The Cheeky Monkey Media Blog
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Web Development
What Makes a Higher Education Website Get Results
February 2, 2022 / Treena Bjarnason Modern digital tools and websites have helped to bring the higher education sector into the future. In fact, a website is often the most important tool for an educational organization, whether it be to disseminate information or host online learning mo… Read more
4 Ways to Budget for a Drupal 9/10 Migration
February 2, 2022 / Treena Bjarnason Just so you’ve got a brief backstory and timeline for the last few years of Drupal platform updates: Back in September 2018, Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead of Drupal announced: “Drupal 7 will be end-of-life in November 2022, Drupal 9 will be… Read more
Headless vs Traditional CMS Website Development – Is It Worth the Cost?
January 28, 2022 / Treena Bjarnason There are many different types of Content Management Systems (CMS) available to those looking to build a great website. However, there are 2 primary forms that are the most popular; traditional CMS and headless CMS. What’s the difference between tradit… Read more
Drupal 10 Is on Its Way: How You Can Prepare
January 26, 2022 / Treena Bjarnason The next evolution of Drupal is just around the corner! The Cheeky Monkey Media team is breaking down everything you need to know, including when Drupal 10 is being released, a summary of the new features, and how you can prepare your Drupal site for t… Read more
Cheeky Monkey Media Adopt-a-Primate Initiative
January 24, 2022 / Treena Bjarnason Our world is a little bananas right now. The global Covid-19 pandemic may have been introduced into our lives in 2020, but it’s still very present in 2022 and has made these last 2 years quite a thing, yes? At Cheeky Monkey Media (CMM), fortunately, pr… Read more
Why Prototypes Will Transform Your Web Project’s Results
January 12, 2022 / Ashley Olsen What’s a Prototype in the World of Websites? The world of prototypes is a big one, and depending on the industry you’re in, “prototype” can mean different things. In UX and web design, there are a couple of different types of prototypes that you might… Read more
5 Advantages of a UX Designer/Project Manager Hybrid
December 20, 2021 / Treena Bjarnason So here’s the thing, I love my job. (I promise my boss isn’t holding a gun to my head as I write this.) I do, genuinely, love my job. The reason? Because I get to be both a UX Designer and Project Manager for clients. And there are a ton of advantages… Read more
Why Cheeky Monkey Media is All In on WebOps
December 8, 2021 / Treena Bjarnason No One Wants a Drill “People want a hole in a wall, not a drill. The same goes for websites. People don’t want a website, they want the results a website can give.” And thus begins the story of why Cheeky Monkey Media is all in on WebOps. If you’re not… Read more
User Stories are the Rosetta Stone to Becoming Tech-lingual
November 29, 2021 / Ashley Olsen Communicating your ideas clearly to the production team assigned to your project can sometimes be difficult. Things can easily get lost in translation throughout the process if the three main pillars – the designer, developer(s), and client – don’t est… Read more
May the Power of Website Maintenance Compel You
November 8, 2021 / Treena Bjarnason You know what’s more terrifying than those creepy clowns that come out on Halloween? Building a website, and then not maintaining it. The horrors! ???? Companies that don’t understand the power of website maintenance are missing out on how to make thei… Read more
What Makes a Good Host vs Bad Host (Web Provider, that is)
November 1, 2021 / Treena Bjarnason You’ve seen the ads. And it seems like you can get web hosting from just about anywhere. With so many options, how do you even start to figure out what your best bet is, and how to tell what makes a good web host vs a bad host?!? Well, you’re off to a… Read more