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 Slot Games 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… 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
Drush Make: Evaluating the Benefits and Pain Points of Each Approach
Drush make is a popular solution for Drupal developers wishing to represent an entire application codebase in a single make file (or collection of make files), but does it always make sense to use? And is it a one size fits all solution? This article reviews several advantages and disadvantages of the more common approaches… Continue reading Drush Make: Evaluating the Benefits and Pain Points of Each Approach
NEWMEDIA is Ranked the #1 Web Designer in Denver by Clutch
We understand what it takes to build a website that converts for your business using advanced UX design concepts and SEO ranking techniques. Our 20+ year track record in an ever-shifting and evolving marketplace helps us recognize unforeseen business opportunities while simultaneously delivering unprecedented results. Because of that, we’ve been ranked as the #1 web designer in… Continue reading NEWMEDIA is Ranked the #1 Web Designer in Denver by Clutch
Avoiding the “API Integration Blues” on a Drupal Project
As Drupal continues to mature as a platform and gain adoption in the enterprise space, integration with one or more 3rd party systems is becoming common for medium to large scale projects. Unfortunately, it can be easy to underestimate the time and effort required to make these integrations work seamlessly. Here are lessons we’ve learned…… Continue reading Avoiding the “API Integration Blues” on a Drupal Project