We've worked with many clients over the years, who all have very specific website development needs. While some clients may share common goals, each may approach those business goals in different ways. But, time and time again, we usually start by asking a client in what ways are they measuring their website's effectiveness. In this 4 part series, I'll discuss identifying purpose and overcoming obstacles, complaints of current site capabilities and establishing budget, metrics to success and selecting a vendor, then finally risk tolerance and disaster recovery planning.
Drupal Planet
🕑Dec 22, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Drupal 8 Configuration Management in the real world - workflow and gotchas
Panacea, or disaster? Drupal 8 Configuration Management was supposed to solve all our woes when it came to dealing with deploying configuration. In many ways it's a vast improvement, but in some ways it has almost made matters worse.
🕑Oct 27, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Drupal vs WordPress: Why there are no objective comparisons
WordPress versus Drupal. Republican versus Democrat. Two debates where the differences seem so broad, people can't even seem to agree upon fundamental facts. Why? Why is it so hard to find an objective, clear comparison of WordPress and Drupal? I've had several people ask this.
🕑Oct 06, 2016 🖋John Locke
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11 Questions Businesses need to ask themselves when choosing a Drupal host: The Comprehensive Freelock Hosting Guide
When choosing any service provider, a crucial question is, "What happens if something goes wrong?" When you're choosing a hosting provider, we like to dig a bit deeper, and ask what risks are likely to be an issue for you?
Here are some of our questions:
🕑Sep 05, 2016 🖋John Locke
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D8 Development: Console, Menus, and Entity load/save basics
I learn best when I have a problem to solve, and with one of our D8 upgrade projects, we had a mess to clean up in the menu system.
🕑Aug 04, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Fixing broken URL Aliases on a Drupal 6 -> Drupal 8 migration
So there are definite "gotchas" to migrating content from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8, when you take away the assumption that the ids throughout the system will remain the same.
🕑Jul 14, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Ask Freelock: Why haven't you migrated to Drupal 8?
Richard asks:
Just a question after reading an article posted here back from January 21, 2016 on Drupal 8, why Freelock.com has not moved to Drupal 8? Just wondering if there was a particular reason we should avoid before jumping in? Thanks.
🕑Jul 13, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Why you need maintenance on your Drupal Site
Yesterday the Drupal security team gave a dire warning about extremely dangerous security vulnerabilities in multiple contributed modules. The fixes, and the details, would be released at 9am Pacific Time today.
🕑Jul 08, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Git Branch Strategy meets Continuous Deployment
Our branch strategy based on Git Flow did not survive. It was getting a bit old in the tooth, but the final blow was automation.