The importance of strategic planning for your website
So you have finally decided to create a new website, but you soon realize there is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million things for you to understand and organize before you can get started. For instance, do you have a domain name? Hosting? Content plan? (you do know what
How to setup IE on a mac
As a Drupal developer, I use mac osx to develop all my Drupal projects. I like the slick Unified UI, powerful Unix core, and all the awesome building tools on a mac. Although my Mac has everything that I ever needed to develop drupal sites, there is one thing missing
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
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
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
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