We’re a committed Shopify Partner Agency that works with a lot of complex and high-end Shopify stores. A common pattern we find with general Shopify stores is around performance, which is typically isolated to these main areas.

• JavaScript
• CLS & LCP
• Image processing and display
• Coding practices
  

Let’s dive into this a bit deeper.

Why Use Craft CMS?

Here at Punch Buggy, we run a CMS agnostic shop and have a lot of choices available for which Content Management System to use.  Over the years, we’ve become bigger & bigger fans & supporters of Craft CMS, developed by Pixel & Tonic. There are several major reasons we’d lean towards using Craft over any other, and they all relate to ease of use for our clients, as well as best practices for development that we can all be proud of. Some of this is technical, but it all serves the same point – Craft is a powerful, flexible system that’s easy to use.

All CMS-driven websites rely on one form of a database or another. This database contains almost all of the content and the configuration of the site.  For some sites, almost everything except the aesthetics of the site is stored in the database.

A database differs from regular, boring file storage in that it stores data in a structured, organised manner. This organisation means that one piece of information can relate to another and be organised, and then searched, in a structural manner – not unlike browsing the shelves in a store.  These search requests are known as queries. You can do a lot of cool stuff with a simple database, and a smartly designed DB will carry a site a long way.