Sharing Our Thoughts on All Things Digital

We're really excited about our new Web Fundamentals Training which we've added to our training program this week.

If you want to get into Drupal development and don't have the pre-requisite knowledge, this is the course for you! It covers the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. We've had many students over the years who wanted to take our Drupal theming and module development courses, but didn't have a programming background because they require basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, programming. 

With so many shiny new Drupal modules emerging this year, we were hard pressed to pick our recommendations for 2018. It came down to asking ourselves: which modules are we excited about implementing in 2018… the ones that will make our projects better, faster, smarter brighter? Read on for our list of Drupal modules we're excited about.

Create beautiful responsive sites with collapsible menus or regions with the Sidr module for Drupal, which lets your site go responsive with style.

A tutorial on how to create custom migration source plugins for Drupal with sample code. Learn how to create or modify source plugins to make Drupal migrations even more flexible.

A case study on how Blackfire helped us get a 98% improvement in performance on a heavy migration by changing around two lines of code!

A tutorial on migrating URL aliases and URL redirects with Drupal migrations to improve SEO by avoiding 404 errors and broken URLs.

Anyone who owns a website knows the value of Google Analytics - a free tool from Google that gives you a ton of useful information about who is visiting your site, how they are getting to it, what they are doing and much more! As with most of the cases, we can configure this tool to do more than it does out of the box.

Learn how to migrate translated content from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. This tutorial is about migrating translations created with the Content Translation module.

⚠️ November 2020 update: We've written an updated version of this tutorial with new code samples. Read it here.

Since the release of Drupal 8 with a standardized way of managing translations, many sites running Drupal 7 are making a switch to Drupal 8. In Drupal 7 there are two ways to translate content:

I train a lot of new Drupal users. Some find it easy-to-use and some find it a daunting maze of forms full of confusing terminology. Sometimes, it just depends on how the admin UI has been configured.

Here are some tips for configuring Drupal so that content editors using your site will love Drupal!

If you're migrating or upgrading your site to Drupal's latest version, you'll be amazed by how many out-of-the-box modules are available.

That being said, there are still a set of handy contrib modules you'll probably use for most of your projects. This isn't a complete list, just a starting point for anyone new to Drupal looking for a useful set of modules to try. 

If you have ever worked with sites that deal with events, you've probably been asked to create some type of calendar display. In this article, we'll discuss how to set up a basic events calendar using the Calendar (8.x-1.x-dev) for Drupal.

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Our team realized that the most needed contribution to Drupal is also the most simple: thanking someone who has helped you. So we're handing out 1000 flowers at DrupalCon Baltimore.

A tutorial on migrating translated content from CSV, JSON, XML and other non-drupal sources to Drupal 8. This example uses the "migrate" module and data stored in CSV files.

A tutorial on migrating translated content from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 using the "migrate" module.