Legibility of Type
Arguments and disagreements abound on text legibility. Research in this area is often confusing and contradictory. This is not surprising given the increasing number of ways in which type is published. We have print, kiosks, desktop monitors, signs, and many mobile devices from phones to tablets. In this article, I would like to address some […]
How to automatically send your content to social networks
A few months ago I was asked to help manage our company blog. As a busy drupal website developer, I had little time to post all of our new blog content on every social media site. So I decided to automate this so I could spend more time on client projects. My first step was […]
Conference prep for Noobs
When our company is sponsoring a conference, it takes months of work to prepare in regards to finding swag to represent our company, and how we plan on representing ourselves from our conference space. Having a booth that represents the company is no simple task, as it is very important for us to stand out […]
Avoiding common mistakes – admin menu
The drupal admin menu module is something I use every day. Recently, I ran into a problem with it. I needed to give some users access to some specific menu items, however, no matter what I did, that particular user role could not see the menu items. It only displayed an empty admin menu at […]
A Quick Look Back at BADCamp 2014
This year, I was invited to attend BADCamp 2014. No, I know what you are thinking, but this is not a camp for bad web developers. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. BADCamp stands for Bay Area Drupal Camp. This is a four-day, annual event held in the San Francisco Bay area. Basically, it’s a […]
Health & Happiness at Work
The importance of a great office environment is often overlooked. Company health starts with everyone on your team WANTING to come to work. It is ironic that to keep an employee productive and motivated, what they really need is some downtime to chill, relax, and spend a bit of time doing something fun. It could […]
The Creative Block and 5 Ways to Vanquish It
All creative professionals face the dreaded ‘creative block’. It happens to the best of us, it’s one of those unavoidable forces in life. Don’t worry, there are things we can do to deal with it when it does rear its ugly head. Creative block is a bully, but our Kung-fu is strong. Here are 5 […]
4 proven ways to save on website cost estimates
It is no secret that Drupal is transitioning, or already transitioned, to an enterprise solution. What this means is we are seeing larger and larger builds with massive budgets and hours. To muddy the waters even further we are dealing with clients that prefer flat rate quotes. As a Drupal company, or even an independent […]
Conversion Planning
Ever hear of Conversion Planning? As web professionals, we often tell clients time and time again to have an actual goal for the website. Be sure to have an idea of what the desired end result will be, and then work from there. Of course, much like the proverbial dead horse, this concept gets beaten […]
Drupal User Management
User management is an important aspect of a content management system. Thankfully, drupal has really good user management tools built in. Here are some of the cool things drupal can do for you out of the box. Manage Users Managing users with Drupal is fairly straightforward. If you navigate to the user overview page, you […]
