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Meet Our New Support Team
We know that balancing the ongoing needs of your website, your team, and your users can be a real challenge. We have developed a clear set of priorities and checkpoints to ensure your digital properties stay secure, up-to-date, and optimized for the long haul, and re-structured our process with those priorities in mind.
Talking to Screen readers with ARIA-live and Drupal.announce()
If content changes on your site and there’s a visual change to let users know, you need to make that change clear to folks who can’t see the visual cues. Drupal.announce is a JS method built into Drupal core that can make this easy.
Fast, Relevant, and Easy to Read
Building a site today is more complex than ever. Front-End developers need to balance the requirements of a design, the tools best suited for implementation, the long-term maintainability of the site by non-developers, and the ever-growing legal risks that can be part of a high-profile client site.
Programmatically Adding and Populating New Fields in Drupal 8
When working on our longer-term clients’ sites, we’re often asked to add a new field (or fields) to some kind of content, and in the same batch of code to add values to those new fields. This shouldn’t be a problem -- and mostly, it isn’t.
Drupal 9: An AFAQ
There are already lots of articles out there if you want to get excited about Drupal 9, so we’re going to focus on the more practical questions with an AFAQ (Anticipated Fearfully Asked Questions).
Four Questions Your Website Accessibility Statement Should Answer
Your accessibility statement is not just another contact form on your website.
Accessibility for Teams in a Hurry: Steps for Getting Started
Set goals that are both ambitious and reasonable.
Accessibility for Teams in a Hurry: Navigation
A reliable and accessible navigation system is a priority for any website.
Accessibility for Teams in a Hurry: Links & Buttons
When you do have to stop and think about what a button does, or where it goes or why it’s not working, it’s frustrating.
Accessibility for Teams in a Hurry: Color Contrast
Making accessible design decisions starts by establishing an accessible color palette.
Accessibility for Teams in a Hurry: Laying a Foundation
Accessibility is a complex topic and can feel overwhelming when you’re getting started.
Adding Webpack to a traditional Drupal theme
Learn how to bring your frontend into the future.
Is My Website Accessible?
You know how important accessibility is, but now what?
The Problems In Tech Go Deeper Than ‘Hacking’
What The Cut’s piece on Tinder reveals about how programmers are taught to disregard ethics
Recognizing Insecure Drupal Code
And, why you shouldn't allow users to input a SQL operator!
Amplifying the Voices of Those Affected by Voter Suppression
The launch of WeVoteWeCount.org and its importance today.
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Pixel Perfect Project Foundations: Part One of a Series
How to create websites that look good at any size, on any device.
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The Secrets of Keeping Your Content Editors Happy
With contributions from Tracey Whitney and Joe Komenda
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A Node by Any Other Name
Joe walks us through Drupal's idiosyncratic naming conventions!
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Automatic Page Generation with Custom Entity Routes
Drupal's paragraphs module can be used to make child pages automatically by using custom entity routes.
Space for Empathy
How do we make space for empathy in our work and in our community? Jules takes us on a deep dive into what she learned at this year's DrupalCon
Preparing for the GDPR
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations go into effect May 25th. Here's how you need to prepare.
The Great Hoodie Mystery
Gabe takes what would otherwise be an inane office exchange and ties it back to data structures.
Meet Bene, an affordable, open-source website solution for nonprofits
A low cost website for small nonprofits bundling content management, mission critical features, a tailored user experience, hosting, and strategic support.
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The WYSIWYG is a Lie
Drupal's CKEditor does not show the styles from the default theme. Let's fix that and make WYSIWYG true again.
Fade To Black - Responsive CSS Gradients
Smoothly transitioning from an image to a solid color can be tough. Let's make it easier.
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Skipping a Version - Migrating from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 with Drupal Migrate
The differences between Drupal 6 and Drupal 8 are pretty major, but thankfully, making the jump is singificantly easier with Drupal Migrate.
Using Google Docs and Migrate to Populate Your Drupal Site, Part 2
In part 2, learn how to get your own migration up and running.
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Using Google Docs and Migrate to Populate Your Drupal Site, Part 1
There's more than one way to migrate content to your site. In part one, we show you how with Migrate & Google Sheets.
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Nonprofit Payment Processing with iATS
Learn more about why we're such big fans of iATS Payments.
Demystifying Rendered Content in Drupal 8 Twig Files
New to Drupal 8 theming? These tips might make the learning curve a little less steep.
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Content Modeling in Drupal 8
Avoid creating overly complex content systems in Drupal by keeping these few things in mind.
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Drupal 8 Routing Tricks for Better Admin URLs
Utilize Drupal 8's routing system for a better admin experience.
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Drupal 8 File-based Configuration on Pantheon
Greg explores some of the benefits of file-based configuration with Pantheon.
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Syncing Up with Drupal 8 and Browsersync
Theming trouble? Try Browsersync!
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Customize Menu Items in Drupal User Profile
Learn how to change menu items with a little bit of code.
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Up and Theming with Drupal 8
Part 2 of our series dives into Drupal 8 theming.
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Up and Running with Drupal 8
Get going with Drupal 8 with the help of our two-part guides.
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Peer-To-Peer Fundraising With Drupal - RedHen Raiser
We take a closer look at a RedHen Raiser success story.
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Six Scary Words and Un-hacking Drupal
Getting hacked is terrifying, but it doesn't have to be.
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Creating Dynamic Menus in Jekyll
Building a CMS-like menu system without the overhead of the CMS
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Success Building CMS-less Production Sites with Jekyll
The challenges and solutions of building a CMS-less site that can be managed by the layman.
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Getting Started with Behat
Learn everything you need to know to start using Behat today.
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Nonprofit Website Benchmarks
Do you know what your site's metrics are telling you? We have some resources for you that can help.
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Deploying a Jekyll Site on GitHub, Travis CI, and Amazon S3
Using Travis CI to deploy a Jekyll based site to Amazon S3.
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Responsive Images in Drupal with the Picture Module
Want responsive images on your Drupal 7 site? Use a Drupal 8 backport to get the job done.
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Creating an Infinite Scroll Masonry Block Without Views
Having trouble applying infinite scroll to custom block content? We've got a process for that.
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Exporting Custom Date Formats in Drupal
Having trouble exporting dates in Drupal? We've got an easy solution for you.
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Getting Started with SASS for Drupal and Zen
Want to get started using SASS/Compass with Drupal?
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Don't fear the monkey! Introducing a friendlier MailChimp module.
Changes to our MailChimp module.
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7 Steps to Pain-Free Process Improvement for Growing Nonprofits
Common & problematic misunderstanding about whether problems are related to Process or Technology.
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Salesforce Integration with REST, OAUTH, and Entities
The Drupal Salesforce Suite has been around since Drupal 5, having undergone many transformations in trying to keep pace with both Drupal and Salesforce API changes. The result is a feature set as impressive as it is ambitious, although the incremental updates and additions have come at a cost of significant technical debt, inconsistent API usage, a monolithic architecture, and fragility.
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MailChimp adds Mandrill Integration & Campaign Creation
A long list of improvements and new features
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A beginner's guide to using Hudson for continuous integration with Drupal
The only way to make sure that installation profiles are built correctly is to build them up from scratch.