The Cheeky Monkey Media Blog
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Web Development
Be Audit You Can Be
February 28, 2020 / Danielle Thornton What is the importance of an audit? More importantly, what is the difference between a content audit and a site audit, and how do they directly impact your website? Audits are particularly important to increase and enhance your user experience, in the… Read more
Your New Website & You: The Discovery Phase
January 7, 2020 / Treena Bjarnason You have come to the realization that you definitely need a new, better version of your website. But WHY? What is the driving force behind this decision for you and your business? Figuring out the WHY is the first step in the Discovery process, as no o… Read more
The Power of Page Builders
July 10, 2019 / Treena Bjarnason From the early days of the Net until recently, it took specialized knowledge to build a website. Taking your idea from a mental snapshot to reality meant you needed to know at least one coding language. You had to have the proper software to get your f… Read more
Maintenance Packages & Pontiacs
June 18, 2019 / Treena Bjarnason I drive a four-door 1999 Pontiac Sunfire. It’s white, covered in punk rock stickers, dents, scratches, and patches of rust. I call him Cooper, he’s the first car I ever owned, and I’ve grown pretty dang attached to it. I had it through high school, use… Read more
Decoupled and Headless CMS: An Introduction
May 16, 2019 / Ashley Olsen Decoupled architecture. It’s making waves in the development community and all for the right reasons. Separating your back-end from your front-end simply makes sense. Content management systems like WordPress and Drupal both offer a set of features tha… Read more
Don’t be a Red Shirt: The Importance of Regular Website Maintenance
February 7, 2019 / Treena Bjarnason All trekkers know that any crew members wearing a red shirt aboard a Starfleet vessel are expendable and will likely be blasted or sucked out into the vastness of space. In other words, they typically have very short lifespans. Your website has the pot… Read more
Highly Critical Security Update for Drupal
April 17, 2018 / Treena Bjarnason Drupal sites all over the world are being hacked and compromised by an automated attack. Over the past week, Acquia has observed over 500,000 attacks from more than 3,000 different IP addresses across its fleet of servers and customer base. The Drupal… Read more
Top Trends in WordPress Website Development
March 29, 2018 / Treena Bjarnason With nearly 455 million sites out on the web today running on WordPress you could say it’s a big player. So the top trends in WordPress website development are currently influencing web design and development in general. If you’re building your site fr… Read more
Cheeky Monkey Takes Third for Leading Web Developers in Canada
February 21, 2018 / Treena Bjarnason We’re extremely proud to kick off our 2018 by accepting an array of awards in Clutch’s annual report of top firms in the United Kingdom and Canada, featuring the 374 most highly reviewed companies in these locations! Against other development leaders,… Read more
Project AMP: How Google is Speeding Up Mobile Loading
October 13, 2017 / Treena Bjarnason Have you noticed that when performing a Google search on mobile, often the link you click through to isn’t the website’s direct URL? You’ll see in your browser URL bar something like “https://google.com/amp/so-forth-and-so-on”. That’s Google’s Project… Read more
WordPress vs Drupal Showdown
August 11, 2017 / Treena Bjarnason Introduction In today’s technology era, now is the time to have an engaging online presence. As of 2022, there are over 1.3 billion websites on the internet, with more being updated and created each day. Selecting the right Content Management System(CM… Read more