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5 simple things you can do to make your site more accessible
Web accessibility is about making websites accessible to people with disabilities. Those disabilities include everything from blindness and varying degrees of vision impairment to a broken bone in a...
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Why Care About Accessibility
In 2008, I met a person who had a mobility impairment. She had limited use of her arms and hands. While we were chatting, she mentioned some issues she was having with her computer. I was intrigued....
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Contrib Committee Status Report, February 2015
Our second month of having the contrib committee in place was a little slower in some ways than January. By the numbers, we put in just over 110 hours of non-billable time on contrib projects. There...
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Mediacurrent Acquired by Code and Theory: Our Journey
We are proud to announce that Mediacurrent has been acquired by Code and Theory, an independent creative agency that creates products, content and campaigns across physical and digital worlds.The...
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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 2
No Bob this week but we soldier on in this week's episode.Your browser does not support the audio element.Episode 2 Audio Download Link Show Notes Participants"Team Kool-aid" members and their...
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A Comparison of Drupal 7 Image Caption Methods using WYSIWYG Module with...
I recently had the opportunity to explore popular methods of adding captions to images inside the WYSIWYG editor using the setup of WYSIWYG module with CKEditor library. Our two main criteria were...
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The 5 Commandments of Accessible Forms
We’ve already discussed why accessibility matters and whetted your appetite on accessibility by providing a few simple things you can do to make your site more accessible. Now it’s time to look at...
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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 3
This week on the show we will be discussing the new Configuration Management system in Drupal 8 based on an article by Victor Kane, and once again dive into RESTFUL Drupal, or Headless as the cool kids...
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Using Third Party Wrappers
Chances are decent that at some point you've needed to provide some third party service with styling information so that they can have their service look as though it were part of your website. The...
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Why Good Markup Matters
I recently had the opportunity to work on a project for one of our clients that consisted of building two landing pages using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This is not a typical project for us, almost...
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Drupalcon LA - Mediacurrent’s Gameplan
We’re gearing up for Drupalcon 2015 in sunny Los Angeles and we are looking forward to the exciting plans we have in store. We are Platinum sponsors once again and there are a ton of ways to connect...
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Top Drupal 7 Modules: Final Edition
INTRODUCTION TO JAY’S MODULE LISTIf you have been to the Mediacurrent blog before you have probably seen my Top 50 modules lists for Drupal 6 and 7. This current list will be my final update for Drupal...
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Contrib Committee Status Review for March, 2015
Another month, another swath of work to improve our favorite content management system.The Usual (Contrib) SuspectsOnce again some of our main achievements during March was on client-sponsored work,...
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Contrib Committee Status Review for April, 2015
The fourth month of the year brought reminders that Winter can show up at unexpected times, with snow flurries during the early parts of the month. It also reminded us that we can only juggle so much....
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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 5
Our first foray into public during Drupalcon Los Angeles. Bob, Jason and Mark are live interviewing anyone who showed up to our BOF (Birds of a Feather) and gave away fancy Weekly Drop T-shirts. We...
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Highlights From DrupalCon Los Angeles
Last week, many of us were in sunny Los Angeles for DrupalCon 2015. Though many were seasoned veterans, it was my first time at a Con. It was a whirlwind of team building, a magical Prenote, great...
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Introducing Metatag 1.5
One of the most commonly used modules for helping with a Drupal 7 site’s SEO is Metatag. A rewrite of the Drupal 5 & 6 module Nodewords, Metatag provides a flexible system for customizing the meta...
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Advanced Layouts with Flexbox
If you’ve been doing web design and development for a while you may remember the days when creating website layouts involved tables or browser specific techniques. Things got a lot better when we began...
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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 6
This episode we have a special guest, Mickey Williamson, who talks about the importance of Web Accessibility. We also talk about developing a restful todo application with Backbone.js and as always,...
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Migrating Weather.com To Drupal: Increased Content Portability
In November, 2014 Weather.com launched on Drupal and became one of the highest trafficked websites in the world to launch on an open-source content management system (CMS). Mediacurrent and Acquia are...
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