When contributing to an open source project as large as Drupal, it’s important to comply with the community’s coding standards for a variety of reasons: It helps maintain consistency in the code base. It reduces the time for submitted patches to get tested and accepted. It makes the code easier to debug and maintain. It… Continue reading Using the PHP-Drupal Textmate Bundle to Automatically Apply Coding Standards
Accessing Field Values in Drupal 7 Using field_get_items()
There are two great ways I’ve found to quickly access an entity’s field values in a Drupal-friendly way. Both of these approaches assume that you know the type of entity you’re working with and that you already have your entity loaded into a variable available to you. This week I’ll be focusing on the handy… Continue reading Accessing Field Values in Drupal 7 Using field_get_items()
Improve Your SEO for Events by Adding Rich Snippets
When google indexes a website, it does its best job to try and interpret and categorize the type of data it finds so that it can serve accurate and relevant results to everyone using its search engine. However, you can greatly enhance google’s accuracy by providing it additional data about your data (i.e. metadata, which… Continue reading Improve Your SEO for Events by Adding Rich Snippets
Improve Your SEO By Linking Your Content to Your Google+ Profile
Anyone trying to establish a online presence is always trying to improve their search engine rankings against the dozens, hundreds, or thousands of other websites competing for attention in that same niche. While there are many different ways of doing this (see our previous articles on SEO), one of the easiest ways to improve the quality of… Continue reading Improve Your SEO By Linking Your Content to Your Google+ Profile
Improving Drupal Development, Deliverables, and Dependability with Selenium Testing
I detest monkey work and I’ll do anything I can to avoid it. I attribute this intense, emotional reaction to a job I had at age 16, where I worked at a plastic factory inspecting box after box of clear vials to look for the defects (e.g. air bubbles, carbon black, mechanical indentations, etc). Overall… Continue reading Improving Drupal Development, Deliverables, and Dependability with Selenium Testing
Holland & Hart launches new Drupal site for Persuasion Strategies
Persuasion Strategies – In 1990 they became the first litigation consulting team serving in-house within a law firm to support trial attorneys and their clients. Their success quickly grew and they expanded our practice to attorneys and organizations outside of Holland & Hart LLP. Now their team services attorneys within the largest, most prestigious law… Continue reading Holland & Hart launches new Drupal site for Persuasion Strategies
GlobalTranz, $200 Million Logistics Expert, partners with NEWMEDIA
As one of the fastest growing transportation companies in the country, GlobalTranz has been recognized by the Inc. 500 and received the Phoenix Business Journal’s Arizona Corporate Excellence award, as the 2nd and 5th fastest growing companies in the state of Arizona for 2011 and 2012. With annual sales of over $200M, GlobalTranz strives for… Continue reading GlobalTranz, $200 Million Logistics Expert, partners with NEWMEDIA
Kaiser Permanente Launches New Drupal Site with NEWMEDIA
NEWMEDIA partnered with Kaiser Permanente to design, develop and deploy (and host) its new employee intranet, built on Drupal, using Organic Groups, serving the daily needs of Colorado’s 6,000+ Kaiser Permanente employees and physicians with newer, better and easier-to-use online tools. The new Drupal website application easily allows Kaiser Permanente administrators to create new department… Continue reading Kaiser Permanente Launches New Drupal Site with NEWMEDIA
Phoenix Children’s Hospital opts for Drupal over Convio
Phoenix Children’s Hospital has provided hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and families since 1983. Today, Phoenix Children’s is the third largest children’s hospital in the country and provides pediatric specialty and sub-specialty inpatient, outpatient, trauma, emergency and urgent care to children and families in Arizona and throughout the Southwest. With an enormous 10,000 page website, originally… Continue reading Phoenix Children’s Hospital opts for Drupal over Convio
SixFlags.com goes Drupal, and Mobile, with NEWMEDIA
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world’s largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties, and the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. Six Flags maintains 19 properties located throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family entertainment centers. When Six Flags decided to redo the entire SixFlags.com global website in Drupal, and then… Continue reading SixFlags.com goes Drupal, and Mobile, with NEWMEDIA