The main difference between JavaScript and most other languages is that JavaScript allows us to create a function as a stand alone entity, and to pass it as an argument to a method, which can accept it as a parameter, just as we can any other object type. This allows us to create compact code… Continue reading The Importance of Functions in JavaScript
Hexadecimal to rgba Conversion with Sass
If you like using hexadecimal number formats over rgb, but also like the ‘a’ in rgba, then you may want to consider using the Sass rgba function. The function takes two parameters: the first one is the hexadecimal color, the second is the alpha value. Converting a dark gray hex to rgba black with 50… Continue reading Hexadecimal to rgba Conversion with Sass
Denver Drupal: Leading Way to Expand your Business
With the emergence of latest development technologies in the web development segment, various web based firms are evolving at the pacing need. As the enterprise field transforming to the online commercial platform so the need of such web services becoming quite necessary. Revolution of online business will meet the user’s requirements significantly and that’s why… Continue reading Denver Drupal: Leading Way to Expand your Business
Value Your Investment while Hiring SEO Services
As you have developed the website and make it ready for the market platform to showcase your products and services for sale but left the online marketing may diminish your presence in the online arena. To increase the web presence and search engine visibility of your website you need the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy… Continue reading Value Your Investment while Hiring SEO Services
NMD Team Day 2013!
It’s that time of the year again, NEWMEDIA’s Team Day! I am one of the newbies on the team, but I know we all look forward to our company’s quarterly team days! Client dedication, productivity, and being “heads down” in our work is typically how we roll around here but we also know that balance… Continue reading NMD Team Day 2013!
Setting Up and Locking Down Secure Pages for Drupal
Any Drupal website that deals with sensitive data (e.g. credit cards, medical records, etc) should have an SSL connection enabled in order to encrypt the transmission of said data back and forth from the website. Unfortunately, installing securepages (a popular module for serving SSL enabled pages) can be a frustrating process for first time users. This goals… Continue reading Setting Up and Locking Down Secure Pages for Drupal
Beautiful Fonts for the Web
You may not know it, but something amazing has happened over the past few years in regards to the web and typography. I know that fonts may not be the most interesting topic to talk about, but for a type geek like me, it’s very exciting. You need to know that you have choices these… Continue reading Beautiful Fonts for the Web
Drupal DevOps Meetup Moved
On Thursday, September 19 NEWMEDIA will be hosting a meetup at our offices in Downtown Denver. This meetup will be focused on DevOps. We will begin by focusing on the individual and address specific solutions that can be used by a single person doing Drupal development. We will then branch out and discuss specific workflows,… Continue reading Drupal DevOps Meetup Moved
SASS Partials and The Problems Surrounding Them
When doing front end work on a project that you are new to, there is often the question of what theme is being used and back in the old day, how is the CSS set up. Now with SASS we are in a whole new world of organization and structure that can tend to be… Continue reading SASS Partials and The Problems Surrounding Them
Define Text Format in Drupal Migrate Field Mappings
In migrate, defining a text format for a mapped field is fairly straightforward. $this->addFieldMapping(‘field_about_us:format’) ->defaultValue(‘full_html’); What we’re doing in the example above is mapping the default value “full_html” to the “format” subfield of the “field_about_us” field. This essentially sets the text format to full_html for data migrated into our content type. More field-mapping specific information… Continue reading Define Text Format in Drupal Migrate Field Mappings