When building a Drupal website, you need to ensure you have thoroughly tested the site before you turn it over to your client. If a client discovers a significant issue, it degrades their trust and can cost sales if the problem is enough to block a website visitor's ability to interact with the site.
We have depended on Google Chrome Frame to help us direct website visitors on older browsers to modern alternatives. Specifically, we use the Drupal Chrome Frame module to quickly implement this functionality.
Google has announced they are retiring Chrome Frame January 2014.
I really don't want to do nothing—I don't want visitors on old browsers to just see a broken site.
The Drupal community already has an answer (actually, this module has been around for over a year). After some research, we are trying out jReject.
Everplans.com is a website meant to help people prepare for and deal with death. The previous iteration of their site presented numerous technical challenges, making it difficult for their team to achieve their goals. It became Digett's job to give Everplans a website that works for, not against, its users and administrators.
Easy cheesy! Here are three quick wins you can add to your Drupal site to make your life easier today.
Doesn't everyone say to stay nimble, to be flexible? Yes, but you need to pick your battles and flex within some boundaries. When you go through a project with a client to build a new marketing plan and website … don't skimp on the process.
Early last year, we discussed a few of the available solutions for building mega menus in Drupal 7. At that time, the method for building a Simple Mega Menu required doing some calculations and applying that logic using CSS. Now we have an even easier method available via the Superfish module.
I'm excited about the future of web design/development.
The process of including IE7 and now even IE8 in my workflow feels "post war" and not current, modern or exciting. I remember the beautiful day when I stopped supporting IE6 a few years ago — the world was full of CSS promise.
When I explain to family and friends what I do for a living, the immediate image in their mind is of the lone kid sitting in front of a computer in the middle of the night. The reality is that the work I do goes far beyond that and tends to include meeting with clients, setting expectations, and developing design and implementation plans. As part of my role here at Digett, I also look for ways in which we can help contribute to the open source community, and specifically to Drupal.
As the need for a strong online presence crystallizes for businesses, there are sudden calls for new websites: “Make it flashy, make it profound, make it digital!” Design matters, but the reality is that your website needs to be valuable to the audience and customers you serve.
VisitBoerne.org paints a picture of Boerne, Texas that entices visitors to take the journey on I-10 to the hub of the Hill Country. The new website for the Boerne Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), VisitBoerne.org brings the vibrance of Boerne to life while remaining an easily navigable information resource for the details any tourist would need to know.
