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 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

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

Porter Robotics & Centura Health choose NEWMEDIA

As the first comprehensive robotic surgery program in Denver and the Rocky Mountain region the Porter Robotics Institute (PRI), at Porter Adventist Hospital, performs more robotic surgeries, for more conditions, than any other facility with a robot in Colorado. Porter is sponsored by the Adventist Health System and is connected to Centura Health, Colorado’s health care leader, with its… Continue reading Porter Robotics & Centura Health choose NEWMEDIA

Securitas Enhances Security with NEWMEDIA

Securitas is a global security services monitoring, consulting and investigation group, based in Stockholm, Sweden. The group has approximately 300,000 employees in 50 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In the USA, Securitas employs over 650 local branch managers and more than 90,000 security officers who provide unmatched… Continue reading Securitas Enhances Security with NEWMEDIA