Development

You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!

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…

Updating a D6 -> Drupal 8.0.x migration to Drupal 8.1.x

We have several Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 upgrade projects going on, which is particularly…

Drupal 8 migration status and surprises

We're digging into our first dry-run migrations from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8, and learning a lot…

Upgrade to Drupal 8? This is our plan for migration

I'm sure many of you reading this may have heard that Drupal 8 has been released, may have even…

Behavior Driven Design in practice: A Behat test run

For many years, we've organized our development around user stories. What exactly is each user…

Drupal Dates off by timezone offset, after upgrading date module

Just a quick note of how we resolved an issue related to an upgrade to Date.

We recently…

Why tech work is so hard to estimate

"Hey, since the upgrade, I can't use the power edit feature anymore!" came the request. Ok.…

Successful projects, part 2: Paying for Deliverables

Clients love fixed-price projects, because they have transferred the risk of the unknowns to the…

Keeping up with the Changes

There's a few problems with setting up shop on the web. All of your competitors are right next…

A note to people planning development projects

1. EMBRACE YOUR INNER PESSIMIST...

This doesn't mean you can't be your usual, happy-go-lucky…