The Cloud
How to make a website
22 years ago, I worked at a company called LACityWeb.com. The company failed in the year 2000, but back in 1999 we were selling websites. The sales...
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Content Management System (CMS)
Artificial Intelligence
How to pick the best Headless CMS
In the past few years, Metal Toad has increasingly migrated clients to headless CMS providers to reduce costs, improve the conten
The Cloud
How often should I update my website?
The short answer the the question: how often should I update my website? is every 3 to 5 years. The much longer answer starts with: it depends.
The Cloud
Building a AWS Headless CMS
Over the past several years, Metal Toad has launched several successful cloud-first web and mobile applications, often with hardware components. With...
Artificial Intelligence
Comparing Drupal, Symfony, and Craft CMS Frameworks
With so many options available out there, it can be confusing to choose the right CMS for your business.
Content Management System (CMS)
Removing batch operations in Symfony Sonata model list forms
When building out a web project in Symfony that needed CMS capabilities, we quickly turned to the excellent Sonata Admin Bundle.
Drupal
Anatomy of a Drupalgeddon attack
Before working at Metal Toad, I saw an email from Acquia. A strange email. It went something like this:
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Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
Artificial Intelligence
Why More People Select WordPress than Drupal to Build Websites
First off, Drupal has had a great year and a great quarter.
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The Emmys Chooses Drupal 7
For those who watched the Primetime Emmys last night the content management system (CMS) used to support the website probably didn't matter all that...
Artificial Intelligence
Open Source is the New Microsoft
When I was starting out in the web industry back before the turn of century, open source options were available but were often ruled out as risky...
Artificial Intelligence
New Competition: Will WordPress and Drupal Learn to Share?
After years of building and publishing on them, I'd love to say I knew CMS frameworks like Drupal and WordPress would be this huge. In truth they got...
Drupal
Websites Don't Use Carburetors Anymore
It used to be that cars were simple. If your car broke down, a guy could pop the hood, check a few wires, hit things with a hammer and actually get...
Artificial Intelligence
Top 5 Reasons to Choose Drupal as your CMS.
We get a lot of questions about what makes Drupal a good decision as a content management system. Here are the top 5 reasons, in order of importance:
Artificial Intelligence
The Framework is dead. Long live the CMS.
If you don't know already, the framework is dead.
Drupal
How to Decide Between WordPress & Drupal
WordPress is great - and so is Drupal. They are different platforms and should be selected for different projects depending on the needs. So how do...
Drupal
First thoughts of Drupal
Like any good Gen-Y-er, knowing I would be starting a job at a web development company that specialized in Drupal technology, my first step was to...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad Media gears up for the Primetime Emmy® Awards show with Emmys.com
It's almost time -- Sunday, September 20 at 8 PM on CBS -- for TVs finest to come together for the Primetime Emmy® Awards.