list can read l… Read more
DrupalCon LA Experience
September 11, 2014 / Treena Bjarnason This year the North American DrupalCon was held in Los Angeles, from May 11 to May 15, and we sent a few of us down there to man our kickass booth, hand out t-shirts like a roadie at a 1 Direction concert, and shake a lot of hands. In my previous artic… Read more
Cheeky Monkey Media is coming to the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference
September 11, 2014 / Treena Bjarnason This year, Cheeky Monkey Media is attending the Nonprofit Technology Conference for the first time. The troop got so excited about the upcoming trip last week, that we decided to film a video introducing ourselves. https://www.youtube.com/embed/9s6h8I… Read more
IntentionJS and RequireJS – How monkeys do it (the sfw edit)
September 11, 2014 / Treena Bjarnason Prerequisites: RequireJS (and some knowledge of how to use it) IntentionJS A brain Bananas There are plenty of reasons you shouldn’t HAVE to use IntentionJS, but it’s just so good when you NEED your fix, of DOM manipulation. Normally a responsive websi… Read more