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Providing the content creator a field with a list of values to choose from is a common requirement when building a Drupal site. It’s also something that can be achieved in a variety of ways, each having pros and cons to the approach. Texas Creative’s web team has developed a module that we believe fills a missing gap in this type of field called Existing Values Autocomplete Widget. In the following analysis, we will discuss each possible approach, the use case for it, along with an example.

A satirically cynical guide for coping with your next project.   There comes a time in every designer’s career when a dark cloud descends over our pastoral workspace and someone commissions an original design created in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. A dubious request, castrating our professional expertise, the Microsoft Office “Template” has the side-effect of sending any seasoned artist into an emotional, design-purgatory. Yet there is light at the end of the tunnel, and

I find myself surprised when I discover that various InDesign features that I use religiously are features unused by other graphic designers. Enter the preflight panel. Combing through your InDesign documents for errors used to be a long and tedious process, but the preflight panel can automate the entire process based on presets that you can create. Starting with InDesign CS4, there has been a somewhat secret, but powerful, preflight panel. It’s usually turned on automatically, (but I tend to

Have you ever Googled yourself? A majority of companies aren’t pleased with the results that they find when they Google themselves, and with good reason. Your company's online presence can make or break you. What happens to pop up during a Google search that’s aimed at your company can bring you a new client or a lost opportunity. Google is the best friend to many, which isn’t a huge secret to anyone considering 83% of online searches happen through Google. However, 91% of online adul

“How was your day?” If your answer is, “Same as yesterday,” you definitely don’t work here. A day in the life of a vibrant marketing firm like ours is, to say the very least, diverse. Each is a one-off, replete with unique challenges and new opportunities to wrap our minds around the marketing needs of a myriad of different businesses, industries, services and philanthropies. If variety is the spice of life, we’re one very zesty organization. On a daily basis, we’re channeling our