Content comes in many shapes, forms and sizes. However, there are some common content patterns that we web designers and developers use quite often. One of these patterns is the combination of image, title, text and link to create a card-style teaser—often used, often created, often duplicated—and for good reason. Let’s take a look at… Continue reading Drupal Field Collections: Repeat with Style and Class
Protecting Your Investment with Routine Maintenance
Similar to routine oil changes and other maintenance services for your car, ongoing security patches and software updates are necessary to ensure your website stays protected and performant. In the sections below, we review the many factors that will help you determine the right plan and maintenance frequency to meet your website’s needs. When is… Continue reading Protecting Your Investment with Routine Maintenance
Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI – what’s it all mean?
There’s a term in SEO called Latent Semantic Indexing, abbreviated “LSI,” that essentially means that the software engineers are trying to program the algorithms to understand the message a web page conveys based on different variations of language used, as opposed to on repetition of specific keywords. Hmm, that wasn’t as clear as I hoped.… Continue reading Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI – what’s it all mean?
Using the Haversine Formula in Drupal 7
The Haversine formula is one of the easiest to use pieces of complicated math I’ve had the pleasure to use. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s pretty simple in theory – it’s an extension of the Pythagorean formula from a grid to the surface of a sphere, which basically means that you can use… Continue reading Using the Haversine Formula in Drupal 7
Google Shakes Up SEO
Google’s vision for a search engine is coming to fruition, changing how SEO works and resulting in a more relevant and functional search experience for everyone. Google’s quest to organize the internet began in 1996. As a text-based search engine, it made sense that content should determine a website’s ranking. However, black-hat spammers soon found… Continue reading Google Shakes Up SEO
Do You Have Unanswered Drupal PCI Compliance Questions?
Securing credit card transactions is an important yet daunting task for most eCommerce merchants. And while the community sponsored Drupal PCI Compliance White paper has helped bring awareness and clarity to the topic, important questions still remain. Do you have any unanswered questions or constructive feedback? It’s been almost two years since my colleagues and… Continue reading Do You Have Unanswered Drupal PCI Compliance Questions?
Help Others and Help Yourself: Use Meaningful Field Labels and Descriptions
Open source content management systems like Drupal and WordPress provide great tools for creating content types, adding fields, customizing field labels, and adding field-level help text that can essentially serve as built in content documentation for the site administrator. However they are only helpful if you use them. A Quick Embarrassing Story About six months… Continue reading Help Others and Help Yourself: Use Meaningful Field Labels and Descriptions
Five Ways to Class Up Your Website
Web evolution can result in dated design. Updated optimization will increase engagement, clicks, purchases, or other types of actions. Achieving a new, fresh site, with updated optimization can result in measurable business benefits. Stretch It Out Dated sites are in love with the boxed layout. Using your full real estate is the best practice when… Continue reading Five Ways to Class Up Your Website
Improve your Frontend Toolset with Grunt and LibSass
Learn how you can leverage Grunt and LibSass as groundwork to improve your Frontend Development process and deliver better optimized sites for clients. At NEWMEDIA we’ve been utilizing Sass and Compass compiled with Ruby for CSS Preprocessing for quite some time now in our Drupal projects. While this toolset has served us well, the toolset… Continue reading Improve your Frontend Toolset with Grunt and LibSass
9 Tips For WordPress Junkies Transferring to Drupal
How to achieve the same goals with both Drupal and WordPress: 9 Tips for Former WordPress Junkies Although there have been many blog posts making comparisons between Drupal and WordPress, the two most popular open-source content management systems, there is seldom mention of a comparison of the tools we as clients, developers, designers, business analysts,… Continue reading 9 Tips For WordPress Junkies Transferring to Drupal