The Cheeky Monkey Media Blog
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Web Development
Best Practices: Building Your Nonprofit’s Online Community
January 24, 2017 / Treena Bjarnason In my recent guest post, I discuss why WordPress and Drupal are excellent content management system (CMS) choices for your nonprofit’s community website. Picking the right CMS is only the first step to building and nurturing a successful online communi… Read more
Card Sorts – The Secret to Intuitive Websites
December 21, 2016 / Treena Bjarnason Whether you’re designing or redesigning your website, grouping and organizing your content can be tricky. What will your users look for first? What content do they value most? What is the most likely and most efficient path of navigation through your w… Read more
How Much Does It Cost To Build a Website?
November 8, 2016 / Treena Bjarnason Unless you’re a magician with numbers, calculating a budget for your website is probably not at the top of your “Things I can’t wait to do!” list. Take it from the monkeys who do it all the time (that’s us), it’s not that bad. In fact, it can actually… Read more
How to connect your drupal or wordpress site to Cloudflare
December 4, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Looking to increase your website performance and get a free SSL certificate? Check out CloudFlare’s free service to “supercharge” your website. Performance Cloudflare can increase performance in a few ways. First, it can distribute your content globall… Read more
Memcached VS Redis
September 24, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Memcached and Redis are in-memory key-value pair storing system, or in short, a “caching” system. Both of them open-sourced. First a bit of history. Memcached Originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick at Danda interactive for their website LiveJournal,… Read more
Pseudocode Programming
September 1, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Before writing any actual code for a module or project, you should try to construct your code idea in a low language(Plain English), which is a good practice. Then, when you write the actual code, the steps will be clear and automatic to create. A grea… Read more
Mindful Programming
August 25, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason In the world of programming whether you’re working in Web, Software, Data, etc. you’ve more than likely heard of being “ In The Zone“ or “The Flow”. This zone is a state of mind where you have lost awareness of your surroundings, lost track of time, fo… Read more
Why hire a web development agency
June 18, 2015 / Rick Bjarnason Drupal web development is in high demand. Web sites are becoming more complicated and the use case scenario is always changing. It is not uncommon these days to have a website that is never finished but instead is in a constant flux of feature requests… Read more
Monkey Love
May 12, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason They say that an infinite number of monkeys hitting random keys on a typewriter would eventually create the collected works of William Shakespeare. I am but one monkey on a MacBook. I don’t believe I’ll come close to achieving Shakespeare, but at leas… Read more
5 Signs You May Be Addicted to Xdebug
April 7, 2015 / Treena Bjarnason Just a few warning signs to tell if you may be addicted to using xdebug: When you are checking out at a grocery store, you wish you could freeze time and see how your yogurt is ringing up so high You feel guilty after using xdebug when you really didn’… Read more
Ways to use Drupal
March 5, 2015 / Rick Bjarnason We like to say that we can build anything in Drupal. But, is this really true? Let’s find out. Agency Websites This one is fairly easy since Cheeky Monkey Media is built using Drupal. Media Websites One of the largest is Virgin.com. But there are plent… Read more