Blog Posts - Author: Art Williams
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First Impressions During a Drupal 8 Website Build
By Art Williams
It’s Official! We have finished setting up the necessary infrastructure and processes for building client sites in Drupal 8 moving forward. A lot of that work was done during our first Drupal 8 website build, which is nearing completion. What follows is a brief glance of my first impressions and future aspirations about Drupal 8 development.
The Project
As website builds worked their way through the pipeline in the first part of 2016, I was on the lookout for the right one to
Common Drupal 7 Coding Mistakes: Part 1
By Art Williams
This series will cover three Drupal 7 mistakes that I see regularly when training developers, or perusing the issue queues of Drupal modules, and I’ve personally made each of these mistakes. Getting a handle on these concepts, and breaking these bad habits will make you a better Drupal developer.
Using [‘und’]? You’re Doing It Wrong
Whether it’s in your theme’s template.php file or the custom field formatter module you wrote, don’t use [‘und’] ... ever ... seriously ... d
Category:Web Development
Choosing the right CMS for your website
By Art Williams
As a client of a communication firm or marketing agency, why does it matter what content management system (CMS) is used to build your site? More importantly, should you even care? These are difficult questions, but that’s why we’re here to help you answer them.
The Right Partner
If you don't read any further, pay attention to this … the right development partner that understands your objectives and has the expertise and desire to help you attain them is worth more than any CMS. No matter
Texas Creative & Heartbleed
By Art Williams
Notice: We've investigated our hosted resources along with Rackspace, our hosting provider and have determined that our production hosting platform is not vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. We're not using the vulnerable version of OpenSSL on our production server.
What's Heartbleed?
In order to encrypt a website with an SSL certificate, encryption keys are generated. The most common program used to encrypt, transmit and confirm these keys is OpenSSL. The security vulnerability that was discovere