You want your car to run smoothly; to achieve what you set out for it to do—to get from Point A to Point B. Similarly, you want your website to do the same thing. You want it to attract and convert potential customers and clients and generate business for your organization.

Drupal 9 was released on June 3, 2020, alongside Drupal 8.9 — a long-term support minor release of Drupal 8 that was designed to help users transition from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9. While Drupal 8 will be supported until November of this year and Drupal 7 will be supported until November of 2022, there’s never been a better time to make the switch to Drupal 9.

How fast is your website? 

Are you sure it’s fast enough? Or is it costing you business?

As the name might suggest, WordPress got its start in the blogging realm.

Truth be told? WordPress is really great for blogging. 

Unfortunately, right now there is no simple way to upgrade Sitecore versions with a click of a button. There are many steps involved that all work in tandem in order to successfully deploy the upgraded version of your Sitecore environment. Migrating to Azure PaaS is also an extra step which added to the overall complexity of our process. This article outlines some of the challenges encountered and the subsequent learnings.

Do you have a full understanding of what WebOps really is—and what it can do for you?

Is your financial institution’s website or content platform stuck in the dark ages? It may be time to consider creating a new website using the tools that Drupal has to offer.  

Running a company that providesweb development services, and having been in web development for over twenty years has given me a wide-eyed and fairly objective view of the Content Management System (CMS) landscape. That wide-eyed understanding leads me to be very skeptical of any company or service claiming to be a panacea or some sort of “wonderful website-builder”. If our website is the beautiful house that we want to build, a CMS is more akin to the type of materials or tools we are using, than the engineer or the skilled craftsman. The tool can be beautiful, but without the skill and knowledge to use itm it’s worthless. The same goes for a CMS. 

If you run a website, eCommerce site, or marketing department you likely know what a Content Management System (CMS) is. CMSs are applications that help manage content by allowing multiple users to create, edit and publish web content.  Love/hate or indifferent about it, they are the Operating Systems for your website, and just like the operating system on your laptop or phone, they need constant care, like patching, security updates, and upgrades. I want to talk specifically about the security part today. 

It seems like just yesterday we were migrating all of our clients to Drupal 8 from Drupal 7. ‘Migrating’ is actually not the best word for it. It conjures images of a simple, turnkey step-by-step, perhaps even wizard-like interface that magically moves your site from the old to the new. Or, migration conjures images of graceful birds, steadfastly and instinctively making their way to their new surroundings. If anyone who went through this Drupal 7 to 8 journey knows, it was neither graceful nor wizard-like. So, knowing that all Drupal sites will need to be on Drupal 9 by either Nov. 2021 or Nov. 2022, can be scary.