JD Collier's Blog

May 11, 2012 by JD Collier
Newsletter header on my favorite enews

All of us get newsletters. I'm signed up for everything from my neighborhood news to web programming. The majority of these get less than a 10 second glance before I delete or trash them; but there are one or two I look forward to receiving and read everything they write. What makes these different?

April 26, 2012 by JD Collier
CiviCRM is a powerful constituent relationship management solution.

I'm just going to get this out of the way: CiviCRM is complex. Of course, it is complex. We are not comparing CiviCRM to a simple blogging platform or little piece of software to perform a simple task. CiviCRM is a constituent relationship management solution. It is a great solution to manage non-profits, advocacy and any membership-...

April 20, 2012 by JD Collier
Wordpress vs. Drupal: The Prize Fight!

I have developed very large, very small and every size website between. I have rolled my own CMS, used (and even developed extensions for) Typo3, Wordpress, Expression Engine, Mambo & Joomla, WebGUI, SharePoint, MonkCMS/Ekklesia360, DotNetNuke and Drupal. By far, I have been most loyal to Wordpress and Drupal.

April 6, 2012 by JD Collier
3 great Drupal 7 Modules you may have missed

I am such a nerd about Drupal modules … I get really excited when I think I need something that does [blank] and then I find a module that does exactly that. I love even more when I find a module that makes some UX or usability problem go away. We have talked about the Drupal 7 contrib...

March 30, 2012 by JD Collier
My recommended Chrome Extensions for web development

I started this blog post to sway Firefox users to give Chrome a try as their primary development browser. I discovered there are almost no differences now. The only reason I switched to Chrome a few years ago was speed compared to Firefox at the time. Today, that is not an issue. In fact, I just did an informal test on my machine and both browsers started in less than 2 seconds. Also, I can't tell a...

March 23, 2012 by JD Collier
CSS3

The day has come to stop focusing on Internet Explorer's limitations and start focusing on the other browsers that allow CSS3. It takes very little extra time, and you can add some sizzle with just a few extras in your CSS.

March 9, 2012 by JD Collier
Card sort organization method

There are many factors to consider when you organize the content of your site. How do you make sense of it? Here are the steps I take to help me through the process.

March 2, 2012 by JD Collier
How to respond to negative comments online

Do you know the story "Three Billy Goats Gruff"? There is a troll that lives under the bridge and he is preventing the three billy goats from crossing the bridge to get to greener pastures. What does this have to do with your business/website/life, you may ask?