Why Move Away From Third Party Tracking

by Matt Dorman | Technology

Third-party tracking, a mainstay of media websites, is becoming less useful. Modern browsers get in its way, and it has performance and privacy concerns. There’s no technical reason you have to let others share your pages to get analytics on your site, and the...

Drupal 9 – What Changed and Should I Plan to Upgrade?

by Matt Dorman | Planning, Technology

Executive Summary: I’m impressed with this update mainly due to the backwards compatibility. The recent months have seen a lot of debate within the Drupal community regarding the recently released Drupal 9. The new development was released on June 3rd, 2020. By...

Migrating from Standard MySQL to AWS Aurora + MySQL

by Meeky Hwang | Development, Technology

It’s increasingly common to run databases in the cloud. Whether you run a self-managed instance or use a managed service, it saves much of the trouble of running it on-premises. Amazon’s AWS offers three major options, trading off control against...

Speaking and Sponsoring WordCamp Denver 2020

by ndevr | Learning, WordCamp

Nearly back to back conferences for us, and both are of course virtual. This one happens to be in our back yard, and we could actually attend from our back yards. Check out the WordCamp Denver site for details on the June 26-27, 2020 event. Meeky and Matt are again...

Amazon Lightsail Monitoring and Notifications

by Meeky Hwang | Development, Technology

Amazon Lightsail gives virtual private servers (VPS) full cloud flexibility. You can set up all the instances, databases, and load balancers you need and add more as your requirements grow. You can set one up as a Linux server and use it however you like....

Email Marketing Solutions – A Comparison

by Matt Dorman | Inbound

Email marketing might seem a little bit old school in the age of social media. However, email marketing still has the best ROI (About $42 for every $1 spent). Despite crowded inboxes, people still pay attention to emails as long as it’s done right. It’s a...

Speaking and Sponsoring at CMS Philly 2020

by ndevr | WordCamp

It’s been a while since we’ve attended a conference, we’ll be doing this one from our home offices as it’s a virtual event. Check out the CMS Philly site for details on the May 1, 2020 event. Meeky and Matt are excited, and a bit scared, to see...

Working Remotely: Effective Communication

by Chris Runo | Learning, Management

Since February a majority of the population has had to make a transition from working in an office among their co-workers to working remotely. For some, this transition has not been easy. When making a drastic change in how a company operates there can be many...

Build a Headless Architecture with AWS Lambda and WordPress

by Matt Dorman | Development, Technology

WordPress is the leading choice for websites. It’s an excellent way to manage dynamic content. It’s open-source, so you can add third-party code or write your own to enhance it. It has some issues, though. You have to keep up with updates to maintain...

5 Tips for Choosing the Right Content Marketing Architecture

by Meeky Hwang | Inbound

In order to create effective content for your website and social media accounts, you need a plan. You wouldn’t try to launch your business or open a new store without a solid plan in place: a schedule of when you need to accomplish specific tasks and how they...