Teamwork

How to Lead a Successful Drupal Team

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on December 3, 2019

There are probably many things that can scare a web developer, but close to the top of that list would probably be something like, "You should be the Team lead for this project."

Launch day

Launch your website without the stress

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on November 15, 2019

All of the products and sites I have launched over the years have one thing in common, they were all delivered differently, and after having the chance to look at all of them, I would love to reveal the one step-by-step guide to ruling them all. 

Open Source

The Pros of Going Open Source

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on August 6, 2019

Open Source projects embrace many of the same strong values that also help successful businesses grow and scale.  Collaboration, Transparency, Community, and commitment to quality solutions helps make many Open Source projects as good or better th

commissions

Increase Sales with Contextual Commerce

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on August 4, 2019

Personalizing websites to a user's needs and wants has been around for a while, this technology can be seen in action on almost all of the major online stores.  It has not been easy for startups, small businesses, or entrepreneurs to leverage this

MauticVsClickfunnels

Mautic vs Clickfunnels: It's Time to own your Funnels

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on May 12, 2019

Recently there has been huge news for the Marketing and Funnel industry, the Drupal and OpenSource advocate Acquia recently purchased Mautic.  Some of you may already have experience with Mautic, but for others, this may be the first of hearing of

Simplyfing Restful API

Simplifying Drupal 8 RestFUL API

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on May 19, 2018

With Drupal 8 bringing Services API into the core and setting up a RestFUL API as a part of the new suite of features it has given Drupal a lot more power when it comes to creating Decoupled applications, but can still be quite challenging to wrap your head around.

Job Posting

Looking For a Drupal Developer

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on May 14, 2018

Wembassy is currently looking for a motivated, proactive and energetic individual to join the company's engineering team as a full-time member.

14 updates to old content

14 Ways to Update old Drupal content for better SEO

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on April 30, 2018

If you are looking for some easy wins when it comes to your SEO marketing campaign for your Drupal site, then implementing these 14 updates to existing content can help boost your site's ranking faster than creating new content.

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Six 2018 Trends For The Ecommerce Industry

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on April 18, 2018

It is no secret that e-commerce is a big business that’s getting bigger. Conservative opinions predict online retail sales or online shops are expected to reach $4.5 trillion1 by 2021!

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Top 4 Reasons Why We Must Have Chatbots In E-commerce.

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on April 13, 2018

Today, with more and more opportunities that consumers have online, switching your business online or e-commerce portal is a must-do rather than just a possibility. E-commerce allows companies, entrepreneurs, SMEs to deliver a better shopping experience to every potential client and thus, contribute to increase in sales and overall customer satisfaction. Today we are going to discuss a not-so-fresh but yet trendy feature of electronic commerce that is widely known as chatbot, its main features, and figure out whether it is effective or not.

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Building a Live Page builder for Drupal 8 -- Images

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on April 13, 2018

Things have been really busy around Wembassy since we won 2nd place at the Drupal Hackathon in Manilla.  One of those things was learning some new technology to help us supercharge our work with creating Drupal's first Live page editor.

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9 Benefits of Continuous Integration

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on April 11, 2018

Before we immerse in the 9 benefits, we need to know first what is Continuous Integration? Is it different from Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment?

BetterROIforEcommerce

Drupal Ecommerce Better ROI with Analytics

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on February 5, 2018

There are many powerful tools available for tracking and analyzing your visitors' behaviors on your website. So once you spent all of the time, effort, and budget on building your new Drupal or Magento site, how do you go about ensuring that your ROI is good enough for that effort? In this blog, we will go through the simple steps needed and using tools in conjunction to improve your website's ROI through analytics. Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and Mautic are all powerful tools for analyzing and tracking traffic and your visitor's behavior while they are on your website. However, did you know you can take things a step further and track behavior they are taking when they may not be directly on your site? In this post, I will be walking you through the basic process of setting up Google Analytics sales goals and funnels to help you gather the best insights from your online business data.

MauticvsWebform

Mautic vs Webforms comparison

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on January 23, 2018

With more and more sites becoming decoupled and using various front-end frameworks like React or Angular to create an enhanced web experience there is a need for tools that do the same for the various forms on a site, this is where Mautic shines. Today I will be doing a feature comparison and explaining why using Mautic as your form builder will be the right move going forward.

Local development

Local Development: Getting Started with DrupalVM

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on January 22, 2018

This last year has seen a lot of improvements to the toolsets that local developers have access to when developing Drupal projects. As Drupal as a framework has grown and new technologies like Twig and Symfony2 added to the CMS a new workflow has emerged as the preferred method. Today we will be going over using DrupalVM as your local development environment and the benefits it has.

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A beginners guide to caching in Drupal 8

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on January 20, 2018

Caching is a popular technique to optimize the performance of a website. It is a process that stores web data (HTML, CSS, Image) in some accessible space. Moreover, a cache is a detailed information of a validity of a resource. This information defines for how long the resource is valid and should not be considered stale. The information can be stored at every level right from the original server to intermediate proxies to the browser.

Product Placement Strategies that convert

Product Placement Strategies that convert

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on January 20, 2018

Do you remember the last time you clicked on a banner advertisement? No, well if your having trouble remembering or your answer is never, don't worry you are not alone.

Website Layouts that Sell

Website Layouts that Sell

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on June 28, 2017

What does your ecommerce store have in common with a magazine? They both the magazine and your website communicate with words and pictures. Although you may have never thought of it in this exact way, your store is essentially narrating a story to your customers. And, the way in which you tell that story will lead potential customers to decide if doing business with you is in their best interest.

How to create a custom Drupal 8 Form

How to create a custom Drupal 8 Form

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on March 23, 2017

If you're like many of the Drupal 7 developers or other PHP developers just getting started with Drupal 8 you may be scratching your head about some of the major changes that have happened to Drupal.  With the change to using Symfony for the core API for Drupal 8, many of the old ways of creating custom forms won't work now.