Unfortunately, one of the recurring challenges when an organization designs, builds, or rebuilds their website is that they forget why they are building the website. Design mock-ups turn into discussions about “oooh—I like that!” or it’s evil step-sister—“oh man, I hate that!” The design and graphical representation of the mockup often trumps website usability.
If you’re not a website developer, it’s hard to know what works and what doesn’t work on a website. You can get all the right information onto the pages, but how do you know if a visitor will be able to navigate smoothly to the information they need? How do you know if the site is pleasing enough for them to stay on and click through?
Picture this:
Its name is Watney. Watney lives in Matrix. Watney is a bot I created about 6 months ago to start helping us with various tasks we need to do in our business.
Watney patiently waits for requests in a bunch of chat rooms we use for internal communications about each website we manage, each project we work on. Watney does a bunch of helpful things already, even though it is still really basic -- it fetches login links for us, helps us assemble release notes for each release we do to a production site, reminds us when it's time to do a release, and kicks off various automation jobs.
Drupal 8 has been out for 2 months now, and there's never been a better time to choose Drupal for your website platform. Here are 8 reasons why!
We hear it all the time:
Why do you recommend a 6 hour budget for a simple integration? Here's an embed widget right here -- if this were WordPress I could do it myself!
Well, in Drupal you can do it yourself, exactly the same way you might in WordPress. Add a block, use an input format that doesn't strip out Javascript, paste in your code, put the block where you want it on your page, and away you go.
Mike, looking for information about integrating a data collection Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, asked:
When the Olympic Peninsula Tourism Commission came to Freelock Computing to convert their static HTML site into a newly designed, Drupal-driven CMS, I'm not going to lie, a few drops of drool fell from my mouth.
