Improve Productivity by Recognizing Time Vampires
Time Vampires – Evil Time Wasting Blood Suckers – THEY ARE REAL!!! Have you ever looked at the clock and realized your work day is almost over and you can’t recall what you accomplished during the past 8 hours? If we’re really honest with ourselves and each other right now, you are probably nodding your […]
Insights from the NHF on Building an Online Community Website
Two weeks ago, I had the chance to sit down with the National Hemophilia Association (NHF)’s marketing and education team: Jay Patel, Director of Online Marketing and Data Systems Beth Marshall, Director of Communications Kate Nammacher, Director of Education Corinne Koenig, Manager of Education and Training During our half-an-hour chat about their redesigned online community […]
How to Create Email Campaigns that Work
Email marketing has the potential to have the highest return on investment (ROI) of all your marketing efforts. According to the 2016 State of Email Report published by Litmus, email has an ROI “of 38-to-1 on every dollar invested.” That’s pretty significant. Think about it… The average salary for an email marketing specialist in Canada […]
Best Practices: Building Your Nonprofit’s Online Community
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 community. As Mack Fogelson writes in The Truly Monumental Guide to Building Online Communities: Building an […]
Does my WordPress Site Need AMP? Does it Really?
Last week, we published a case study about our experience integrating Cheeky Monkey Media’s Drupal website with AMP. We’re pretty impressed with the results. But, what if you have a WordPress site? And, what if you’re a nonprofit, for example, and not a digital agency, do you need to have AMP? The short answer is […]
Making Your Online Properties Fast and Efficient with AMP
AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) The official definition: The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project is an open-source initiative that embodies the vision that publishers can create mobile optimized content once and have it load instantly everywhere. Our definition: A way we can make our websites fling poo load and function as quickly and efficiently as possible […]
Are Concept Maps the Secret to UX & SEO Strategies in 2017?
When building or analyzing your website, the last thing you want to discover is that you’re one misplaced keyword away from bringing a Frankenstein-inspired mess to life. If you’re reading this article with a sinking feeling in your stomach, relax – the solution is much simpler than killing your own creation (or at least trying […]
Card Sorts – The Secret to Intuitive Websites
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 website? Most importantly – how can you make your website efficient for both your […]
Information Architecture: The Secret to an Intuitive Website
Do I Have a Content Organization Problem or an Information Architecture Problem? You probably have both. In fact, they’re usually one and the same. One afternoon, while we were busy working out, the troop got to talking about organizing and re-organizing website content. We observed that a number of our clients had come to us […]
PHP 7 Improves Website Performance & User Experience
PHP 7 Upgrade Gives Cheeky Monkey an Extra Little Something When we decided to convert the Cheeky Monkey Media corporate site to PHP 7, we expected some improvements in web performance We expected the site to run faster and smoother. We expected the page loads to be quicker. We expected these results to leave the […]
