Slow Website, Slow Sales: Why Storefront Loading Speed Matters (Plus, 8 Problem Spots to Watch For)

by Matt Dorman | Development, Performance

Your ecommerce website’s loading and rendering speed affects everything from your store’s rankings in search engines to the user’s final checkout conversion. And with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing more shoppers online, analysts predict that this...

So, You’ve Been Downsized: How to Manage Your Team After Drastic Changes

by Meeky Hwang | Management

Team downsizing is now a regular occurrence in the business world, especially during trying times like these. In most cases, companies downsize because of financial needs. Decreasing the size of your workforce is an immediate method of dealing with the strain of...

6 Reasons Why You Should Upgrade Your Business Website

by Matt Dorman | Inbound

A business website is the online face of your company. It represents the brand, the products, and even your company culture to future employees. Your website is the first place leads go when checking out a product or service they’ve heard about. It’s also...

Integrations for Inbound Marketing, Sales and Service

by Meeky Hwang | Inbound

Digital marketing continues to evolve rapidly, and the transformations that are taking place in this era would seem impossible a few years ago. Initially, marketing teams had to gather leads and manage them manually, and they would do this effectively. However, this...

Ten Gift Recommendations for Home Office Workers

by ndevr | Management

The Ndevr team has worked from home for over five years now, we know it can be more difficult than trekking to a traditional workplace. There are so many obstacles you don’t think of until you encounter them.  Remote workers love anything that makes their...

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....