In this episode, we wish you a Happy New Year and chat about some [mostly Craft-related] technologies and trends we're looking forward to in 2017: Craft CMS 3, Yii 2, the Craft plugin store, VueJS, Google AMP, Facebook Inst

Interview with Patrick Harrington & Marko Srdoč: The Journey from Drupal to Craft CMS

Oct 19th, 2016 1h 15m

Michael & Andrew interview two developers who have made the switch from Drupal to Craft CMS: Patrick Harrington and Marko Srdoč. Some very interesting discussion ensued about the strengths of Craft CMS, and also where Craft CMS could learn from

Interview with Sean Smith: The Journey from ExpressionEngine to Craft CMS

Sep 2nd, 2016 1h 11m

Andrew & special guest host Earl Johnston interview long time ExpressionEngine developer Sean Smith from http://caffeinecreations.ca/ , discussing his recent transition to using Craft CMS. We cover both the moments of unbr

Website Performance Part III: Efficient Templating

Aug 5th, 2016 1h 19m

Michael & Andrew continue the conversation about website performance, focusing on efficient Twig templating with Craft CMS. Topics covered include how to code performant templates, using the {% cache %} tag efficiently, ho

Website Performance Part II: Time to First Byte & Server-Side Performance

Jun 2nd, 2016 58m 5s

Michael & Andrew continue the conversation about website performance. This time we cover server-side performance, and the benefits of embracing performance-minded server tech like PHP7, Nginx, MariaDB, and HTTP2. As in our previous episode, we

Website Performance Part I: PageSpeed Insights & In-Browser Rendering

Apr 8th, 2016 1h 1m

Andrew Welch returns to the Craft Podcast, this time to talk about server and client-side performance practices. Performance is an afterthought to many designers, developers, and even clients, but it is a crucial part of creating a modern websi

SEO in Craft

Mar 13th, 2016 53m 18s

In this episode, we talk with Andrew Welch about SEO: What does SEO mean in 2016? How do we tell if we're doing well? What are the modern best practices, and how do we implement them in Craft? Meta tags, structured data, JS

Craft Services

Feb 6th, 2016 1h

In this episode, Pixel & Tonic founder Brandon Kelly, and newly-minted Chief Customer Officer Leslie Camacho give us a personal introduction to P&T's new Craft Services program and share their vision for helping Craft custo

Community 101

Nov 9th, 2015 28m 10s

In this episode, Les calls Michael in Singapore to talk about how to get involved in the CraftCMS community, the importance of StackExchange, Slack etiquette, and how we're all in this to make each other better.

"Why Craft?" — Part II: The Tech Case

Sep 30th, 2015 44m 18s

In this follow-up to Episode 4, Michael — joined again by our friend Steven Grant — talks about Craft's technical merits and explains how Craft adds value to projects from a developer perspective. We discuss Craft's flexibl

"Why Craft?" — Part I: The Business Case

Sep 14th, 2015 42m 44s

Leslie walks us through his value-first sales philosophy and explains how to make an effective pitch for Craft as a business solution.

Beginner Questions from a Senior Developer

Aug 31st, 2015 43m 17s

Michael answers some 'getting started' questions from our friend Jesse Schutte — a veteran developer on several platforms, but brand new to Craft. We talk about setting up and structuring Craft sites, using Craft's multi-en

Interview with Brandon Kelly: Craft Past, Present, and Future

Jun 18th, 2015 30m 50s

We catch up with the founder of Pixel & Tonic and Craft's creator Brandon Kelly. We cover the state of Craft, where it came from, where its going, and manage a little biz talk along the way.

Ben Parizek on Sustainable Plugin Pricing & Development

Jun 1st, 2015 29m 51s

We were fortunate to catch Ben in person at Peers Conference. Ben is a partner at Barrel Strength Design and the founder of StraightupCraft.com, the number one Craft Community website. He's also an economist (yes, really) who wants to make crea

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