Website Usability
Unfortunately, one of the recurring challenges when an organization designs, builds, or rebuilds their website is that they forget why they are buildi
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Clutter/Simplicity
User Experience
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 pag
A Flash of Insight
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.
8 Reasons Why Drupal 8
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!
Embed or integrate? The problem with widgets
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.
Ask Freelock: Build, embed, or integrate SaaS with Drupal?
Mike, looking for information about integrating a data collection Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, asked:
Dojo Toolkit UI experiments
Making a Tourism Site in Drupal (and the Lessons to Learn)
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.