4 Ways to Budget for a Drupal 9/10 Migration
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 released in 2020, and Drupal 10 will be released in summer 2022.” […]
Headless vs Traditional CMS Website Development – Is It Worth the Cost?
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 traditional CMS and headless CMS? Do they differ in cost? In this article, our team is […]
Drupal 10 Is on Its Way: How You Can Prepare
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 the arrival of Drupal 10. Let’s get started! When Is […]
Cheeky Monkey Media Adopt-a-Primate Initiative
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, projects began to pick up, and the team started growing […]
Why Prototypes Will Transform Your Web Project’s Results
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 use, but today we’re focusing on the use of digital […]
5 Advantages of a UX Designer/Project Manager Hybrid
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 of working with […]
Why Cheeky Monkey Media is All In on WebOps
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 already familiar with its […]
User Stories are the Rosetta Stone to Becoming Tech-lingual
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 establish a good understanding of the requirements at the beginning of a project. At Cheeky Monkey […]
4 Ways to Optimize Your Core Web Vitals
Earlier this year, the Core Web Vitals (CWV) update joined the list of factors that affect your website’s search ranking. Now, you might be asking, “What are they even?!” And likely not totally aware that there are 4 ways to optimize your Core Web Vitals… No problem, we’ve got you. Simply put, it’s the technical […]
May the Power of Website Maintenance Compel You
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 their sites current, secure, and most importantly FOUND. Here’s why the power of website […]
