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Defining Great Web Design

Published 12/17/2015
Gabriel RichardsGabriel Richards
Design
Defining Great Web Design

What Is Great Web Development?

Published 12/17/2015
Karen D. McRaeKaren D. McRae
Software
What Is Great Web Development?

Why Aren't Drupal 8 Menus Part of Configuration Management?!

Published 9/24/2015
Gabriel RichardsGabriel Richards

Encouraging input about best practices in managing deployment of menu items across environments in Drupal 8 site development.

SoftwareDesign
Why Aren't Drupal 8 Menus Part of Configuration Management?!
Is Your Ecommerce Site Ready for the Holiday Shopping Season?

Is Your Ecommerce Site Ready for the Holiday Shopping Season?

Published 9/17/2015
Karen D. McRaeKaren D. McRae

The holiday shopping season is right around the corner! Here are 10 things to check on your e-commerce site to make sure you're ready for online shoppers.

E-Commerce
Is Your Ecommerce Site Ready for the Holiday Shopping Season?

Bounce Rates: How They Affect Your Conversion Rates; and How to Fix Them

Published 9/10/2015
Karen D. McRaeKaren D. McRae

"Bounce rates" are pesky number. Can you lower your bounce rate? Yes. Though you can't be everything to everyone, here are some tips for improving your bounce.

E-CommerceMarketing
Bounce Rates: How They Affect Your Conversion Rates; and How to Fix Them

What is CRO and Why Do E-Commerce Sites Need It?

Published 8/25/2015
Karen D. McRaeKaren D. McRae

Competition online is fiercer than ever. How can you make your e-commerce site the best it can be? Simple: conversion rate optimization. Read on for tips.

E-CommerceMarketing
What is CRO and Why Do E-Commerce Sites Need It?

Free Plugin for Monitoring Rackspace Postfix Email Queue

Published 8/18/2015
Karen D. McRaeKaren D. McRae

We created an open source plugin to monitor a Postfix email queue – Get the free plug in here!

Cloud
Free Plugin for Monitoring Rackspace Postfix Email Queue

Troubleshoot PHP Performance Issues With Blackfire Profiler

Published 8/13/2015
Karen D. McRaeKaren D. McRae

Blackfire Profiler is an easy-to-install PHP performance profiler that can quickly help you discover where your code is slowing down your app.

Software
Troubleshoot PHP Performance Issues With Blackfire Profiler

Endertech Takes on the 100 Day Project

Published 8/11/2015
Karen D. McRaeKaren D. McRae

If you had 100 days to learn a new skill, improve yourself, or share something you love with the world, would you? At Endertech, we're doing exactly that. We've accepted the challenge of the 100 Days Project to commit to doing something every single day, for 100 days straight. Find out what each Endertechie is doing for the next 100 days and how to keep up with their progress.

Marketing
Endertech Takes on the 100 Day Project
Drupal 8, Grounded in Symfony

Drupal 8, Grounded in Symfony

Published 4/10/2015
Gabriel RichardsGabriel Richards

Drupal is a powerful open-source and flexible content management system (that's why we love working with it). But lets face it, it's earlier versions have a few "wrinkles."

Software
Drupal 8, Grounded in Symfony

Achieving PCI Compliance for SAQ D with Amazon AWS

Published 3/19/2015
Gabriel RichardsGabriel Richards

What do you do when your merchant account insists on PCI compliance? Read on to find out how we went from SAQ A to SAQ D in 30 days!

E-CommerceCloud
Achieving PCI Compliance for SAQ D with Amazon AWS

Using PHPCR and Its Sidekick, Jackalope

Published 3/17/2015
Gabriel RichardsGabriel Richards

In this post, we'll dig a little deeper in how the PHP Content Repository works with its sidekick Jackalope. You’ll see that its applications extend beyond content management and that a design based on the PHPCR offers tremendous flexibility.

Software
Using PHPCR and Its Sidekick, Jackalope
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