Team Views from Dot One London
After spending the day together at Dot One London, our team gathered together their notes and favourite talks from what was for most, their first Craft CMS meetup.
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Afternoon Sessions at Dot One London - Part Two
The afternoon session at the Craft CMS Dot One Conference in London included 3 talks, covering how to position Craft CMS during sales discussions, a deep dive into a fantastic use case for Craft, and not least, a talk about some of the challenges we've faced ourselves.
Craft CMS Dot One London - Part One
This week we got to hang with the team from Pixel & Tonic who build Craft CMS. Dot One London was the second three mini one-day conferences and a great opportunity to mix with the community and hear all about what's new with Craft CMS.
Craft CMS 5 is Released
After over 12 months in development, we're excited to see the launch of Craft CMS 5 which introduces a raft of new features to make managing your website and it's content easier than ever before.
Changes to Craft CMS and Craft Commerce Editions, Licensing and Pricing
Pixel and Tonic, the development team behind Craft CMS have announced some important changes to Craft CMS and Craft Commerce editions, licensing enforcement, and pricing.
Understanding and using Project Config in Craft CMS
Project Config in Craft CMS is a really powerful tool. But like all powerful tools, if you don't treat it with the respect it deserves, it can cause you a world of pain. Learn more about how to use Project Config without coming to tears.
Craft CMS through the eyes of a website designer
There are a lot of things to love about Craft CMS. This article goes through things that I as a website designer love about using Craft CMS from a design and build perspective.
Integrating External Database Connections
Exploring database connection methods in CraftCMS and Yii. We connect to a Microsoft Azure database and show examples of how we can handle the data in a number of different ways between our plugin code and templates
Refactoring a slow search page with ajax to load faster
When connecting to enterprise systems we need to return the most recent data, this means we can't use caching but we end up with a slow loading page as a result. In this article we explain how to improve the speed whilst keeping the data fresh.
The Importance of Website Security
The negative impacts of breached website security can be immense no matter the size of a business. By some estimates, it is believed that about 30,000 to 50,000 websites get hacked every day.
How higher traffic and sales exposed hidden performance issues and bugs
An honest look into some weaknesses in a site we've built, exposed by the perfect storm of situations. We set the scene and describe how we fixed it.