Posts about Drupal

May 7, 2013 by Jonathan Dale
Building a Drupal website

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. 

April 2, 2013 by JD Collier
Make life with Drupal easier

Easy cheesy! Here are three quick wins you can add to your Drupal site to make your life easier today.

March 20, 2013 by Jonathan Dale
Drupal 8 meets Symfony

When I began using Drupal five years ago, Drupal 6 had just been released and closely resembled a custom-built solution I was using at the time. At the same time, I had also evaluated Symfony 1.1 and determined that it didn't quite meet my needs. Little did I know that five years later I would be using both.

February 19, 2013 by Jonathan Dale
Superfish mega menus

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.

February 6, 2013 by JD Collier
Help with browser testing

I'm excited about the future of web design/development. 

  • Screen-size agnostic approaches like responsive design using media queries. 
  • High resolution graphics. Apple has branded this high resolution display as a "Retina" display. Other manufacturers are beginning to come close to the same resolution level. No doubt, we...
January 23, 2013 by Jonathan Dale
Drupal Hubspot, Contributed Module

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...

January 9, 2013 by JD Collier
Drupal Development

"How do you build a website?" I have been asked this question by friends and family over the years, but I never know how to answer the question — mainly because there are too many variables, too many paths to the same goal. The funny thing is that I can quickly spot bad development on a site, and can come up with constructive criticism on the code or the design within seconds...

December 11, 2012 by Mark Figart
It's time to rethink our approach to how we manage the content lifecycle.

The so-called modern web Content Management System (CMS) has outlasted its utility and is failing content marketers. And still, it is one of the most important tools that we at Digett leverage on behalf of our enterprise clients in the deployment of systems to store and display content to an audience in the form of a website.

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