Blog Posts - Drupal

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

Whether you are new to Drupal or a total Drupal superstar with 1,000,000 hours on the metaphorical “Drupal wheel”, making decisions about what modules to update to what version is not as straight-forward as it sounds. We’ve found many situations where the Drupal update page actually suggests that you “upgrade” a module to an older version. This has resulted in regressions and extra work more times than we’d care to admit. But it is clearly a problem begging for a good solution. Our f

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

#Celebr8D8 with @texascreative developers @To_Be_Benji & @jvative. pic.twitter.com/LM1E2IcvX5 — Art Williams (@ArtisWilliams) November 20, 2015 Inevitably, if you are a Drupal-based agency, and have been around for awhile, with the trumpeted release of Drupal 8, you will get some variation of the following questions: Client: “You tell me my site is on Drupal 7, and that you keep it up to date, but I see that Drupal 8 is out ... what!? And why do I need to rebuild a ‘new’ site to get

Sometime back in the mid to late 2000s when most web developers/designers began seeing the writing on the wall when it came to content management systems, most of us bit the bullet and also decided try one out. After all, our clients were pushing for it and it’s what all the cool kids were doing, so we begrudgingly fit it into our workflow. Open-source CMS's drew the most attention, especially the ‘big three’ — Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. Naturally, I was curious about each so I evalua