accessibility

How to get ready for Accessibility with Aria

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on December 10, 2019

With the recent increase of focus on making sure that websites are accessible to those who have disabilities, it is important as a business owner to make sure your website meets the legal requirements in order to avoid costly lawsuits.

Boost Your traffic in 2020, the Best ways to increase Website Traffic

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on December 9, 2019

Everyone knows how valuable traffic is to get new customers online, in this post, I am going to go over some of the hottest tips in increasing your website's traffic in 2020.   You will also get a chance to see in a follow-up post just how much th

Drupal page cache

Making Sense of Cache in Drupal 8

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on December 7, 2019

Are you having trouble with cache on your Drupal 8 site? In this post, we go over some of the most common challenges you can face when configuring page caching for Drupal 8.

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Controlling Views Access with Custom Plugins

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on December 6, 2019

Have a special case where you need a more advanced way to control access to a view? Enter custom plugins for views access. In this article, we take a look at how to create some custom access handling for views.

Frustrated with bugs

How to stop annoying Drupal bugs!

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on December 6, 2019

Owning a Drupal site gives you access to powerful tools for managing content, selling products/services, and many other things. It can also bring with it several challenges that can make managing a drupal site frustrating to those not familiar with the platform, we share some tips today to solve these common issues.

Mautic Lead generation

A better way to get started using Mautic

Submitted by Chris McIntosh on December 5, 2019

If you are looking to get started using mautic, then you may have a hard time finding documentation that you can make sense of. In this guide, we will go over how to get your Mautic site setup and how to start using it to generate leads that convert into customers.

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.