Eight days after Confab 2013, and I have finally come down from my conference high. The conference was insightful to say the least - it is by far the best industry conference I have ever attended.
We maintain dozens of Drupal sites for our clients, in a wide variety of hosting environments. Keeping all of these sites up to date could be a nightmare, but our job is made much easier thanks to the awesomeness that is Drush.
If you manage a site, but haven't yet dipped your toe in the world of...
You know how every box of LEGO® comes with that pretty picture on the front of what it’s supposed to look like at the end...and how you might build it that way once, but just once?
Last week, we announced our new interactive video module for Drupal, HubDub. We followed that up with a more detailed under-the-hood look at how HubDub works.
A little over a year ago, we announced Dub, our custom interactive video player, which allows you to overlay web content—such as social media, maps, or web forms—directly onto a video as it plays.
Last week, I wrote a post about the differences between content types, taxonomies, and entities in Drupal, and how you should use each. Now, even with having a strong understanding of how to use these mechanisms, there is still plenty of room to mess up when developing a content model.
Recently a client for an "inherited" (that is, one where we weren’t the original developer) Drupal 7 site asked us to change how a series of videos were presented. They needed to collect some demographic information from site visitors before making the videos available.
In response to our clients’ needs and our own particular strengths at leveraging interactive video to engage audiences, we have been building a custom video player that integrates web video with online services commonly used to for running campaigns.
The traditional method of designing a website has its roots in print. When you design for anything from a logo to a soda can label, you start out with the basic (sketches), work toward the finessed final design, and show your client developing designs at each stage.
I recently had a conversation with a client who was confused by Drupal terminology and didn’t know the difference between content types, taxonomies, and custom entities.
Last week, Alexis Findiesen and I traveled to Portland, Oregon for DrupalCon. Portland, cleverly noting that Drupal's logo is a water drop, welcomed over 3,300 Drupalistas from all over the world with four days of nearly non-stop rain!
I admittedly can be a bit of a rabble-rouser at times. I believe a lively, but productive and civil, debate will often bring about some breakthrough thinking and cutting edges ideas for solving challenges, especially those of our clients.
A support request recently came in where a client had changed hosting for their Drupal 7 website and found that their email had ceased to work. To resolve the issue, they installed the SMTP module to use an alternative email server for sending messages from Drupal.
As a Drupal Site Builder at 4Site, Drupal allows me to create a dynamic and scalable site without any programming. If you want to add functionality to your Drupal site there is usually a module that can do it.
Drupal has been our go-to CMS for building client websites since 2007.
Over the holidays I got to take a break from Drupal and spend nearly two weeks at home with my seven-year-old son. Just like I was at his age, my son is obsessed with Legos, so we built lots and lots of Lego sets. I’m amazed at how much Lego has evolved in the past mumblemumble years.
Something that’s seen a resurgence of late is the importance of SEO and site/page ranking (though if your job revolves around content, you’d probably say it never left).
We talk to Luke Probasco, Director of Marketing/Drupal General Manager at Townsend Security, about keeping your Drupal site safe. And on his first solo turn as host, Bryan sits down with Chanaka Perera, director of technical services at LCG, to chat about agile development.
As we announced previously, 4Site has just released HubDub, a Drupal module that leverages the jPlayer framework and Popcorn JS to overlay web content...
