What A Chair Taught Me About Functional Web Design
Today’s web design is pretty exciting, and at the same time pretty demanding on its architects. With the desire for device-agnostic interfaces and websites, designers, more than ever, need to focus on function over form. The Chair I recall a project in college where we were tasked with designing a chair. We could build it […]
Notes from the Trail – August 20, 2014
Content marketing, social media, and user experience seem to be all the key buzzwords that are rocking the blogs lately, and as marketing professionals, we need to pay attention. Certainly, the methods and tactics that worked for our parents’ marketing strategies aren’t going to work for us, and even the strategies we ourselves used less […]
Drupal Association Job Board has Launched!
Earlier this year, Cheeky Monkey Media and the Drupal Association began work on a new project for the community – the Drupal Job Boards feature. The Job Boards were to be an addition to the Drupal Association website and a means by which companies and organizations could reach out to the community with potential opportunities. […]
Rally Point – August 18, 2014
Monday Morning Motivation Ugh, it’s Monday already? What happened to the weekend? Well, in an effort to start the week on the right foot, here are a few motivational posts, links, and tension breakers. If we can start the week with a laugh and inject a little enthusiasm into a Monday, we’ll be in good […]
Who is the Drupal Association?
It’s no secret that the Adventure crew here at Cheeky Monkey Media loves Drupal. Heck, we even had our Creative Director create a short video to proclaim it (you can check that out here). We love Drupal so much, that even though we’re a bunch of geeky, nerdy, development types, we’d actually try to hit […]
5 Tips for SEO – Keywords Part Two
As I promised last time. I told you I would keep giving you more information from my amazing brain. Read on to learn more about SEO. Identify what your site needs This can be a little difficult to figure out if you’re not familiar with your current web statistics, or if you haven’t quite got […]
Widows & Orphans – Villains of Typography
In the world of ‘typography’ where the printed page is sometimes classified as a work of exquisite craft (or even art if you ask some typophiles), there are a duo of villains known as the widow and the orphan. The widow and the orphan are both careless remnants that can disrupt a page’s “typographic colour”. […]
How to Plan a Website Project by Patrick Beckerton
Knowing what you want to do The best question heard in the realm of web development is, “can this be done?” The simple answer is yes – usually, most things can be built into a website. The hard part is figuring out how to do it, and how long it will take. With that in […]
5 tips for SEO – Keywords Part One
I once had a client tell me that I was a magician with keyword selection and analysis. It was flattering, but not even close to accurate. The truth, unfortunately, is nowhere near as exciting. Though it may seem that keyword analysis is a mystical talent, it’s actually more of a combination of art and science. […]
Confessions of a Tech Noob: Gettin’ Googly With It
So I have recently discovered that I LOVE Google docs. Once I figured out how to navigate through the system, which has taken me basically six months (sigh), I realized how handy it is to have all of this documentation to reference. I really enjoy the “sharing” feature of Google docs as well which is […]
