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Joining us from the coding community in Charlotte, NC, Justin Holt is a web developer specializing in Craft CMS. Justin helps brands, organizations, and agencies worldwide create award-winning, unique, and effective web & mobile experiences. Shahzeb: Hello Justin, thank you for taking the time out for this interview. Before we start, how about you tell the readers about yourself? Justin: I’m an easy going long time web developer (27 years), baseball fan, BBQ pitmaster, and Craft CMS evangelist. I specialize in Craft CMS/Yii development and consulting with various agencies, businesses, and other developers across the world including Solspace, Span Studios,…
Organizations will invite agencies to respond with a bid on their website redesign or development project when they send out a request for proposal (RFP). And then it selects the agency with the best proposal to do the job for them. This means you must out-compete other agencies to win a website redesign project. And for that, you have to know all the strategies, tips, and efforts that go into writing a winning website redesign proposal. That’s what you’ll learn in this piece. But before that, let’s first understand what website redesign entails and what a website redesign RFP is.…
vConnect Magento department manager Oleksandr Kravchuk has 6+ years of experience with Magento, during this time he has worked with many reputed organizations on multiple projects. In 2020, he was also the Magento Master and is a very active member of Magento community! We’re thrilled Oleksandr sharing his journey, thoughts, and life as a Magento geek with us here. Strap in! Cloudways: Tell us a bit about yourself and your career highlights! Oleksandr: My name is Oleksandr Kravchuk. I’m originally from Ukraine, but due to the war which Russia had started in my country, I’m temporarily living in Bulgaria. Anyway,…
The last two years didn’t only bring us lockdowns, anxiety, and uncertainty. For us PHP developers, they’ve been an exciting time too. The pace at which our language is evolving is astonishing. At the time of this writing, the site PHP The Right Way mentions PHP 8.1 as the recommended version to be used for new projects. Check out this article to dig into the new features you can use. In this article, we’ll share our in-depth performance benchmarks for various PHP versions and platforms so you know what to expect after an upgrade. We benchmarked 5 different PHP versions…
I am very excited to announce that we have entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, startups, and SMBs. Ten years ago, myself, Pere, Uzair, and Umair founded Cloudways with the mission of partnering with SMBs to save them time and money and allow them to grow their business with peace of mind and improved productivity. Every day we have been inspired by our mission to help SMBs move their dreams forward and today we’re humbled to serve more than 72,000 customers on over 570,000 websites. I am extremely proud of what we,…
We have been working hard for some time now to ensure PHP 8.1 runs smoothly on our servers. With an official release on November 25, 2021, PHP 8.1 is finally available on the Cloudways platform! PHP 8.1 brings new features, performance improvements, better syntax, and more. What’s new in PHP 8.1 Bug-Free Scalar Type Hints PHP now gets way better error messages when type hinting doesn’t coordinate. This implies that if you’re expecting a string and PHP gets an integer, PHP will throw a clear and brief error message to assist you in debugging the issue. This can be just…
Here at Cloudways, we see tons of valuable info about the technical side of WordPress. We learn how to fix bugs, protect websites from DDoS attacks, and troubleshoot WordPress errors. But don’t you get the feeling we’re missing something? Content! Technically perfect, our WordPress website still needs stellar content for users to click, visit, read, and follow it. This article is a detailed guide on how to format WordPress posts for better visibility, SEO, and more clicks. Step-by-step instructions and a checklist will save your time on content creation and help make it more actionable for the audience to follow.…
Launched 15 years ago, today Ciphers Digital is a full-scale digital marketing agency that offers small businesses online visibility solutions through a client-centric approach. How Ciphers Digital Creates Impact for its Clients The Ciphers Digital team offers several digital services, such as digital marketing, social media marketing, website design, and web development. However, its core interest is helping businesses rank in the SERPs organically. That makes SEO their primary niche of operations. According to Mike Rux, Ciphers Digital is “committed to making a positive impact on our clients and the world around us, and we are always looking for new…
We are pleased to announce the Cloudways + Visual Composer Giveaway, starting From 5th August to 19th August. An aesthetically pleasing and fully functional website is a plus for the users as it enhances their user experience. This is why Visual Composer Website builder has appeared on the forefront as a viable solution to provide users with an interactive and visually appealing website. Having said that, free versions often come with their set of limitations and obviously don’t give their users uncontrolled access to their website. The premium version, on the other hand, can be quite risky because what if…
We are pleased to announce the Cloudways + Visual Composer Giveaway, starting From 5th August to 19th August. An aesthetically pleasing and fully functional website is a plus for the users as it enhances their user experience. This is why Visual Composer Website builder has appeared on the forefront as a viable solution to provide users with an interactive and visually appealing website. Having said that, free versions often come with their set of limitations and obviously don’t give their users uncontrolled access to their website. The premium version, on the other hand, can be quite risky because what if…