Strategy Cookbook

Our intrepid reporter finds himself at another DrupalCon, getting to the bottom of things – with Dries Buytaert, Angie Byron, Morten DK, and Holly Ross.

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something Dru(pal). Revisioning can be straightforward, simple – and visible – with CPS. But do be careful.

Your client’s e-commerce website is their precious home sweet home – and a major investment. Storing spent nuclear reactor rods in the basement is probably not a terrific idea.

As the field of website auditing expands and comes to resemble financial auditing, it’s time to employ a code of standards and ethics. Here’s why and how.

With Drupal 8 soon out of beta, look for Debian 8 to arrive on its heels. For large- scale Drupal projects, a dose of Drubian may be just what the doctor ordered.

In this fifth article on Drush, we learn to simplify and customize many of those pesky, repetitious, cramp- inducing commands.

Sometimes it feels like early- onset Alzheimer’s – the inability of your perfectly sound mind to remember a bit of code, a file name, or a keyword you used just last... uh, whenever. Fortunately, everything you’ll ever need to know is right there at the tip of a search. Just be careful you don’t tumble down that bottomless SEO rabbit-hole.

Does your team have a wayfinder? Someone who knows something about everyone’s function, can direct traffic, connect the info-needy to an info-provider, buffer with the client, order lunch, cheerlead, and provide a shoulder to cry on? The wayfinder may not be you, but you can still learn some of those skills to amp up your team’s performance.

No website remains static. In building a Drupal website for Public Radio International (PRI.org), the author’s team utilized system-based thinking – Atomic Design – to create a reusable, evolving site, providing flexibility and growth, with ease and efficiency into the future.

No, you don’t have to spend years writing code in order to set your startup in motion. Instead of building that prototype, just create a pretotype, which lets you toss a lot of stuff on the wall to see what sticks. What’s a pretotype? Read on.

Although 90% of the data humans ever created may have been generated in the past two years, great content is not enough. Your organization needs a plan, with defined goals and an understanding of your audience; content provides the connection.

Once upon a time, Drupal themers had every reason to be angry. Angry! Come on – modern times call for modern methods, including a shake-up in CSS architecture, theme functions, markup placement, and much much more. Drupal 8 to the rescue. Frontenders, rejoice!

Ah, dear Drupal developer, no longer need you cower under your desk and curse when you hear the words “complex multilingual site.” The bad old days are gone. Drupal 8 is here to make your content sparkle across multiple sites in multiple languages.