Adding custom styles and classes to your WYSIWYG, a 5 minute run down
More and more these days, we need to add custom styles to content that the user enters. This can be a challenge for front end developers as we don't know how the information will be entered and have...
View ArticleAcquia’s Dev Desktop - a Drupal server for beginners
Web development can be complicated. When it comes to contributing to Drupal, either on one’s own time or as part of a job, one of the biggest problems beginners have is getting all of the tools working...
View ArticleFriday 5: 5 Benchmarks for Selecting a Digital Agency
Welcome back to the third episode of The Mediacurrent Friday 5!This week, Managing Partner Paul Chason discusses 5 Benchmarks for Selecting a Digital Agency. Choosing an agency to trust with your most...
View ArticleMore reasons to come to Drupalcon New Orleans
Are you on the fence about coming to DrupalCon North America in New Orleans, May 9 - 13, 2016? If the addition of three new session tracks or the record setting 767 proposed sessions isn’t enough to...
View ArticleFriday 5: 5 Minutes on Configuring Your Drupal Site
We made it to the end of another busy work week! Welcome back to Episode 4 of The Mediacurrent Friday 5.This week, Drupal Developer Ryan Gibson spends 5 Minutes on Configuring Your Drupal Site. With...
View ArticleBuilding Wunderground.com with Drupal and Angular 2: An Introduction
In an ongoing web project with Weather Underground, the Mediacurrent development team is breaking new ground with decoupled Drupal and Angular 2. The endeavor has required refactoring the Presentation...
View ArticleEasy Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible
I recently had the opportunity to give a beginners talk about website accessibility at MidCamp 2016 where I covered some easy ways to promote accessibility in terms of structure, color and contrast,...
View ArticleBuilding an Accessibility Toolbar with Drupal
In November 2015, a team from Mediacurrent participated in Knowbility’s accessibility hackathon. One of the features we created for the site was an accessibility toolbar. We were able to increase the...
View ArticleFriday 5: 5 Drupal 8 Development Tips
We hope you're having a great week! Thanks for joining us for the fifth episode of The Mediacurrent Friday 5.This week, Drupal Developer Derek Reese gives you 5 Drupal 8 Development Tips. He provides...
View ArticleAMP’lify Your Website: Google AMP 101
Google just recently released a new open-source initiative called the Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project. The AMP project aims to implement a performance baseline to provide a better mobile...
View ArticleDon't Rely on the Title Attribute for Accessibility
What is the Title Attribute?The title attribute is often used to give additional information about an element. Content editors will find a field for it when they add a link or an image to the WYSIWYG....
View ArticleBuilding Wunderground.com with Drupal & Angular 2: How to Bootstrap...
In an ongoing web project with Weather Underground, the Mediacurrent development team is breaking new ground with decoupled Drupal and Angular 2. The endeavor has required refactoring the Presentation...
View ArticleBuilding Wunderground.com with Drupal & Angular 2: Component Reuse on a Page...
In an ongoing web project with Weather Underground, the Mediacurrent development team is breaking new ground with decoupled Drupal and Angular 2. The endeavor has required refactoring the Presentation...
View ArticleBuild your QA Department- Part 1: Laying a Foundation
About meWith 15 years of experience in the Information Technology field, and 10 of those years focused on leadership, I’ve learned first hand the value of investing in people and setting them up for...
View ArticleDropcast: Episode 18- Try Try Again
This episode we are going to have an interview with Matt Davis, to talk about his work with Weather Underground, and decoupling Drupal from the presentation layer, or die trying. This is our second...
View ArticleFriday 5: 5 Tips to Building a Creative Team
We made it to the finish line of another busy work week!Thanks for joining us for the sixth episode of The Mediacurrent Friday 5. This week, Creative Director Dante Taylor provides 5 Tips to Building a...
View ArticleNew eBook: Intranets the Drupal Way
The Intranet has entered a new era where 78% of companies are running on open source software. Now, options for corporate Intranets are no longer confined to proprietary platforms.Your Intranet on...
View ArticleWhat it really means to run a project the “Agile Scrum” way
If you were to search “What is the Agile Scrum Methodology of project management?” you’d find this:“…an alternative to traditional project management, typically used in software development. It helps...
View ArticleResource Guide: Version Controlled Drupal Development Using Git, Bitbucket &...
As a veteran web developer of nearly 20 years, one of the more difficult things I ran into when I started with Mediacurrent, a Drupal agency, was working within the constraints of a version control...
View Article20 Things You Must Know Before Approaching A Web Agency
Before you engage with a new agency to build or redesign your site, there are some key data points you should know about your existing site.In this post, I’ll cover what you need to know about your...
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