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Seeking Awesome

Seeking Awesome

By Texas Creative

Pursuing a higher level of work performance, respect among coworkers and just plain fun. I think it’s safe to say that everyone appreciates people who do awesome things, especially when it applies to the people that they work with. At Texas Creative, we’ve had an “Awesome Program” in place for years that’s designed to give our employees a platform for venting their appreciation of a coworker’s awesome work performance. It’s a way for the employee to say “thank you” to a coworke
Pros and Cons of Slack

Pros and Cons of Slack

By Texas Creative

In today’s work environment, breaks at the water cooler are a thing of the past. Most companies are using instant messaging platforms for internal communication between employees, and Texas Creative is one of those companies. We use Slack to communicate with our fellow employees throughout the workday. As a Traffic Manager, I’ve come to learn that there are both pros and cons to using this platform.  Pros:  You can create “channels” within the company. For example, you can have Slack
Basic Migration of File Fields to Media Entities Fields in Drupal 8

Basic Migration of File Fields to Media Entities Fields in Drupal 8

By Jaime Contreras

The Migrate File to Media module provides an easy way to migrate old file fields like images, files, videos, etc, into the media entities with a few drush commands. So you can have an understanding of how the migration process works, In this tutorial, we will run through a few quick step-by-step instructions on how to migrate specific image field types to image entity reference fields. Media Module The core media module is what creates the “media” entity types. If you haven’t set this up
4 Steps to Integrated Marketing Strategies

Integrated Marketing Strategies

By Texas Creative

Have you ever seen a piece of creative and thought - where the heck did that come from? Was it totally off brand? Well, it’s time we talked about Integrated Marketing Strategies and why they are so important.  An Integrated Marketing Strategy is defined by coordinating creative strategy and messaging across several tactics throughout a marketing plan. By creating a unified experience for consumers to interact with your brand, you are controlling and honing in on exactly what you want the cons
Drupal 8 Basic Media and Media Browser Setup for beginners

Drupal 8 Basic Media and Media Browser Setup for beginners

By Jaime Contreras

This is a beginner’s tutorial that will quickly get you up and running with media entities and a media entity browser in Drupal 8. One of the best parts of Drupal 8 is the in-core feature of media entities. This allows Drupal to manage resources that otherwise it would not be able to. It accomplishes this by creating a bridge relationship between Drupal’s CMS, media files and external sources. It’s basically an entity referencing all kinds of media files like images, videos, documents or o