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State of the Panels Union
One of the most loved display architectures available for Drupal, the Panels module and its many related projects have come a long way from rather humble beginnings as a customizable dashboard for...
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Contrib Committee Status Review for May, 2015
As with most other Drupal development studios, our May was dominated by DrupalCon. For the first week we were doing final preparations - making sure everything was ready for our booth, adding the final...
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Video: Metatag 1.5
With meta tags still being important for search engine optimization and improving how content looks when shared via social networks like Facebook and Twitter, it's worth learning how to use Drupal's...
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Migrating Weather.com To Drupal: Improved Page Load Times
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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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 7
In this episode we celebrate the founding of our country by talking up a few modules we have discovered and enjoy. Ryan talks about the Image Field Focus module and how it makes cropping a joy without...
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Mediacurrent is Gearing Up for NYC Camp
We all know one of the best things about Drupal is the community. If you’re looking to learn more or make connections, there’s almost always a meet-up, camp or other event nearby. Some of those camps,...
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Getting your Drupal 6 site ready to run on PHP 5.6
The Drop isn't the only thing that is moving; so is PHP. If you have a Drupal 6 site you are most likely running PHP 5.3 or older, versions that stopped being supported in 2014 or prior. Now that PHP...
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Solr Integrations with Drupal Sarnia Module
Every day, companies and organizations with lots of content are weighing the pros and cons of adopting Drupal. Often, this decision takes the form of “to what extent should we adopt Drupal” - meaning...
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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 8
This episode we welcome Shellie Hutchens, Mediacurrent’s Marketing Director, to talk about upcoming webinars and and the fact that Mediacurrent is hiring. Ryan picked Stage File Proxy as the Module of...
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Describing Images for Improved Web Accessibility
One of the most basic techniques of web accessibility is adding alternative texts to images. It is possibly the single biggest thing you can do to make your site more accessible. In fact, it is the...
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Cleaner and semantic markup with Drupal’s views
A few months ago I wrote about why good markup matters. As a front-end developer, I interact with Drupal’s markup on a daily basis and I experience first-hand the benefits of good markup and the...
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Accessible Names - Label All the Things! (Part 1)
The more we label things when building a website, the easier it is for a person who is blind and uses a screen reader to use our sites. These labels are known as the “accessible name properties” and...
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Migrating Weather.com To Drupal: Creating Flexible Widgets Across Multiple...
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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Accessible Names - Label All the Things! (Part 2)
Label the Rest of the Things!Native accessible name properties that we discussed in part 1 are all great, but there are situations where these don’t suffice - where either no method for providing an...
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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 10
This episode we have Mario Hernandez, front end developer at Mediacurrent, to talk about his upcoming talks at DrupalCamp LA, and how to properly plan for giving a presentation. We talk about the...
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Contrib Committee Status Review for August, 2015
With many members of staff on vacation for part of the month, and with some projects under crunch to finish off, August was a little light for contributions. That said, I think we made some good...
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How to Budget a Drupal Project
…(silence)This is what I hear most often when asking an organization what amount of money, or budget, they have set aside for their website project. Am I surprised? Not really. An enterprise website is...
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Introducing Drupal Through Its Community
When you ask people, “What makes Drupal different?” you can expect a variety of answers. Many people are likely to point to its flexibility. The technically-minded might reference Drupal’s hook system...
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How to Prevent Crazy Crunch Times
We all have been in situations when there are crazy crunch times before a release. Folks are working long, hard hours. Frequent last minute builds are done to fix issues and put in functionality. New...
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Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 11
This episode, we prattle on for quite some time. We go over the results from The Weekly Drop’s customer survey, and talk about multi-site Drupal and the Paragraph and Inline Entity Form modules in the...
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